New Xbox

[gavindruck3]

So, as far as I can tell from this evenings livestream and some articles I've read, the new Xbox is using it's SSD as a SWAP drive along with the standard use drive. What seems odd to me is, if that's true, wouldn't that reduce the lifespan of the SSD, like, a lot. Using an SSD like RAM SWAP cache would run many small write cycles on the drive, which, from what I know is terrible for SSD's, especially for multi layer NAND. In this case, looking to be cost effective and easily sourceable, Microsoft will most likely use a TLC or MLC NAND SSD's. Most consoles already have problems from drive corruption and early death so wouldn't this whole venture be counter-intuitive. I'd love if someone would possibly explain to me, if, this makes sense to them why Microsoft would do this.

[lvh1]

Since it'll probably have 16GB or more of ram it'll rarely have to use the swap, and if it does that would probably generate some stuttering which isn't desirable, so they'll try to avoid it. And even then, it would take thousands of hours of being memory-deprived for it to have any effect. a 500GB SSD usually has a MTFB of 200TB+ written these days, so that would take a very long time to reach.

I wouldn't worry about it at all.