Seagate releases FireCuda Gaming Storage Solutions
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DG21
430 bucks for a 2TB PCIe Gen4 unit sounds ok to me, but with 3600 TB(W) it's getting reeealy juicy... 🙂
fantaskarsef
And... what's the gaming related part in there? I fail to see it tbh.
Denial
LED illumination bro - makes you game harder and faster
Embra
Now I need it!!
ladcrooks
' play the game. ' We all know Game , gamer, gamer's, gaming ,means jack shit , but the kids love that word - every PC item you buy with any of these makes you the bee's knee's or your penis bigger.
It's a mental stimulant that acts like HGH 😛
Venix
Oh noes so if your ssd does not have a gaming title you can not game your games will have up to 1 billion p.second delay do you know how big of a number is 1 billion? Like super big! Those are a lot of pico seconds !
mbk1969
The day when game developers will code with NVMe only in mind is coming...
Venix
Sometimes i wonder why there is no proper tiered storage implementation build in to windows , how awesome it would be an nvm ssd in front of sata ssd in front of a huge hdd .
Astyanax
what do you think superfetch is......
Venix
superfetch is just with the available ram you have i am talking on a much bigger scale what i am picturing is something like store mi ...but build in natively and brand agnostic .
mbk1969
I was joking about lazy game developers.
I suspect such tiered storage solution is needed only for enterprise server editions of Windows.
DmitryKo
Automatic storage tiering is supported by Storage Spaces in Windows Server 2012 R2 and 2016, as well as Storage Spaces Direct in Windows Server 2016 Datacenter Edition.
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/larryexchange/2015/12/02/understand-storage-space-tiering-in-windows-server-2012-r2/
https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/josebda/2013/08/28/step-by-step-for-storage-spaces-tiering-in-windows-server-2012-r2/
https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/storage-spaces/storage-spaces-direct-overview
https://blog.cdemi.io/caching-and-storage-tiering-in-storage-spaces-direct/
fellix
Actually, one of the reasons some games take so much installation space is because developers still assume HDD is the prevailing storage medium (incl. consoles) and as a result many assets are duplicated dozens or hundreds of times over, to reduce the access latency. Of course, for any half-decent SSD this is completely redundant, so one could actually say that developers have already being "coding" for spinning rust.
mbk1969
How duplicating assets reduces access latency? If code uses one asset instead of 100 it only needs to be loaded one time not 100.
Astyanax
Load one tree, use it 100 times.
The duplication is of that one asset in rendering a hundred tree's.
mbk1969
You are aware that this is called re-using. Duplication would be load one tree 100 times and then render each tree one time.
