Optical drives need to be kicked to the curb! Flash is the next-gen future.

[scottie]

Squilliam said:

• 1/50th the latency of optical media, 0.2 MS vs 10 MS for most optical drives.

 

Student's nitpicking time.

 

What you just wrote then reads

 

1/50th the latency of optical media, 0.2 Mega Seconds vs 10 Mega Seconds for most optical drives.

 

A Mega second is 1000 seconds. That's a lot of latency. To be honest I thought flash drives would have a latency closer to 0.2 mS, which is 1 millionth of what you said it is.

 

Anyway, I'm not entirely sure what you're suggesting, there are a few ways flash could be used for games

If you're meaning USB sticks, then you won't get great read speeds or latency, if you're meaning an internal flash drive, then consoles would be very pricey