| greenmedic88 said:
Compared to a 2.5" 500GB 5600 rpm HDD that costs $50 with a data transfer rate of between 100-200 MB/s? It isn't a comparison by any measure. You're trying to compare a 15MB/s 64GB card with 100MB/s 500 GB HDD at less than half the price ($113 vs about $50). One third the price of the 25MB/s card, which still has only 1/4 th the transfer speed. If you think 64 GB UHS-2 cards will exist in 2012 with data transfer rates of over 100MB/s for under $50, by all means, feel free to chime in now, but even if they matched the bandwidth of current common 2.5" 5600 rpm HDDs, which in the same time frame will be 1TB for the same price or much less for a 500 GB HDD, you're still comparing a 64GB storage device with a 500-1000 GB storage device. Even a comparable capacity 64 GB SATA-3 SSD is currently cheaper with far faster transfer speeds. While it's entirely possible I'M being the irrational one here, I'd rather have a 128-256GB SATA-3 SSD for "$50" if anyone actually believes NAND flash memory is going to be that cheap in another year than a 64GB UHS-2 SD card with a transfer rate that barely matches current HDDs with a fraction of the storage capacity. |
Uh, I wasn't arguing the merits of SD over HDD, I was just letting you know your benchmarks for SD were already outdated. SD technology moves fast, which was sort of my point.
Personally yes, I'd rather take a USB HDD standard, or have Nintendo just stick in a notebook HDD bay. The storage is cheaper, bigger, faster, and will remain that way. Of course that doesn't mean SD doesn't have it's own advantages (it's portable, it's durable, it's reliable, it's ubiquitous) or that it won't work fine for what Nintendo wants with Cafe (probably max 2-4GB files for DLC, patches, DD games, etc, no DD service for retail games). And beyond that, we don't know if they'll support USB or not even, you can't really even rule out HDD support yet.
Of course above all I'd rather have any set industry standard than an overpriced proprietary solution, or a closed internal drive. If you want to get a 250GB 360 drive, it costs about "$50" twice over depending on what sales you hit. When I bought my 360's 120GB HDD (upgrading from the measly 20GB it came with) it cost me almost $200. Compared to that, I think I can swing a 64GB SDXC in a year or two without much pain. Hell, I'll probably already have a spare one that came with a camera or DVR or something. ;)
