exdeath said:
To me a storage device is useless if I die of old age before I can fill it back it up. Ever timed how long it takes to fill or empty 3 TB of data over 10s of thousands of files? It won't even saturate USB 2.0 at 25 MB/sec let alone USB 3.0 or SATA 6G. That is a realm exclusive to SSD. Sure I have to reinstall something from time to time but when it takes me 30 seconds to restore a partition backup instead of 30+ mins who cares. Coping data from hard drive to hard drive reminds of recording tape to tape in an old cassette deck. Sure you can hit 100 MB/sec if you have 1 giant 3 TB file but that isn't the real world, random access is, and you'll be hard pressed to saturate a USB 2.0 link with a mechanical drives sustained random access throughput. HDDS suck. It's time they just go away. Reel to reel, 8 track, cassette, VHS, floppies, HDDs, all the same 5 decade old "technology" of laying down magnetic tracks and only one of them refuses to die. We just need better storage devices. Even the 1-2 GB/sec of non SATA limited NAND Flash SSDs is still far from the almost 300 GB/sec of GDDR5 but its a still way better than 0.1 GB/sec or god forbid 10s of kilobytes per second that hard drives drop to under heavy random access loads. I know gobs of storage is a relatively new thing to console gamers and it doesn't quite have the same impact in a console (yet) with the way images are packed for sequential access and unpacking but in the PC world HDDs are dinosaurs and no longer belong in anything. My last desktop was a 2.5 GB/sec SSD RAID on a home LAN built on 10 gigabit Infiniband. Forgive me if I'm an I/O snob. But this kilobytes and megabytes per second nonsense has to stop. And it won't stop as long as we continue to believe that passing slow moving magnetic material under a moving loop of wire is still a valid data storage technique in the 21st century all because that particular dated method allows people to hoard data they will probably never even access again. |
Sure SSD is faster and its good for games or in pc , good for fast boot of the OS. HOwever you have to bare in mind the cost of 1tb SSD is not worth it. I for one can buy a 980 cheaper then 1tb SSD in nz or i can buy 3 XO or 3 ps4 for the price. In terms of HDD i have mentioned i can get 5 3tb hard drives. i rather have quantity then slightly faster load times . waiting for few more seconds wont harm what you have to do in a single day. Therefore its not practical to wast such a large amount of money to get a faster load times , unless you have money to burn. I got a top end gaming pc and still use a normal standard HDD. In fact i have 3.5 tb worth of it and i can easily fill that up in a year or two. For gaming this generation , 3tb is easily. i have one for XO and i am close to 40% of it . Thats not true, on my XO i have access to all my gaems thanks to that method and its nice knwoign that its there aond i dont have to reload them. After a hard theys work , all i want to do is turn my machine on , click the game i have and play. i am not spedn the only time i have , makign sure i have enough space to play it , think of what game i have to delete and then wait for it to reinstall. its just a hassle and an unecessary time waster. It may take 1 min bbut you haev to decide which gaems to delete and if you keep deleting and reinstall then that 30 secs or 1 min will acccumlate , wheres if you spend that oen 20 min to install a game, you dont hav eot ever waste tiem or think about what to delete. Just one click and you are in. simple as that
