Hard Drive Installs Take 2: The future and the present motivations for MS.

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Squilliam said:

Lone_Canis_Lupus said:

Nickelbackro said:
Read all of that and it makes sense. Memory and Data Transfer will be a problem. However if i may be bold maybe the solution is in games on cartridges in combination with internal flash memory instead of optical storage and mechanical HDD. However this will all depend on whether the proprietary carts can be made cheap enough.

 

That's the thing. Flash would be a very very nice way to go, but the downside to it is how expensive it can be to produce flash with large storage space. With optical media and hard drives you can have larger storage at a cheaper price, but at the cost of speed. While it's the complete opposite with Flash.

 

 One great thing about Flash is that the cost goes down much more quickly than HDD cost as the process nodes shrink and you can get more space on the same quantity of silicon or use less silicon for the same quantity of space.

Then it would probably be a good thing to push flash to the point it will get just as cheap as optical media. I doubt the industry is willing to make such a big shift. It would be an awesome thing to see though.