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Exclusive: A Deeper Look at the PlayStation 5 (archive)
Sony skipped games show E3 this year, a void during which Microsoft unveiled details about its own next-gen console, a successor to the Xbox One referred to only as Project Scarlett. Like the PS5, Scarlett will boast a CPU based on AMD's Ryzen line and a GPU based on its Navi family; like the PS5, it will ditch the spinning hard drive for a solid-state drive. Now, though, in a conference room at Sony's US headquarters, [Sony Interactive Entertainment CEO Jim Ryan] and system architect Mark Cerny are eager to share specifics.
Before they do, Cerny wants to clarify something. When we last discussed the forthcoming console, he spoke about its ability to support ray-tracing, a technique that can enable complex lighting and sound effects in 3D environments. Given the many questions he's received since, he fears he may have been ambiguous about how the PS5 would accomplish this—and confirms that it's not a software-level fix, which some had feared. "There is ray-tracing acceleration in the GPU hardware," he says, "which I believe is the statement that people were looking for." (A belief born out by my own Twitter mentions, which for a couple of weeks in April made a graphics-rendering technique seem like the only thing the internet had ever cared about.)
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[Since] games are getting quite large (Red Dead Redemption 2 took up nearly 100GB; The Elder Scrolls Online is even larger), the PlayStation 5 will use 100GB optical discs. It will support the 4K Blu-ray disc format.
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday October 09 2019, @05:10PM (1 child)
But with LTO tape drive you have a steep initial price. Second hand can be a good alternative if the drive is in good condition. New can be from 1800 - 2000 dollars, and add the SAS controller and cables.
(Score: 2) by takyon on Wednesday October 09 2019, @05:58PM
I don't disagree, although you could also see high initial prices for a new format optical drive.
My point is that getting past 100 TB opens up opportunities. HDDs could eventually hit 100 TB but it could take up to 10-15 years, although Seagate claims 2025 [tomshardware.com] using bit-patterned media with HAMR. Tape is hitting 100 TB but a new 100+ TB 120mm wide optical disc format could potentially be much denser. It is easy to make a 100 TB SSD, but it's going to cost at least $5,000-10,000, for now.
Instead of making a 120mm wide disc for compatibility with CD/DVD/Blu-ray, maybe it could be stacked like hard drive platters and put into an external enclosure.
By the way, I mentioned 6 TB because that was a supposed capacity target of the vaporware Holographic Versatile Disc [wikipedia.org]. Also close to this thing [wikipedia.org] (never heard of it until now).
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