By: Aaron Spink (aaronspink.delete@this.notearthlink.net), April 18, 2019 3:36 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
anon (spam.delete.delete.delete@this.this.this.spam.com) on April 18, 2019 3:16 pm wrote:
> Hybrid would work just fine and be better for random reads and writes.
>
There are basically only seq wr, seq rd, random rd. Random writes basically don't exist for consoles.
> So 550$ for an 8TB model? Yeah, still don't think that's likely.
>
Not really, we're already had console pushing that price and that would be a high end model.
> Is it actually confirmed that it's a monolithic SoC? Is Sony going to pay extra
> to remove SATA capabilities from the multi-purpose PHYs? That sounds dumb.
>
PHYs don't matter here, its the actual SATA controller that matters. And realistically, I would assume that they'll use a CPU die from Rome and a custom I/O + CPU die.
> Hybrid would work just fine and be better for random reads and writes.
>
There are basically only seq wr, seq rd, random rd. Random writes basically don't exist for consoles.
> So 550$ for an 8TB model? Yeah, still don't think that's likely.
>
Not really, we're already had console pushing that price and that would be a high end model.
> Is it actually confirmed that it's a monolithic SoC? Is Sony going to pay extra
> to remove SATA capabilities from the multi-purpose PHYs? That sounds dumb.
>
PHYs don't matter here, its the actual SATA controller that matters. And realistically, I would assume that they'll use a CPU die from Rome and a custom I/O + CPU die.