TL;DR version is basically speeds up data transfer.
https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/geforce/news/rtx-io-gpu-accelerated-storage-technology/
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Are you kidding? The player base nearly revolted when asked to buy an SSD.
It’s fifteen years too soon.
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Ssd’s are super cheap right now, in a year or two they should become mandatory. Got to realize consoles only pack ssd’s now, so there will be no future triple a titles coded to work on spinning drives.
Looking forward to more ssd price drops though.
It’s surprising that spinning rust has held on as long as it has. SSDs have been on the market for about a decade now, and while they aren’t as cheap as HDs they’ve been at a reasonable cost for $/GB for many years at this point, and with the advent of streaming everything sheer capacity isn’t as important as it used to be anyway.
Personally I put the blame on prebuilt PC vendors using cheap high capacity HDs as a way to pad the specs on their entry and low-midrange models to look better to your average consumer than they actually are.
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We aren’t even at the point where SATA SSDs are mainstream for the general consumer.
It’s gonna be a while before NVME SSD’s become standardized.
That’s an understandable position to have. The next few years won’t be like the last 10 years though, even the unannounced Xbox Series S will pack a PCIE 4.0 SSD. That’s only hitting the market for like $350~$400 max.
It’s great we have a higher demand for SSD’s today, that drives up production, and that is ultimately what leads to lower prices.
I spent like five pages arguing with people in general about how easy and inexpensive ssds were and ultimately I got the “you don’t pay my sub” responses
People are generally stubborn. Had a nice healthy laugh when Nvidia showed the RTX 3070 beating the RTX 2080 Ti in their benchmarks. “But muh $1,2000 paper weight”.
The reason I see NVME ssd’s picking up in popularity is because of the game engines and the API’s are being developed to take advantage of PCIE ssd’s now. This is the start of a new gen of gaming, not just for consoles but for PC’s as well.
I jumped on the bandwagon already last year - got a 1tb 660p.
QLC NVME SSDs are great for consumers, they still have great read speeds compared to the TLC counterparts and only suffer really in writing, which is less of an issue in gaming if any at all.
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What gets me about that crowd is that half or more of those players probably wouldn’t think twice about dropping $50-$250+ on WoW-bound store mounts/pets/toys or tokens for achievements they’ll forget about in a week, but investing that cash in a computer upgrade that’ll increase speeds of everything disk-heavy by 10x-30x and last them 5-10 years is somehow out of the question.
Unless literally all they use their computer for is WoW, it makes no sense. The return on investment for an SSD is so much higher it’s absurd.
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technically no reason to buy a gen 4 ssd.
nothing saturates the current 3.0 speeds.
could change with the sdd to gpu that ps5 uses.
and pcie 4.0 is a short lived spec. (it was mega delayed originally)
pcie5 is due next year and 6.0 is already being worked on iirc.
each 1 doubles prior ones speeds.
that is a “gotcha” in cheap ssd.
ssd are optimized for not being “full”.
a full ssd is slow.
i mean they are still cheap (u can get an os/anti virus ssd 128gb for lie k25$) but the cheap oens do have downsides msot buyers dont know about. (some will actually be slower than a spinning drive if u put too much data on it)
that was a joke of a series anyways. you were payign the rtx fee when nothign used it.
1080 is still more popular than any of the 20 series.
and thats likely why they made em cheap…to get ppl off the 1080’s.
i run a 1060 myself and am thinking of gettign a 3000 series as it actually has a price to increased performance that is fair to me.
sadly not all motherboards have em 
but goign forward in a few yrs likely will be mainstream even on budget builds.
agreed.
almost like windows forced updates <_<…
That was first generation drives.
Newer drives (even this 850 is old tech by now) don’t suffer this issue.
You can absolutely get an inexpensive, fast DRAM-equipped NVME QLC drive that won’t slow you don’t when nearing capacity (660p, P1, etc.)
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I would not waste the energy it takes to type the words past “it’s silly not to have the game on a SSD”
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You can you can also wait 10 minutes for the game to load…
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That is like a 2010 argument anyone not on an SSD today is ignorant or sadistic.
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