Flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) are considered to be the future of performance hard drives, and everyone seems to be jumping on the bandwagon. Tom's Hardware is no exception, as they have been publishing many articles on flash-based SSDs during the last few months, emphasizing the performance gains and the potential power savings brought by flash memory.
And there is nothing wrong with this, since SLC flash SSDs easily outperform conventional hard drives today (SLC = single level cell). However, they have discovered that the power savings aren't there: in fact, battery runtimes actually decrease if you use a flash SSD.
Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.
The stock mark is what makes Microsoft remarkable, They have convinced every institutional and retail investor to just keep piling money into them. Like many big tech giants they are just a big growing pyramid scheme. As long as people keep dropping money into ETF's that cover the market Microsoft will always be liquid. At the same time it is completely stifling innovation and competition. People need to start being more discreet in how they invest their money as it's killing the system.
Riiiiight because people will just flock back to them for one or two games per year.
15+ years of bad performance is what they call irreparable in business. It is time for them to sell off the assets and get out of entertainment.
These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse
Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.
Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Right now they have huge performance increases over conventional hard drives, wait for them to come down in price, become mainstream. THEN they can concentrate on power.
It isn't really mainstream unless we're talking the low-end (the 4gb SSD in an EEE PC) and it is likely that power-saving features will be added, as well as the drives built to simply run more efficiently.
Lets bash a new technology because it doesn't have the "advanced options" that the current HDD's have. We have only been stuck using the same technology of HDD for over 20 years, while everything else on the PC has improved significantly.
The Wiimote sucks at accuracy but that's not to say that Nintendo's next attempt wont be stellar.
Or hell, the 360 might have something better at E3 with all of these rumours floating around.
I disagree with some of your post, while it is a given that ssd's will eventually overtake hdd, it will be several yrs before this happens due to price being unrealistic to capacity wise, i would guess.
"Just get over it and face the facts. In 10 years there will be no storage media based on any kind of disc (hard or optical)"
I find this a silly assumption, rather your timeframe i find laughable, there is still albums being released on cds daily, they still make new movies being released on dvd and blu rays daily. I would be willing to bet 10 yrs from now they will still release songs on cds and movies on blu ray and probably a few on dvd, as long as their is a demand for these items they will still exist.
It is a given that the industry will move away, at some point from rotational storage devices, however i disagree that all rotational media will be gone in 10 yrs, it will probably be on its last interation, just not dead.
Lastly i hope your not refering to hvd, at 15k per player and 120 per disc, this has a long way to go till its practical. Other than data storage/backup at the current movie/tv resolution it's pointless for movies on hvd's.