Did anyone using diskless system before? It suitable for cybercafe or corporate.
or can recommend some diskless system?
Does this count? 
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Beat me to it, I was going to mention cassete tapes.
In general very few systems are actually passing out physical disks these days. Consoles do it. But it’s becoming rate on PC. And has never been a thing on mobile.
Even consoles are moving towards a more cloud based system. Pretty much every console delivers updates online. It wouldn’t surprise me if the next generation of consoles doesn’t support an optical disk drive at all.
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With the way things are going I’d be disappointed in Microsoft and Sony if their next generation didn’t have SSDs. Prices have simply gotten low enough that there isn’t a good excuse to still continue using magnetic drives. At least if you’re only going to put half a terabyte of storage in a system like they’ve been doing.
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Only half a terabyte. I still remember the day when megabytes were the hottest new thing in storage.
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The way things are going I wouldn’t be too surprised if games no longer get delivered to the end user on the next console generation and they are just streamed from cloud services.
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The bandwidth required for that would be insane. Not to mention the unacceptable input lag.
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Have to agree with @Zeblote and it’s not like we don’t have at least one past example of a company that tried and failed.
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I know. But afaik it’s already being done.
Edit: got ninja’d:
I too think it’s a shit idea. But I’m sure some big corporations would love it.
Sony basically bought up OnLive. Some of the concepts may eventually hit the PlayStation.
Didn’t they (plan to?) implement ps3 backwards compatibility on ps4 with cloud streaming?
And don’t forget Boondogl!
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You’re thinking of PlayStation Now. It’s already available but it still has the same basic limitations. Sony only recommends a 5 Mbps connection but a review from TechRadar showed that it didn’t work ideally unless you’re on a 10 to 15 Mbps connection and even then a spike in the connection will derail your gameplay.
http://www.techradar.com/us/reviews/gaming/playstation-now-1213666/review
I was under the impression that Boondogl streamed the game files to your device and it ran locally.
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Mainly poking fun. My main impression of Boondogl is that it does nothing.
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It’s a fancy name and marketing for what amounts to a web portal you need a subscription to use.
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Breathe in:
“Write”
Breathe out:
“Cycles”
Repeat until you understand why magnetic drives are still more reliable and won’t break month after buying even if you get cheap one made in China.
Unless your statement is backed up by facts from a reliable source I simply cannot believe you. Early SSDs may have been plagued with problems, mostly from their controllers, but modern SSDs are very solid and very long lasting. Write cycles are not a problem simply because modern drives have them in spades and technology is only improving them.
My current solid state drive is about six months old and I have only used about 1/60th of it’s write limit. If I continue to keep the current usage rate it will last me about 30 years. Ask yourself how many hard drives from thirty years ago are still usable in a modern system. The connector type we use will change before any of my drives will cease functioning.
Okay, but you have probably something like Kingston or Samsung… What if you’d have cheap or noname one? Would it still be just as good? Meanwhile, my 1TB (well, 698GB, but you know how they count space) HDD that is as old as my current computer, which is 8 years is of some brand that I can’t even pronounce because it’s made out of chinese characters. Never had any problem with it, even though I got it for like… 50 bucks (can’t remember the exact exchange rate from 8 years ago, but it was about 200 pln).
I have two solid state drives. One is a Samsung 850 EVO 512GB (six months old) and the other is an ADATA Premier Pro 120GB drive (four years old). It goes without saying that my Samsung drive is in great shape but the ADATA drive is in fantastic shape too. I haven’t had any problems with either of them.
If your hard drive is only reporting a total capacity of 698GB then I would be very suspicious. A 1TB drive should be no smaller than 900GB. It isn’t unheard of at all to buy a drive that is labeled or sold as one capacity size but is actually a completely different size.
Magnetic drive technology is far older than solid state technology. That said we’re rapidly approaching the point where SSDs aren’t that much more expensive than modern HDDs. A 960GB SSD is about $200 on the cheaper end of the scale right now. Half that capacity is half that price, one quarter size is about one quarter the price, etc.
I had a similar one as well (ADATA 120GB, 4,5 years old) which failed to work 2 weeks ago.
Never had any problems either - until it just stopped working from one day to another. Just a lil’ reminder to backup your data 