SpokenTruth said:
That's already a false statement. There are now SSD's on the market at over 16 TB's. The largest mecahnical HDD is 10 TB. With stacked NAND cells (Samsung goes 48 layers deep on that 16 TB SSD), capacity of SDD's will easily exceed HDD's as a standard (which are requiring helium filled casings to reach 10 TB's).
DS, 3DS and Vita say otherwise.
Optical discs and Flash RAM are both 80's era technology. CD's first hit in 1982 and EEPROM in 1984.
The largest SD cards currently have a capacity of 512 GB. Crazier still is that it can be in the form of a micro SD card.
Actually, the N64 cartridges technically were Flash memory. They just used the NOR gate tehnology instead of modern Flash which used NAND gate technology. Your point remains, it's just interesting that they are technically the same thing.
Back then, yes. Far less price gap today. Though a gap does still exist. NOR flash memory as used in old N64 carts is expensive. NAND Flash memeory used in 3DS, Vita and memory cards is cheap.
And that they are. Prices are far closer than the old days of cart vs CD but discs are still cheaper to manufacture in bulk overall. |
That statement is not false, on the grand scheme of things how many PCs do you think are out there with 128/256gb SSD's and a massive standard HDD for storage? in comparison how many PC's do you think have 16TB SSDs in them? I would wager far far less than .1% would be the latter making the "almost always" statement perfectly true.
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