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Did Valve forbid reviewers from using eMMC?

Harlan
By Harlan
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Since Valve didn't provide anyone with the base model¹, do you think they also told reviewers to not install an eMMC SSD into it for testing?

 

Cloning to a smaller SSD isn't impossible, so why has nobody done it²? Yoinking one from a Chromebook should be pretty simple.

 

I ordered the etched glass one, but it'd still be interesting to see. If there wasn't some agreement to avoid it I imagine GN or LTT would have done this already.

 

¹ not that I know of

² I haven't really been digging through discord, so I could be wrong

 

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Taking a random EMMC from some other device would make no sense since that wouldn't say anything about the one that's going to come in the EMMC version of the SD...

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Folks speculate. I think it'd make sense because only cheap devices use those, even some cheap windows machines.

 

I can't imagine there's a massive difference between the best eMMC storage and the worst.

 

There aren't like 'gaming' eMMC chips afaik.

 

 

Dream-phone: USB type-c (3.1), 1440p, 5-inch, removable battery, 32gb RAMdrive, sd card slot, stock Android, transparent atomic purple build, 9050 mah battery, waterproof AF, nuclear powered, ac wifi is fine.
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