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*That's much slower and higher latency than the internal storage.

And where do you plug in the extra RAM?

This thread is talking about HTPC, and I'm wondering what the use case is where you need lots of RAM and the speed/latency of an internal NVMe drive.

My HTPC is about 12 years old, and I'm pretty sure that the internal SATA SSDs are slower than a modern external USB3.1 drive. Yet it does everything I ask of it with no noticeable delay.

>This thread is talking about HTPC

No, the thread is not mentioning HTPCS but about NUCs, which can also be used to do productivity work/games, not just watching movies, so exqueeze me that I want/need a system with 16GB of RAM and some decent storage in mid-2023 to be productive and am not contempt with the bare minimums of 8GB/256 and being price gouged for any drop over that.

You are exqueezed. While the overall topic is about NUCs, this particular thread of conversation appeared, to me, to be about HTPCs. Nevertheless, the existence in the marketplace of computers with underwhelming specification does not in any way diminish your techno-self-worth or invalidate your needs and desires.

Not if you use Thunderbolt 4 SSD (enclosure)

Yes, spend $600 on an base iMac Mini then spend $800 on an TB SSD with $200 worth of NVME inside it because ... logic ???

Meanwhile a 12th-Gen NUC with 16GB RAM and 500GB SSD costs ~$240 on Amazon, and you can replace the internal RAM and SSD with whatever size and models you want.

A 1 TB NVME SSD is like $40 retail these days.

He said external TB SSDs not USB SSDs. Check how much those cost. TB SSD of 4TB is like $1000.

Hold on a sec. I said enclosure such as https://www.amazon.com/USB4-Enclosure-40Gbps-Compatible-Thun... Then you can put whatever nvme ssd you want. It'll most likely cost around $500 at most.

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