Do you agree? There are also phones (motorola edge 50 pro) running UFS 2.2 that equal if not surpass phones running UFS 3.1 in file transfers and random read/write tests.
I think the impact is small due to encryption, the processor used and the file system optimisation that the OEM does. I remember the Nexus 6 where Full Disk Encryption was a controversial topic because it slowed down the Nexus considerably.
Here’s a short video from a youtuber who does a basic test for the Edge 50 pro: https://youtube.com/shorts/EunkoOKhpuk?si=xJBwmltFLNuslyOs
And another from a different youtuber: https://youtu.be/HjVBuZfw3VQ?si=5VxbRYM3pjnQoDd-&t=52
any efficiency gain outside a bottleneck doesn’t effect the end result at all: if you make things more efficient before the bottleneck, things just pile up before; if you make things more efficient after the bottleneck your resources are just waiting for work
in the context of storage, this means that if you don’t have hardware capable of using the data provided by the storage controller, or flash capable of feeding it then really there’s no point in having it
battery efficiency is of course cumulative, but as the author points out… meh; this is a drop in the ocean