emmc vs NVMe real-world performances

[Henry]

Imho, you can get a decent boost in terms of performance and longevity from low-end flash such as eMMC/microSD by just using f2fs instead of ext4. Of course, no comparison to using a NVMe drive with ext4, but it might give you a sufficient boost in order to do your compilation/development stuff on eMMC. Have a look at these benchmarks:

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=a...tems&num=2

However, depending on the actual OS used, it must be noted that getting it installed using f2fs might not be straight-forward.

That makes a lot of sense! I use Manjaro for PBP and now I am wondering why it doesn't default to f2fs. I don't remember being given a choice by the installer either! I know Arch supports f2fs, so it should be possible on Manjaro as well.