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Barkley on 11 June 2019
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vivster said:
gergroy said:

No, I’m pretty sure they are going to use an ssd as their main storage.  They just also talked about using it as virtual ram as well.  With their focus being on reducing load times and the fact that Sony has already come out and said they are going to be using an ssd, it wouldn’t make sense for them to use a normal hard drive.  I admit that their phrasing was vague enough that I could be wrong, I’m guessing that is a very small chance.  

They won't. Just like the PS5 they will only use the SSD to cache things. The main storage of minimum 1TB will still be an HDD. It's not feasible yet for consoles to include 1TB+ SSDs for everything.

I'm not sure how that's going to work though? Wouldn't game load times only improve after you've been playing the game for a while? The content still has to be copied from the HDD to the SSD after all. If they had a 256gb ssd I guess that would be enough room to hold the most often accessed data from ~2tb of installed games, otherwise if it was small only the most recently installed/played games could be partially cached on the ssd.