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Zappykins said: [...] If you look at the schematic here. Notice on the bottom left, past the Bluray and the 500GB Hard Drive, there is a little box saying 8GB Flash. I haven't found any conformation yet that this is being used as a Solid State Drive, but seems to be a reasonable assumption. What else would it be? So there is an extra 8GB of rather fast memory on board. Sounds like some rumors we heard before might have a factual component to them. [...] |
I wouldn't call it a SSD, as SSDs usually have complex controllers. This is an eMMC 4.5 device which uses a standardized controller (see: http://www.jedec.org/news/pressreleases/jedec-announces-publication-e-mmc-standard-update-v45 ). There is no real criterion at what point a flash based device starts to be a SSD, but imho at least 2 flash chips (operating in parallel) are required.
