SvennoJ on 05 November 2017
What's holding current consoles back from making more use out of SSDs?
I wonder why the gains are generally pretty small compared to HDD. The 5400 rpm drive in the consoles probably don't do more than 80 MB/s. an SSD should be at least 3 times faster even on Sata 2. Load times are faster, yet not that much faster.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-ps4-pro-ssd-upgrade-does-sata-3-make-a-difference
Some games do load almost twice as fast though, others hardly benefit.
If HDDs are still the cheaper option I hope there will be 2 SKUs at launch. SSD option next to HDD. Although that might be confusing to the average consumer, 500GB SSD for 499, 2TB HDD for 399 at launch.
