I hate front license plates. They obstruct airflow, are ugly, cost the state twice as much tax money to produce, and reduce fuel efficiency.

At least it’s the best Subaru. On the other hand it means you have a Saab with headgasket issues.

So now if you crack the exhaust manifold you have to throw away the entire engine.

When he said Kona, I actually thought of beer, not coffee.

They have modern cars that store your hooch.

That just seems like normal BMW depreciation.

NVMe *can* have 5 times the bandwidth of SATA. It’s great for copying files and moving lots of data around, and my Intel 750 is way faster than my SATA SSD for that, but when you’re loading a game, my Intel 750 can fill the 8GB of RAM the game is using in ~4 seconds, the reason the game takes more than 4 seconds to…

How do you put a NVMe drive in less than a 1x slot? Also what’s the loading time you’re saving 5 seconds on? Saving 5 seconds on a 2 minute loading screen isn’t much.
Edit: Also, have another link showing the diminishing returns of loading speedups on NVMe drives. The fastest drive for loading LoTR: Shadow of Mordor…

I have empirical evidence that I’m right and you’re wrong. The bandwidth is ginormous compared to SATA, but it hardly dents load times at all. Enjoy your fractions of a second faster load times:

Just be aware PS4 doesn’t support TRIM. So in the long run performance will degrade and the life of the SSD will be shorter. Once every couple years I back everything up, plug the SSD into my computer to secure erase and TRIM the drive, and then put it back in my PS4 so it’s fresh.

I mean if you use it the way Intel wants you to use it, it is a waste of money, but you CAN use it as a standalone drive, or for your swapfile. It has some tangible benefits over normal SSDs. Mainly latency that’s ~10x faster and higher low-queue depth random IOPS.

That Intel storage you’re talking about (Optane) is already out. You can buy it on Amazon.

I have a SSD in my PS4, and an additional SSD hooked up to my PS4's USB port.

The author is incorrect when they say that transferring from storage is the limiting factor. It’s mainly the CPU having to prepare and process all of the data that takes so long. That’s why really fast PCIe SSDs don’t improve load times very much compared to a standard SATA SSD.

I assume your PC has a much better CPU…

And then you’re no longer waiting for the SSD to transfer those textures, you’re waiting for the CPU to decompress/process them. This author says that storage speed is the limiting factor, but the truth is that fast NVMe drives don’t reduce loading times significantly over SATA SSDs even though they are 4-8x faster. …

the loading time on a PCIe drive vs a SATA drive is pretty much equivalent. Once you have an SSD the CPU and RAM (and how efficientl the programming is) become the bottleneck

There are still loading times on PCs. Even with SSDs. Don’t act so high and mighty.

Journey definitely had loading times. They were just hidden behind cinematics.