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Originally Posted by XjapanFOREVER
I've never really looked into SST, any semi-easy to understand articles about it for us semi-technical folk?
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Here ya go.
Solid state hard drive technology guide
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Originally Posted by XjapanFOREVER
I couldn't agree with Tyrien more, digital collections are cool, but it just isn't the same, alot of people complained when X released I.V. as an iTunes single instead of a physical single, one reason could be the highest quality available on iTunes is 320 mp3.
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Every bit of Digitally Distributed media should have its Hard Copy counter part.
It should be a choice, not a regime change.
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Originally Posted by XjapanFOREVER
also, with the increasing size of games, imagine the HDD you would have to have to store multiple games on it. A couple TB if you want a decent collection of PS3 games.
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Indeed. Also, hard drives fail all the time. Imagine having to buy a backup for a huge drive?
For example, I have a PC with 5Tb of disk space. 1Tb of it failed and I couldn't do sh*t about it unless I dished out £400-£900 for data recovery.
In the end I made a vacuum box and succeeded in repairing it myself, though it voided the warranty.
Another example, my friends PS3 hard drive failed on him the other day. He was forced to format a Ton of saved game data as well as saved games.
He could back that crap up but why should he have to dish out extra money for something that can be so unreliable? Surely a backup device should come as standard.
So, that is 100's of hours of gameplay and transferred data down the crapper.
Imagine if it was your digitally downloaded game collection.
>.>
So yea, lets not get ahead of ourselves peoples.
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Originally Posted by Tyrien
or rather, SATA, and eSATA are used internally due to power consumption. There's no external use for them currently like an SD card.
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You mean like USB drives?
And yes, they make stand alone systems for Solid State Devices too up to 2Tb.
Like I said though, expensive as hell.