Just guessing I believe to do that to work on Series X it should break the masterkey of the console or do a heavy software engineer reverse... WD changed the ASIC controller so it should have a custom identifier that is validated by MS OS... to fake that you need to understand how MS validate it.From the specification of the m.2 slot this should work. From the software-side it might not. So even if you try it you may fail
But it would be interesting for sure to test it with a 2TB SSD. But how many so small 2TB SSDs are there that are that fast.
It wouldn't be a day around here with out the daily "bad news-concern" series x thread.
Still loads games faster though.
So weak when you remove the hardware io from both to make it SSD vs SSD it is basically a draw or series x a head lol.
Really? Wouldn’t that give it kind of parallelism?
Because your SOC only has a finite number of PCIe lanes.
Got 3 answers but I like yours the best. Gives the fullest picture on why they'd make the decision!
You have to understand the powah of the ssd is all they have left and there is video evidence of ps5 getting shit on, so it's on to the next made up flaw by the armchair engineers of Gaf.
Nah, my 1TB Samsung 970 Pro is 3.5GB/s in, and it's PCIe 3.0:
2x lanes of PCIe 4.0 could handle around 4GB/s:
PCIe® 4.0 offers double the bandwidth over PCIe 3.0, up to 32 GB/s on x16 slots: More bandwidth means fewer bottlenecks and components competing for speed. Better signal reliability and integrity: Improved performance and consistency.
.
You would need PCIe 4.0 interface as well for other components like GPU (RDNA2) and CPU (Zen2, version 2? As my 2700x is also Zen2). So you can't nitpick for SSD alone. So they used PCIe-3.0-based SSD via 2x only. Meets their targets.
I mean.. if it's a PCIE 3.0 drive MS shouldn't say it's a PCIE 4.0 drive.It is vitally important to several people who "have no interest" in Xbox. I couldn't get people this focused on something they don't care about unless I paid them.
Yeah it never made a lot of sense in the first place.. they still made the claim lol, even at a tech conference.
"Today we posted up an erroneous report stating the Series X's internal SSD didn't support PCIe 4.0, Western Digital has reached out to clarify this is wrong, and the built-in Series X SSD is in fact a customized solution that supports PCIe 4.0"
It doesn't, however, we also don't know how it's been customized either considering this is a similar SSD they use in their surface lineup and is only available
Is MS confused?
And no one said it's not supporting PCIe 4.0, because it needs to be slightly customized to run through 2x PCIe 4.0 lanes instead of naturally 4x lanes like all m.2 SSD's. This will ensure that you can't upgrade the internal storage cheaply as all of them are meant to run through 4x lanes.
The off the shelf one runs through 4x lanes:
- Read speeds up to 2,400 MB/s and low power consumption leverages both the PCIe Gen3 x4 interface, as well as sophisticated NVMe power management
PC SN530 NVMe SSD | Western Digital Store
The Western Digital PC SN530 NVMe™ SSD is designed for a multitude of applications that require both high performance and low power. The device is not only capable of more than three times the read speed over SATA SSDs, but further optimizes the low power consumption level to a mere 5mW...www.westerndigital.com
My Samsung 970 Pro PCIe 3.0 can work natively on PCIe 4.0 motherboards. So the only customization done here is more like "castration". Now we understand why it's using 2x lanes, which was pretty weird to read in the hot chips.
Keep that crow in the fridge in the meanwhile.
EDIT:
Like PCIe 3.0, PCIe 4.0 is forward and backward compatible. This means that PCIe 4.0 can be used as a direct replacement for PCIe 3.0, but it also means that if you connect a PCIe 3.0 card to the PCIe 4.0 slot, the card will perform to the PCIe 3.0 specs.
