Jose (one.delete@this.two.com) on April 18, 2019 3:33 am wrote:
> 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*

You mean use raw NAND chips? There certainly are opportunities there. I guess they'll have to do their sums on yields and costs on having a separate controller, I wouldn't have thought that it would be much faster, NAND is pretty slow.