Combining eMMC for fast, on-device processing and another storage like Universal Flash Storage (UFS) for higher bandwidth applications will become more common, providing an optimal balance of speed, ...

The Steam Deck's various price tiers come with other non-storage-related benefits, but going from the base model's 64GB of slow eMMC storage to a 256GB SSD still costs at least $130.

The Orange Pi 5 Pro supports up to 16GB of LPDDR5 memory and in addition to support for an SSD and/or eMMC storage, there’s a microSD card reader and optional support for SPI NOR flash storage.

The least expensive one ($399) comes with 64GB of eMMC storage is not affected by this. The two NVMe SSD models—256GB ($529) and 512GB ($649)—both potentially are affected by the change in specs.