Pemalite said:
sc94597 said:
The fastest consumer SD cards widely available have read speeds of 300 MBPS. That is double a decent 7200 RPM HDD and roughly comparable to older SATA SSD's. Plenty fine for gaming. Especially since texture quality is going to be low-medium on this due to other bottlenecks.
I don't see why this would be a huge problem. You could also get top-HDD level SD cards with read speeds of about 100-170 MBPS. After a quick search I found a 512 Gb with 170 MBps read speeds for $164.99 or a 512 Gb with 100 MBps read speeds for $69.99.
That is currently. This isn't releasing until December, and probably will be on the market for many years to come. Storage prices are still falling over time.
Besides with a dock, I am guessing you can attach external SSDs. Switch out games you are playing portably which have longer load times to the internal memory, and games with shorter load times to the SD.
And then there is the matter of repacks of cracked games, which probably will inevitably happen.
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Keep in mind Mbps is based on bits, not bytes.
In saying that... UHS-II cards allow for a maximum transfer speed of 312 MB/s, which is definitely shitting on those older SLC SSD's from over a decade ago.
UHS-I is 104MB/s which is still more than enough.
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Right, but MBps is bytes not bits which was the standard unit I was comparing in my original post, hence I capitalized the acronym. The first SSD I had in a PC was in 2015, a Sandisk Ultra II SSD III drive with a max read speed of 550 MBps. I assumed that 300 MBps would've been what earlier SSDs than that were doing. Looking at the SLC SSD's you're referencing, like the Intel X-25E series, read speeds were around 250 MBps, still faster than a 7200 RPM HDD.
Either way, I agree with your main point, even 100 MBps is plenty enough if the drive/card is healthy, which is much more likely with flash memory than mechanical memory.
