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Werix357 on 13 March 2019
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Pemalite said:

Werix357 said:

Yeah I think including a SSD would drive up the price to high I just hope they the hardware is made with option to upgrade to m.2 SSD's 3000mb/s would help remove most loading and I imagine open world games would less of a technical challenge.

Well... We are also on the cusp of next-generation mechanical hard drives right now... Drives with heat-assisted magnetic recording, helium... And/or Multiple actuators and can do 500MB/s or more in sustained transfers.

Whether next-gen will leverage that remains to be seen... But even improving over the base Xbox One/Playstation 4's archaic, slow and terrible 5400rpm 500GB drives (That generally do 60-80MB/s) is probably not a hard ask even with budget drives.

Yeah 5400rpm or 7200rpm HDD's are just very slow by todays standard Sony could put a hybrid drive in the PS5 they are much more cost effective.

I have not heard anything about these newer mechanical hard drives, but good to see there is some still looking to improve on the magnetic storage system as i think has yet to reach it's full potential.