Why NS 128GB SD is better than Xbox/PS 500GB HDD.

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FunFan said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Hmm well... I don't know if the casual consumer is educated enough to know the difference between a SSD and a hard drive. So idk if that will be a good idea regardless of cost.

If everything goes well, you might not need to. SDDs are eventually going to kill HDDs for good in the mainstream market. And some say it will happen sooner than later. Here's a nice read on Samsungs opinion on the matter. http://www.tomshardware.com/news/samsung-ssd-hdd-sata-nvme,32762.html It might seem long so you can just scroll down to the HDD part :)

Yea but the issue will still be this:

"Samsung predicts that the price of a 256GB SSD will sink beneath 1TB HDDs in mid-2017, and 512GB will follow in 2020."

If a 512 gb ssd takes until 2020 in order to go below the price of a 1TB hard drive. I think it will take 5-6 years at a minimum until we see SSDs replacing most hard drives. Because most causals that I have delt with look at the space and the cost and go with that. They don't understand that SSDs are faster, they just think, oh I can store more movies into this one and it is cheaper.

So I think when the NX2 comes around, it might be viable.