Sources: AMD Has Created Navi FOR Sony’s PlayStation 5.

[Trumpstyle]

Pemalite said:

Trumpstyle said:

Which mechanical disks? I have checked information about Hamr and Mamr Disks but I don't think they will be ready in time for next-gen. Predicting what hard drive ps5 will use is difficult. Eurogamer says mechanical drives are to slow and I have come to the conclusion that a hybrid solution with 1TB mechanical disk with 256GB ssd is useless.

Right now 1 TB SSD seems to the most reasonable guess what ps5 will launch with.

Too slow? Hardly.
The current crop of consoles are using spinners that are simply to slow. (I.E. 5400rpm drives.)

A decent mechanical quality disk can hit 215MB/s in sustained transfer rates... The Xbox One X struggles to even hit half that... The base Xbox One a third of that.

And a 1TB SSD? Really? Have you even thought about the cost involved? The ADATA 1TB SSD is the cheapest SSD I can find at $318 AUD. The Xbox One S is $288.
Do you see the problem there?
For comparative sake... A 1TB rust spinner is $55 AUD.
Or a 6TB rust spinner is $279 AUD.

It's like the Xbox Scorpio rumors all over again when everyone was claiming the Xbox One X was going to be pushing Ryzen and have an SSD. - It was never going to happen.
Cost. It's the consoles Achilles heel, only so much you can get into a low-cost box you know.

 

Only desktop mechanical drives can hit that speed and it's still too slow. But Sony will use an laptop drive anyway if they go for a mechanical disk and the disk xbox one x has is the fastest one (1tb seagate barracuda). I'm not sure why Sony/Microsoft won't go for a desktop disk, from what I read they just causes to much vibration for consideration, but not sure if it's the truth.

About SSDs, right now the cheapest one is 180$ at newegg for 1TB, and I'm assuming Sony buy their stuff for half the retail price. By the end of 2019 I'm sure 1TB SDD will cost under 100$ (retail price) making is a good choice for ps5.

My build for ps5 has 50$ for hard drive, 100$ for the APU, 100$ for RAM and 150$ the rest. So yes 1tb ssd is possible :)

https://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&N=100011693%20600414920%208000&IsNodeId=1&bop=And&order=PRICE&page=1

Right now 5 1tb ssds under 200$.

Last edited by Trumpstyle - on 27 June 2018