jlauro on 26 March 2008
| Fastrabbit09 said: what are the benefits of an 8gb hard drive vs 8gb sd card? a) 8gb sd card is $28, so price hardly matters here b) flash drive is more stable...no moving parts to crash c) hard drive means u have to have room to put that hard drive in your entertainment center and like the looks of it d) hard drive means i have to tote that hdd around with me when i take my wii to a friend's house and we are asking for it to be ACTIVE space, so u don't have to load the info onto the wii..we want the sd card to act the same way as a hdd therefore, there is no difference when using them...the difference is having nothing external to the wii, no extra moving parts, no crashing hdd, no toting around extra equipment |
a. Generally agree. Obviously if you need lots of space HD are cheaper and can make a difference. Until massive wii games are available on wiiware, it's moot....
b. Actually, hard drives are significantly more stable for heavy I/O (especially when there is lots of updates). Flash drives have limitted write operations before they degrade, etc... Flash drives are getting fairly reliable with built in block redirection and internal RAID banks. etc., but not yet up to the stability of hard drives when there is lots of updates. (Nothing on the wii will require lots of updates, so this is moot too).
