So... Why everybody complains so much about Wii U's hard drive and not the PS4 one?

[Torillian]

Normchacho said:

Pemalite said:

Flash is cheaper.
It also allows much faster access times, it also uses less power, takes up less space, produces less heat, produces less noise and is more reliable. (Due to NOT having a disc rotating at 5-7 of thousand times a second.)

Those are the advantages which obviously out-weighed the cons at the time of design. (Bandwidth, capacity.)

Still think the USB ports should have been USB 3.0 though for super fast external storage.

Yeah? A 5400 rpm drive rotates 5,000 times a second?

and no, Flash memory is much more expensive per gig than an hdd.

The 5-7 thousand times a second thing looked kinda crazy to me too and I was curious if that was accurate.  300,000 rpm is nothing to sneeze at, although my only experience with those numbers is using research centrifuges.