A recent LinkedIn post from a former employee suggests that the new Xbox’s solid state drive may be only half the speed of the PlayStation 5’s.
The post came from a former employee of Phison, who claims that he designed the SSD controller to be used in the upcoming Xbox console. According to the post, the Xbox Series X will use a Phison PS5019-E19T, which has maximum sequential read speeds of 3.7 GB/s and write speeds of 3 GB/s:
Sony is planning to use a Samsung SSD and controller; if it is comparable to the new 980 Pro, it may have maximum sequential read speeds of over 6 GB/s. This is several dozen times faster that the PS4’s default 5400 RPM drive.
It remains to be seen whether the PS5’s faster SSD will give it much of a real-life advantage over the Xbox Series X.
Another recent post has possibly revealed the reason for the Xbox’s refrigerator-like size. Images of a prototype console suggest that it may have an internal power supply unit, negating the need for a power brick. The power supply would require extra cooling and better airflow, which is easier to achieve with a larger console:
I love how SSD’s are suddenly something special and new in the console world, they have been around in the normal consumer market for what, like a decade now? Just buy a pc, you will have a much better time.
My Ryzen PC is running multiple m.2 SSDs at 15GB/s in raid 0, which is overkill unless you’re doing something enterprise related. Read/write speeds and IOPS stopped being a bottleneck for games years ago, so I don’t really mind the downgrade. I usually end up buying all platforms anyway as I don’t like missing out on exclusives.
I think its amazing how AMD suddenly leaped ahead of Intel but with a fraction of the R&D budget. These Ryzen processors are faster than what Intel has on the market and are a lot cheaper & have a small process Node. By the time Intel finally hits 7nm AMD will be on 5nm(Zen 4) lol.
Every time when console world have something new and another wave of console retards who have no idea about technology trying to tell PC people about their latest thingy that they just learn about yesterday.
They also tend to tell PC gaming is dying, and they’ve been saying that some 20 years by now.
A decade? You are behind the times. SSD’s have been around for nearly three decades now.
>in the normal consumer market
wHaT?!?! nO lOaDInG sCrEeNs??? THIS IS THE FUTURE!!!
No, this is the past!
Cartridge consoles had already achieved that feat.
That was actually part of the conversation in the mid 90s about cartridges vs. discs. Cartridges were touted on the merits of their durability and near-zero load times, plus they were harder to pirate. However, they were expensive to produce (which also meant the games cost more for customers), took longer to produce, and the console maker held sole control over manufacturing the carts.
Discs meanwhile had the advantage of low costs and high capacity. A CD could hold ten times as much data as the largest N64 carts, yet the cost to manufacture one was one-tenth that of a cartridge. Also, nobody held a monopoly on disc production. However, discs had long load times, especially back then, plus they were easy to damage if they weren’t properly handled.
Ultimately, third parties felt that the high capacity and low cost of discs was a better deal. They were more able to make the kind of games they wanted, and it was less costly for them. The durability and lack of load times of cartridges did not outweigh the economical aspects. Nintendo lost a ton of third-party support to Sony, the PlayStation won that generation by a huge margin, and cartridges haven’t been a thing for home consoles since.
I wish someone would develop a USB cartridge for PC, not a USB drive that uses shitty flash memory which is already available, but instead like a Switch cartridge that can connect to PC via USB, that way developers wouldn’t be able to use the line that “people don’t have optical drives anymore” (even though the industry brainwashed people into making that happen, external disc drives exist) as an excuse to not give their games physical releases.
It still wouldn’t be as good as disc since optical media is still the king of data storage in terms of longevity but it would be much better than shitty flash memory and being charged for a license to download. They could release physical copies with the game on disc AND the theoretical USB ROM just like movies come with the movie on 4k UHD Blu-ray and Blu-ray or on DVD and blu-ray and sometimes all 3.
Thanks for beta testing it, PCunt.
Don’t mention it.
Enjoy a decade old technology that now become cheap and available for console peasants.
We’re talking about pcie ssds and not sata though
For game it’s doesn’t matter both NVMe and SATA still 1 or 2 seconds load time apart at most.
Current gen and next gen consoles are PCs right down to architecture (as they always have been).
Well duh they’re using customize AMD APUs. In the case of the PS5/XboxSX they’re using a custom AMD Zen 2 APU. I wish AMD sold these sorts of APUs at retail as they pack a serious punch in the graphics department.
Unless you optimize the game in question to utilize the transfer speeds stated it doesn’t make much of a difference how fast the SSD is. Even the fastest nVme SSD on the market has a s♥♥t time with games like Final Fantasy 15 when loading and aren’t much better than an average nVme drive.
This is great and all but your better off buying a PC. You can get on to play both modern titles and a couple of emulators.
And you can use a PC for work as well.
Who cares, they’ll continue censoring games in the end. Let Sony burn tonthe ground.
So in the face of censorship, instead if supporting developers that stay true to they vision, you’ll just abandon them and move to another platform?
That’s why I hate modern Western culture, you’re actively contributing to censorship, and when the inevitable day comes that mods can’t revert the effects of censorship, you’ll blame everyone except yourself.
I’m not buying a PS5 personally. I’m going for an Xbox console for the first time in over a decade and will buy Japanese games on the Switch or wait for a PC release.
That and if the PS3 is anything to go by most Japanese developers will be releasing games on the PS4 for many years after the PS5 is out so I’ll also pick up the PS4 ports when possible.
I just purchased a 1TB Samsung 970 pro m.2 SSD in 2019, the speed is blazing fast @ 3500MB/s Read & 2,700MB/s Write, there are diminishing returns you will never need a pci express 4.0 SSD.
This. Besides, it’s a fucking SSD, if you could find me one human being who could tell the tangible difference between the booting times of a regular sata SSD and an NVMe, let alone NVMes in PCIe 3.0 and 4.0, I’d show you somebody who’s lying through their teeth.
Here’s the proof how far behind consoles are compared to PCs. First consoles with SSD built into them in 2020! My 2012 PC already had an SSD lol, this is laughable.
So you’ve had SSD with PCIE 4.0 since 2012?
Wow you’re so cool
He never said anything about PCIE 4.0 you retard.
He simply stated the fact that consoles come years behind in development.
This is a matter of perspective. I can say that PC is just beta testing technology for consoles.
SSD since 2012? Cool, thanks for the 8 years worth of beta testing for me.
Gotta love console fanboys and how retarded they are lol.
Enterprise always get the cutting-edge technology first and the one that scrapping the barrel are consoles.
Enterprise > HEDT > Destop > Mobile > Console
The same with other industries. Like luxury cars that have all the new features while the cheap cars don’t. Then a decade later the cheap cars now have the features like the luxury cars but just because the features are cheap now.
Same. I have a 180 GB SSD in 2012.
SSDs were massively expensive for the storage capacity required for a console when the PS4 & Xbox One first came out. It was only in recent years that they dropped heavily in price.
It was mostly down to a shortage in the chip things because Apple were being fuckheads and buying up all the available stock for their overpriced s♥♥t iPhones.
Oh thx for reminding me.
Those iPhones are still fragile as f♥♥k. XD