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IFixit Xbox One S teardown reveals Wireless AC and SATA III
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milkybar1983
Member
wonder how quick you can get loading times with internal sata III SSD
OnionPowder
Member
Finally SATA III.
Now Sony needs to put SATA III in the Neo so we can see how ridiculous an SSD is at full speed in a console.
Now Sony needs to put SATA III in the Neo so we can see how ridiculous an SSD is at full speed in a console.
Zombie James
Banned
The next step, past Wireless N. AC is the current standard for Wifi.
Yep, if we could do it though. Ssd baby!
wesleyshark
Banned
Seeing all of this engineering going into the S makes me even more excited for Scorpio.
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
the standards that describe how wireless internet works are described in the document IEEE (this is the standards organization) 802.11 (this is the number of the standard). the initial consumer wireless standard was 802.11b. later, the replacement was 802.11g. then 802.11n. then 802.11ac. each standard is backwards compatible, so you can use 802.11ac gear with 802.11b networks, but not forwards compatible (so if you want to use 802.11b gear with 802.11ac networks, the ac network needs to slow itself down and be a b network). 802.11ac is the fastest current standard. it's not just speed but also how speed is shared between clients, distance you can get a signal, etc. that's affected by the standard version.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Man. Too bad the internal HDD isn't replaceable. Stellar redesign besides the lack of this feature. AC support is definitely nice to see as well.
entremet
Member
My biggest with MS's approach. I don't want more wires and stuff dangling around in my entertainment center.
SATA 2 to 3 doesn't make a big difference at all. No matter if it's user replaceable or not. The external is the better solution if you want speed.
Netherscourge
Banned
Even with SATA2, SSDs are hella faster than a crappy HDD platter.
I had a SSD in a 1st Gen i7 PC (sata2, usb2, PCIe2) and boot times, load times and shutdown times were awesome.
The Read/Write speeds alone are huge boost, nevermind the bus.
GameFreak117x
Banned
SATA III is pretty much not going to make a difference on a drive that is 5400 RPM. But its not like they could fit a regular 7200 rpm drive either considering the size especially with the power brick now being internal.
I think both companies should offer both options. I already have disks lying around and don't need another one.
SEGAvangelist
Member
Mainly because of the game loading from a different hard drive than the main hard drive I'm guessing. I'm curious how a SSDD would function internally compared to externally with SATA III on XB1.
They still have old XB1s sell.
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
I noticed my downloads were faster. Installing 87GB of Halo 5 only took 45 min to an hour compared to almost 2 hours.
Which chip does it have? PCI-id? Documents? Specs? Anything?
Gator Bait
Banned
Hmm maybe i should swap out my old one after all. I was going to hold off until scorpio
First: Yes, it is because the external only does games while the internal will do caching, logging and mainly os stuff which is expensive as seek and access times are still bad on mechanical disks.
Second: you can exchange the internal disk, there is a tutorial on the internet. But you lose your warranty.
It will of course make things better like booting and it will be faster than USB most probably but not really something you will feel.
LelouchZero
Member
SATA III is a beautiful upgrade!
Does your modem/router support ac? My modem does both and both networks would show up in WiFi settings so I connected to the 5g one.¯_(ツ_/¯ my xbone only connects to N max
On my ps4 only the older one would show up.
Cool. I guess there are gaffers that have sc routers to test this.
Is the Wi-Fi as bad as the one on ps4?
yes my router supports AC, I use it on my phone, iPad and laptop.
your 5GHZ network is AC only? or N/AC mixed?
Turns out to be pebkac.
Not sure. Two connections display when you search WiFi. My iPad, phone etc all support ac so those I connect to the 5g. I assume that's AC.
I can't speak for your own set up obviously, but if you have a dual band router you would see the 2 different networks for 2.4 and 5ghz. my 2.4 band is G/N mixed and my 5ghz band is N/AC mixed because I have 5gz devices i'd like to connect that don't support AC.
I'd suspect your 5ghz band is AC/N mixed unless you specifically set it to be AC only
If it were user replaceable you could stick an SSD in it which would most certantly benefit from SATA 3
THE:MILKMAN
Member
Looks nice, simple and clean like the latest PS4 but those 16 RAM chips stick out. I guess the cost of the 16nm shrink and UHD upgrades took all the budget.
Interesting that the PSU uses a standard 6-pin PCI-E power connector. The Scorpio render also had one. Was the render more representative than thought?
Interesting that the PSU uses a standard 6-pin PCI-E power connector. The Scorpio render also had one. Was the render more representative than thought?
Lord Error
Insane For Sony
There is no way that external drive through USB is faster than the same type of SATA3 internal drive.
Better to have someone to be pleasantly surprised than potentially underwhelmed.
ethomaz
Banned
Little question... is it confirmed SATA3 controller??? Because you can use SATA3 HDD in SATA2 controller... the speed is limited to SATA2.
If you can replace it and put a SSD then SATA3 makes a big difference.