| KBG29 said: I can get on board with on board storage =). I have no problem grabbing USB3.1 Gen 2 extrenal SSD to expand the storage. If they left an open M.2 NVMe slot inside similar to the PS2's HDD bay, that would be the ultimate to me. Having some form of Soild State Storage in PS5 is IMO the most important next gen feature. HDD's have been to slow for 2 generations now, it is time we get rid of that bottleneck. |
Its just that m.2 ssds will not be beneficial to consoles. So it makes no sense that they add it in.
Games aren't being bottle necked by the speeds of SATA 3 SSDs. Say a HDD takes 20 secs to load al the assets of a level in a game. Switching rom that (~150MB/s) to an SSD (~500MB/s) could drop that to around 10 secs. If we put in an M.2 nvme SSD (~2000MB/s) we only see those speeds improve by about 1/2 secs.... why?
Thats because the SATA SSD was not limited by its speed to begin with. Its limited by its seek times which is basically identical to that of an m.2 drive.
