The SATA II based 2.5"850 pro and 850 EVO will be the first SSDs in line to receive the NAND upgrade and thus larger capacities

SATA III. I hope this eventually reduces prices further, if possible. It's like game studios never noticed people switched from several terabytes HDDs to SSDs with only a fraction of a terabyte of space. It seems like 50+ GB is the minimum new games require (any DLCs or mods naturally increase the size on top of that).

Whether or not you intend to buy one, or think the price is practical...the sooner large capacity drives hit the market, the sooner adoption rates will go up and prices will come down. I want to buy a 2TB M.2 860 Samsung drive...or whatever samsung decides to call their next series...should it be PCI based. CPU improvements seem to mean little in games these days, but load times could always be improved. That said...a 4TB drive is tempting for future proof capacity reasons, despite the SATA limitations...too bad the 2TB 850 pro is already $1250aus.

SATA III. I hope this eventually reduces prices further, if possible. It's like game studios never noticed people switched from several terabytes HDDs to SSDs with only a fraction of a terabyte of space. It seems like 50+ GB is the minimum new games require (any DLCs or mods naturally increase the size on top of that).

Game sizes have always been going up. It's up to us to make sure we have the space to run them.

Game sizes have always been going up. It's up to us to make sure we have the space to run them.

Yeah, but there are some unexplained factors like uncompressed audio files. It would take an insignificant amount of CPU time to decompress audio on modern CPUs, so there's no particular reason to leave it uncompressed. That's why I said the studios apparently are still living the days when SSDs were treats only for the rich and (3.5") HDD sizes started from 1TB. When in reality the most popular SSD sizes are still 120-256GB, I'd bet.

That was like, one game. Textures and 1080p movie files are going to be your main thing now. And why shouldn't they use higher quality sound files now

See, this is the crap that pisses me off. I can appreciate the need to increase capacities, but if you aren't doing it while simultaneously matching it with price decreases, it's pointless. What we need are reasonable capacities as better prices. Let me know when 1TB SSD's hit 150$.