Next Gen Tech (NGT): STORAGE

[EricHiggin]

Pemalite said: 

EricHiggin said:

 If PS5 launched in 2020, and PS could use a 4TB HDD, that only cost them $30 per unit, would they use it? No, because that HDD would be so slow it's not funny, not to mention 5 or 6 years down the road. Waiting until some of the newer tech has come down into console price range, is what would be necessary, so you either launch PS5 sooner, or you launch another PS4 with the same old tech on a smaller node, and wait a little longer.

A 4 Terabyte Hard Drive doing 200MB/s+ sustained with a small 500MB/s cache drive isn't what I would consider slow for next gen consoles.

Fact is... Mechanical disks are here to stay, they are economical for the short and long term.

Depends on what that next gen tech and price is exactly in 2020. If you take into account that all we got at the PS4 launch was 500GB of mass storage, there is no reason to assume that PS or XB will shoot for 4TB-8TB of mass storage next gen. XB1X is supposed to be a 4k machine and they went for HDD speed not storage space.

If a 1TB or 2TB SSD was available in time for that 2020 launch, at a reasonable price that fit the budget, do to a mass manufacturing contract with PS (and/or XB), I see no reason why PS/XB wouldn't use it. Being able to slap SSD on the specs is easy and gives the console more street cred right off the bat. If PS really cared about storage space, they would have used a 3.5" 1TB HDD at launch, which would have cost less per HDD than the 2.5" they used, but it didn't fit the console shell form factor. Personally I think 1TB or 2TB would be skimping on the storage space next gen, but I can see PS doing it.

Just another reason why I initially said guessing what the mass storage solution is going to be next gen, is a really tricky one right now. It makes for good discussion because the possiblities are many, but we know so little right now that coming up with a reasonable guess is quite unlikely.