8k Textures are probably going to be pretty big but IIRC audio is usually the cause of bloat these days
In the DF videos they showed the card disassembled, looks fully custom to me.
To their credit, having dedicated hardware compression/decompression will help a lot, especially for textures which tend to make up a lot of asset space. It'll certainly get bad with time, especially with how much of that 1tb is dedicated to the OS, resume, and 100gb of fast streaming cache for games... But it still is no where near as bad as the Vita situation.
I really think that electrically these will be PCIe, probably borrowing ideas from m.2. Possibly enough that an adapter could be made without any internal logic.
M.2 is literally just a small factor pci-e slot. You can get m.2 to pci-e adapters and hook up graphic cards.
Err, no?
Yes and no. m.2 M-key cards have pins for PCIe x4, SATA, and SMBus. A-key, B-key, and E-key cards have PCIe x2 along with various other pins including things like USB, SATA, audio, and DisplayPort. I suspect that this is going to be a more or less PCIe x4 part with whatever needs to happen to allow it to be hotpluggable. You *should* be able to have an adapter that allows connection to a m.2 M-key SSD, but only MS knows if they're doing something to prevent third party parts.
The PS4 and PS3 HDDs were relatively complicated to swap, and that seems to have worked out just fine. Just have a small tray you can pull out, a couple of screw holes for securing different size drives, and you're at that level of difficulty.
Genuinely don't expect to ever actually need more storage than 1TB(assuming games aren't 500gb at some point). I just delete games installed I haven't touched in months to make room.
I know there's a speed difference, I never said there wasn't and highlighted you can still use the console with the existing storage then swap games over to a HDD.
Exactly. I don't see it better any other way. You have 10tb of external HDD game data sitting close by. It shouldn't be a problem just loading it to the internal drive. Especially at USB 3.2 speeds
NVMe drives are sensitive to temperature and will throttle. So even a quick speed test could make it fall short of the required performance. So it's not as easy as you make it sound like. But I do agree that they should went with a standard design. Will see what Sony does with their system. For some reason I feel that their solution will be a hybrid system.
These are just proprietary m.2 with heat sinks, if it's an absolutely necessary thing too have, that would be covered by the theoretical certification process.
That's what the certification would be for. Any company could make a drive and then get a "series X approved" sticker for their box, and be put on an official compatibility list.
What you've quoted literally backs up what he says lol.
You can store Xbox Series X games on USB hard drives. You just can't run them from there.
PC gamers do it all the time. The point is to be able to download games once onto your (presumably much larger) USB hard drive, and copy them onto your (smaller but much faster) gaming drive when you intend to play them, without having to redownload them.
I can't see it being lower than $200. Fast 1TB NVME SSDs with good TLC flash are around $150-200 right now. That is for market pricing on a maturing standard. This will be a single vendor (at launch) selling a proprietary stick of memory with a built-in heat spreader (which most NVMEs don't have). I'm sure without a controller it would be a little cheaper, but you still need a healthy amount of the more expensive SLC cache which you can't really skimp on if you want those throughput speeds they're touting. And since it's not essential for console function, just a "nice to have" add-on, they probably won't make a ton of these, which will only drive the cost up further.
Maybe it has changed during last month, but previously Intel didn't licensed TB for anything else than an Intel architecture.
Yup "NVME" names a controller and "PCIE 4" a bus : that says nothing about card specs. That thing doesn't look like full drive (where the controller is embedded) but more just a PCB with flash cells.
