| shikamaru317 said: Don't get me wrong, I'd love to see PS5 and XB4 at least use SATA based SSD's if not PCI-e based SSD's. I'll just be amazed if they do it. If you follow along the cost per GB curve on SSD's over the past few years and use that to project the price per GB in 2020, I'm pretty sure that 2 TB SSD's are still $200 or more, and 1 TB won't really be big enough with many games exceeding 100 GB next gen. MS and Sony have both shown this gen that they're no longer as willing to sell at a loss as they were in the past, and I don't see them going above $500 at launch, not after the flak Sony received for the $600 PS3 at launch. Maybe they'll use SSHD's at launch and then switch to SSD's with their first refresh 2-3 years later, but if they do that it'll screw over early adopters because the devs will start coding their games to work better on SSD's, which will make load times atrocious on the launch models with the SSHD's. It's really a losing scenario for either the consumer or Sony/MS no matter how you look at it. |
There are ways around that though. Every console could ship with a M.2 Nvme 480GB drive. And then have support for external HDDs on day one. Hell those launch consoles could even have an empty drive bay to slot in an "expansion drive" of the sata variant. But from day one the option will be there to just swapout your M.2 drive for a bigger one if you want. But if you don't but need more space you could always throw in a 2TB sata drive in your console or just connect one externally.
Any of those options will be a thousand times better than shipping the consoles with only a SATA interface. Cause at best what that gives you in optimal conditions is around 500MB/s+ speeds. At BEST. and thats if you are lucky and also if you are using an SSD. A lot of ifs.... and as I said earlier... that puts them in this weird place where they are the only OEMs using that kinda tech.
Another twist on that is, if it seems it makes sense to go with an SSD of the SATA variant, then they might as well just make the consoles with a M.2 interface and slap in a SATA 3 level SSD in there. they are much cheaper than the NvME variant and it ensures future proofing as any user can swap that out and put in a higher performing drive in there. It also allows them have native support for such an upgrade from day one instead of this hit and miss thing we have going on now.
| Bajablo said: what?! :S jiesh.. yeah, i guess they skimp on something to make it that price.. but god damn.. that is just dissapointing.. |
Yup... apparently, making a board with a SATA3 bus or even a PCIE bus costs a marginally more than making one with a SATA2 bus.
