| exdeath said: Even NAND flash, especially in SATA form factors, is just a stop gap bandaid. |
So we agree that SSDs or other kinds of flash memory aren't much helping to speed up the process of (mostly sequential) data transfer in affordable home consoles so far.
So what is your solution for an affordable home console without any loading times? 20 - 50 GB RAM drives?
And even if someone of you has a 1-GigaBit-internet connection (which still costs a fortune) and is only available in very few towns around the world... that's still only 125 MegaByte... so it would be in the same ballpark as a "garbage" HDD inside a home console.
As long as any "solution" with more speed than an HDD is disproportional much more expensive, HDDs still have their raison d'être... or as said in German "ihre Daseinsberechtigung".
If not, please let us participate in your almighty wisdom and tell us your solution for fast but still affordable mass storage.
