By: Doug S (foo.delete@this.bar.bar), April 17, 2019 10:28 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
anon (spam.delete.delete.delete@this.this.this.spam.com) on April 17, 2019 9:44 am wrote:
> I'd look at this from a different perspective. There will at the very least be 1 TB version
> or it would be a downgrade. I think it's safe to assume that there will b a 2 TB version.
> Think about what a 2 TB NVMe SSD that's actually faster than a SATA SSD (so not just a shitty 300 MB/s
> 20k IOPS SSD with NVMe tacked on) costs. You can't spend >200$ on storage for a 400$ console.
> Similarly I don't think it'll be 8 TB HDD + SSD.
What a 2 TB NVMe SSD costs is irrelevant, what 2 TB of NAND costs at the time Sony begins shipments is all that matters. Sony can easily afford to design/license a custom controller chip that interfaces NAND soldered to the board to PCIe 4.0 traces from the CPU with very high efficiency since a games console is basically an embedded system and the full NVMe stack would be overkill.
> I'd look at this from a different perspective. There will at the very least be 1 TB version
> or it would be a downgrade. I think it's safe to assume that there will b a 2 TB version.
> Think about what a 2 TB NVMe SSD that's actually faster than a SATA SSD (so not just a shitty 300 MB/s
> 20k IOPS SSD with NVMe tacked on) costs. You can't spend >200$ on storage for a 400$ console.
> Similarly I don't think it'll be 8 TB HDD + SSD.
What a 2 TB NVMe SSD costs is irrelevant, what 2 TB of NAND costs at the time Sony begins shipments is all that matters. Sony can easily afford to design/license a custom controller chip that interfaces NAND soldered to the board to PCIe 4.0 traces from the CPU with very high efficiency since a games console is basically an embedded system and the full NVMe stack would be overkill.
