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drkohler said:
Trumpstyle said:

Did you miss this in the article? "like the PS5, it will ditch the spinning hard drive for a solid-state drive." There is no ANCIENT drive in the next-gen console.

The way Marc Cerny describes the inner workings of the next generation of software is precisely, and I mean PRECISELY, how a large hd behind a superfast ssd could work. I mean it is PRECISELY how an engineer would describe the system without giving away too much information. In a nutshell, you install your game on a large hd once and then have the key parts only install (from the hd as many times as you want) on a superfast ssd.

There is also this old insider rumour about the devkit mainboard which meticulously lists the components on it. It PRECISELY describes such a system of superfast ssd as the front end. If someone made all that up (and it does not forget to list a single part that is required for such a system) it was a lot of work for something that few people actually seem to grasp.

So which one is it? We don't know. Those people who dream of a 2GByte superfast ss should just check current prices, they range from $500 to $1200. Could a 1TByte superfast ssd (still expensive as hell when manufacturing a console, storage should not exceed 10% of your total budget) be enough? People have been complaining about the 1TByte PS4 drive as being too small for ages now. Do you really risk to start a new generation with a puny 1TByte drive (which isn't even 1TByte, binary speaking).

Sounds like a nightmare to make this work for a small team



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