Next Gen Tech (NGT): STORAGE

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Intrinsic said:

Pemalite said:

Your discussion is not really about storage. It is about interfaces that storage typically (not always) use.

Sata is also not "up to" 500MB/s.
Sata 3.2 is actually up to "1969MB/s." (16Gbits)

Sata 3 tops out at 600MB/s.
Sata 2 tops out at 300MB/s.
Sata 1 tops out at 150MB/s.

If they retain their use of mechanical disks... Then outside of burst speeds (Aka. Data loading from a Hard Drives cache to Ram), you will not see a difference between Sata 2's 300MB/s and Sata 3.2's 1969MB/s.

I am aware that I focused on interfaces... I said that in the thread. I did it that way because the intrfaces I described are the most common or likely things we would find in the new consoles. And they are what will determine what kinda storage solution we will use. Which brings us back to storage.

I am also aware of SATA express or SATA3.2, but you and I both know thats not going to end up being in the new consoles. There are very few consumer devices that even uses it today and they have been around for a good while now.

Thanks for your input though, and that is what this thread is for. 

my guess we are gonna stick to SATA 3 as we use now (don't know where your 500MB/s came from? since that is not a theoretical max on any of the SATA standards) but move over to disks (SSD) that actually can cap the interface. since you gain nothing form just expanding max bandwidth if the hardware (in this case, harddrive) can't push data fast enough to cap it.

what we are doing now in consoles is sticking a 60-80MB/s mechanical harddrive on a 600MB/s bus.. it is slower than it could be even if we just stick to todays tech.

Answer: SSD's on SATA interface. good price/performance compromise