| D-Joe said: It doesn't,and even this rumored spec are 100% true,it still ready to support SATA 3,not 2 Right only very few SSD can reach SATA 2 limit,but it's not like MS only sold Durango for 2.5years then suddenly stop it,yeah,we don't need SATA 3 now,but no one knows future |
SATA 2 seems like a huge oversight for a high-end console that's sticking around for 6-8 years. Even now modern SSDs are coming very close to 600MB/sec SATA 3 limits, which means they'd be completely bottlenecked by SATA 2.
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But if MS sticks with their idiotic policy of proprietary HDDs, then it's a moot point anyway if the HDDs they sell for Xbox 720 are mechanical ones. If Sony's PS4 allows for the same level of flexibility as PS3 did in terms of HDD swapping, then SATA 3 support on PS4 will be a lot more important than SATA 3 support on Xbox 720. The proprietary nature of MS's HDD solution could mean no advantages offered by SATA 3 in terms of performance unless mechanical drives were to get to 300MB/sec reads/writes in the next 6-7 years (and looking at how slowly they have evolved in the last 10 years, it doesn't look like that's going to happen anyway). I think if you want to use very fast HDD sub-system, PS4 will be the only way to go anyway.
