Re:Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a...
by Nextgrid on Friday June 12, 2020 @10:50PM
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There's absolutely no excuse for why a console released in 2016 still had 5400 rpm spinning rust. Those drives are barely usable in low-end laptops, and you're trying to run games from it?
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Re:Storage Matters: Why Xbox and Playstation SSDs Usher in a...
by arthurfm on Friday June 12, 2020 @11:26PM
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Seagate stopped making 7200 rpm 2.5" HDDs in 2013 [1]. I assume Microsoft didn't want to pay more for a 7200 rpm 2.5" WD Black HDD so that leaves 5400 rpm drives as the only option.
The hard drive in the Xbox One is a 2.5" 9.5mm Samsung Spinpoint M8 drive [2]. Seagate purchased Samsung's HDD business in 2011 [3].
[1] https://techreport.com/news/24439/seagate-to-stop-making-720...
[2] https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/1r5gc6/xbox_one_us...
[3] https://www.seagate.com/gb/en/news/news-archive/seagate-comp...