Nintendo files patent for motion control portable

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shams said:

wangfoo said:

HappySqurriel said:
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Depending on what formats appear in 5 years, thats a possibility. HVD shows prospects of reaching about 4TB, and BRD should be able to hit around 200GB.

As for speed, a 300x flash drive is roughly eqivalent to a 1x speed Blu Ray drive. Hardly the speed demon. It will get faster with maturation, but in terms of speed, and capacity, optical media will outpace it for years to come.

Where do you get this from?

Just checkec Wikipedia:

BluRay - 36Mbit/sec (4.5 MB/sec)

Flash drives/USB keys:

    Old - 1MB/sec

    New/current - 10-30MB/sec

    Future (spec'd) - 60MB/sec

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No question that optical discs are the way to go re: huge storage space. But they generally suck in terms of read/write speed. 

 

Whoops missed the lowercase b. The general rule of thumb for flash is this - if its a small read or write, its better. If its a sustained read or write, its speed will be lessened.

As for a faster sustained read though (since I forgot how pitifully slow BRDs were, see Oblivion) HVD, as mentioned before, has a sustained of 125MB/s, which is faster than most, if not all, hard drives.