By: Jose (one.delete@this.two.com), April 18, 2019 2:33 am
Room: Moderated Discussions
Jose (one.delete@this.two.com) on April 17, 2019 10:00 pm wrote:
> sleep (sleep.delete@this.sogetthis.com) on April 16, 2019 11:04 pm wrote:
> > https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-sony-next-gen-console/
> >
> > PR blitz from Sony. Confirms Navi, Zen 2 and an SSD that "has
> > a raw bandwidth higher than any SSD available for PCs".
> >
> > I'm surprised at how hard they are selling faster storage. Are they actually planning on putting
> > a fast, high-capacity SSD in every console? Wouldn't that money be better spent on GPU power or
> > more/faster memory? Maybe someone who actually knows anything about games could chime in.
>
> Would it make sense for such a custom system to the NAND chips directly attached
> to the SoC? And a proper flash file system running on the CPU? That could be
> potentially faster than going through the NVME and NAND controller.
>
*to have the NAND*
> sleep (sleep.delete@this.sogetthis.com) on April 16, 2019 11:04 pm wrote:
> > https://www.wired.com/story/exclusive-sony-next-gen-console/
> >
> > PR blitz from Sony. Confirms Navi, Zen 2 and an SSD that "has
> > a raw bandwidth higher than any SSD available for PCs".
> >
> > I'm surprised at how hard they are selling faster storage. Are they actually planning on putting
> > a fast, high-capacity SSD in every console? Wouldn't that money be better spent on GPU power or
> > more/faster memory? Maybe someone who actually knows anything about games could chime in.
>
> Would it make sense for such a custom system to the NAND chips directly attached
> to the SoC? And a proper flash file system running on the CPU? That could be
> potentially faster than going through the NVME and NAND controller.
>
*to have the NAND*