Windows 10: eMMC performance and durability

I'm curious about the growing crop of ultra low-end laptops, tablets, and convertibles which use eMMC for the system drive. My understanding is that this is basically a more mature type of flash storage - essentially an SD card soldered to the motherboard - interfaced in such a way as to make the OS see it as a fixed drive. This approach seemed to work well on smaller devices like smartphones that are not constantly writing to the system drive ... but Windows?

Background: I have long been enamored with portable applications (PortableApps) - software that can run without installation, and leaving little-to-no trace on the host system. The prototype use of this type of software is to run the apps directly from a USB flash drive. The traditional caution is to reduce operations that write to that flash drive. Too many write operations on a slow storage device will bog things down, and will eventually slow down and wear out the flash drive. So if you're using a portable web browser, for instance, you want to turn off the web page cache so that things run totally in RAM.

Similarly if you're running an OS on a flash drive (e.g. Windows To Go ... or anything else [Linux, etc]) you also want to minimize write operations to the booted drive. Turn off the pagefile, scheduled defrag, and so forth.

Which brings me back to this whole idea of running Windows on a laptop which uses eMMC as the system drive. Bearing in mind everything above - how do these actually perform, and how do they get away with it? Windows is CONSTANTLY writing to the system drive: registry changes, logs, system events, pagefile (indeed, on a machine having only 2GB RAM) - you name it.

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Case Durability

When I had the Lumia 1020 the wireless charging cover protected mine from damage that would have destroyed the screen without it. My phone still took a bit of damage, scuffs on the camera bezel, dents on the plastic but without it I probably would have
faced a massive repair bill.

 

Case Durability

I just recently purchased my wife the Nokia Lumia 1020 and was looking at the charge and camera grip cases. My question is this; how well do these cases protect the phone in the event of it falling to the earth? As a long-time cell phone user, I know that
this tends to happen, which is why we always get a protective case for our phones. Will the cases for the 1020 suffice, or should I get a cheap rubbery one that will protect the phone while eliminating the usefulness of the wireless charging capabilities?



Side note; I just ordered myself the Nokia Lumia 810...are there wireless charge cases available for that phone as well? Most that I've seen are for the 820, and while the two are very similar, they're not the exact same, and anything I've seen for the
810 looks like it's actually built for the 820.



Thanks,

Christopher