PS5 SSD: Why It's Better Than HDD

But when it's hot, will it sound like a jumbo jet getting ready to take off?

@LieutenantFatman

SSD. Don't make as much heat as HHD. Since nothing is spinning in it 😊. So not as warm

"you'll be able to purchase and install additional SSD cards called NVMe drives. "

Did I hear correctly that you need to install these additional cards internly?

@ShaiHulud my understanding after watching the fascinating deep dive was that there is a secondary hd bay so you'll be able to install a 2nd SSD in that when the time comes.

Solid-State Drive? Oh I thought it was something to do with MGS
We need to see it in action really

@LieutenantFatman ''PS4, makes you feel like you're an astronaut''

So they have a slot for a external HD and also a slot to add a SSD hard drive. I think the down side from the external hard drive is that it won't be able to use the power of the configuration of the internal solid state if I heard Mr. Cerny state. This system architecture is setup pretty nice. I am excited about what Sony is doing and that they aren't looking for raw power but more of a balance of power and stability.

Yup, ssd is the most important things for next-gen console I think, it make the console behave more like smartphone, where's everything is instantaneously from games to os and others.

And I mean not only ssd but the console design that support ssd speed, on pc there's little difference between playing games on sata ssd and nvme ssd because windows is not designed for nvme ssd gaming

Honestly, people are/were expecting much more from PS5 B/C with PS4, especially after the patent ''remastering by emulation'' was made public.

Patent mentioned things like better textures/LOD, better draw distances and NPC count on screen in open-world games, HDR, higher resolutions like native 4K and most importantly 60+FPS.

Now we will be able to play them again at PS4/PS4Pro settings, (if these games are lucky enough to be on the top played games list) at shorter loading screens...briliant.

Shame really, PS5 could have been much much more in those regards instead they are doing the same thing like Microsofts Xbox (only they actually have confirmation that older games will get HDR,higher res,raytracing and 60+FPS)...

Really dissapointed, now i almost have no doubts PS5 will likely not be my next console unless they pull of some miracle... and no price and exclusives (that will eventually end up on PC) are not things that will change my mind at this point.

825GB is such a weird number.

@get2sammyb @ShogunRok

Could this be coming to online gamins services?
https://ew.com/tv/netflix-coronavirus-speed/

Edited to add another story on streaming services being asked to downgrade traffic to SD levels:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/netflix-other-streaming-platforms-urged-154145328.html

@Skuggs23 If I recall that part of the video,Mark Cerny mentioned the internal SSD can be replaced by a 3rd party NVMe M2(?) drive via a plugin slot...but that Sony will need to test which SSD's are compatible when they come to market as they're not currently available,so not buy one now & wait post launch...
It gets confusing re ps4 though...he specifically stated like we can currently,(via psn account login),you can plug your external ps4 HDD & play via USB or optionally install it on the SSD. Great!
But then we got the mish-mash of the "built in legacy mode" thats running those games in ps4/pro mode needing titles to be individually tested & added...and the ps blog saying more titles to be added over time after launch?
So does this mean via firmware updates,devs/publisher updates or testing/certification as if they were "new" games being submitted to the psn store? Not a great look when your opposition says you just bring your library across.

@EVIL-C @stu123 @Robocod external ssd or HHD for you ps4 games. Simple as that you will be able to expand your storage

That’s like Red Dead and GTA 😊 (825GB)

@Ridwaano I'd rather just install a larger amount of storage internally when it runs out.

@EVIL-C it will be expensive. Probably will cost more then the console it self for 2 tb

@Robocod you are right but it he also stated that you don't have to replace it be add to the custom SSD card. But which SSD can can we use is in question and may be expensive but we will see. The expansion HD slot they are saying is in the system is cool who knows until we see the system.

@stu123 storage space is a problem for all systems as of right now. The games are so big now. But from the tech show that Mr. Cerny showed they may have found a way around the issue in regards of install size. Remember the copy part of the install is the biggest and longest part of games on consoles right now. So if they are able to cut back on that with this custom SSD they may be able to cut down in game size but I feel that is a stretch. The tech show or system infrastructure break down was very deep so a lot of things I'm familiar with but the SSD card they have built is every bit as powerful for the system and puts it on par with the Xbox power and speed. This generation will still be based off of games still not shear power of the consoles so we will see.

Hearing alot about ps5 playing backwards compatible ps4 games which I'm assuming will be disc based. Will we be able to play ps4 content we've bought digitally?

@stu123 that would be great but highly unlikely. I feel the games will be equally as large as they are now if not bigger.

is the 825 including the os storage or not because 825 is a very weird number to use

@FierceVinegar same question here... is it 1TB with OS, so free space is 825GB or is it 825GB with OS, so free space is somewhere around 660GB?

@djlard
The OS is not included. Never is.
Always market the amount there is. Not how much there will be after internal patch

@Skuggs23
Cerney already confirmed this. That the size of game will come down. Since there won't be need to duplicate the same data on a SSD. Because of the speed

@Stormxpython 💯 for sure you will. Since you psn account ain't lock to only ps4. If you use the same account. Then no problem.

@Ridwaano
Wrong! The type of SSD in the PS5 gets very hot! Most have their own heatsink, many even have their own fan. By your logic, a cpu and a gpu wouldn't run hot either, because they don't have any moving parts.

@EVIL-C There's a couple causes for that figure. First, due to the way file size and format works, you never get a true 1tb, 500gb, w/e. On a typical hdd, you get 931gb in actuality. Then, to lessen the wear on ssds, they hold back a certain % of the drive. This is called overprovisioning. The extra space is then cycled in and out over various sections of the drive to prevent burning out the memory cells.

There's also things like RamDisk which allows you to use a set amount of your ssd as ram.

Its certainly using overprovisioning as modern drives tend to come out of the box w/ about 15% of the drive set aside for it. In some cases you can't lower, but you can increase it.

@EVIL-C It's probably a 1TB SSD but the 175GB that's missing is for system cache and the OS plus space for updates etc

@DominatorV93
I would much rather play new games on a new console than one I've already finished.
I bought the original PS3 with b/c, I was excited about the backwards compatibility. I tried it once, saw that it worked and never used it again ever.

It's not really a feature worth anything and if you wait a year or so for the games to be available, there is no need to have it at all.

ANY SSD is better than HDD in terms of speed

@BrettAwesome https://thewiredshopper.com/ssd-vs-hdd/
From the article
(Friction is the enemy of computing. Since mechanical hard drives spin, it makes friction which causes heat to generate inside your system
And
SSDs work very well inside of laptops because they do not generate as much heat as a mechanical hard drive would.)

I am just saying overall a HDD generates more heats then SSD

@Ridwaano
And I'm saying it's wrong. I guarantee you Nvme drives such as the one found inside the PS5 gets MUCH hotter than an HDD. I ask again. Have you ever seen an HDD with a heatsink?
Besides, the drive in the picture is a sata SSD. Big difference, as it's a lot slower than an Nvme

@BrettAwesome
Yeah did not notice that there is a different between the SSD and NVMe.. So yeah that makes sense., I was wrong yep!

@Ridwaano
I think it might have something to do with the insane speed at which data is shuffled around. Reading and writing that much data so fast, and so often. But that's pretty much all I can take away from it. I've just seen the monstrous cooling solutions some of these drives require.

@BrettAwesome
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