| KBG29 said: There won't be a proper next gen until we SSD becomes cheap enough. HDD's are not fast enough to facilitate the amount of RAM we need, and the streaming speeds we will need for next gen games. SSD capacity is going to make gigantic leaps in going forward, and as we start getting 64TB, 128TB, 256TB, 512TB, and 1PB drives, the prices for 8GB, 16GB, and 32GB drives will drop rapidly. Everything lines up very well for a next gen in about ~2022. We will have he CPU, GPU, RAM, and Storage requirements required to deliver a solid next gen experience, and not just a more polished PS4/XB1 experience. |
Well. Yes and no.
Western Digital Black 6TB is able to do almost 220MB/s in sustained transfers.
Which means it would take 1 minute, 13 seconds to fill up 16GB.
Where mechanical disks truly tank and SSD's shine however is the random reads/writes... 2MB random reads that same drive will drop to about 80MB/s... Which means it would take 3 minutes, 20 seconds.
Good thing not all transfers will be random reads.
Mechanical disks will be fine for next gen if they are fast mechanical disks... This console generation we were using very slow drives, the Xbox One/Playstation 4 launch mechanical disks were probably 1/3rd this speed at peak rates.
Plus mechanical disks will keep improving untill next gen drops.
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