New official info on PS5, launching next holiday

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drkohler said:

Trumpstyle said:

Did you miss this in the article? "like the PS5, it will ditch the spinning hard drive for a solid-state drive." There is no ANCIENT drive in the next-gen console.

The way Marc Cerny describes the inner workings of the next generation of software is precisely, and I mean PRECISELY, how a large hd behind a superfast ssd could work. I mean it is PRECISELY how an engineer would describe the system without giving away too much information. In a nutshell, you install your game on a large hd once and then have the key parts only install (from the hd as many times as you want) on a superfast ssd.

There is also this old insider rumour about the devkit mainboard which meticulously lists the components on it. It PRECISELY describes such a system of superfast ssd as the front end. If someone made all that up (and it does not forget to list a single part that is required for such a system) it was a lot of work for something that few people actually seem to grasp.

So which one is it? We don't know. Those people who dream of a 2GByte superfast ss should just check current prices, they range from $500 to $1200. Could a 1TByte superfast ssd (still expensive as hell when manufacturing a console, storage should not exceed 10% of your total budget) be enough? People have been complaining about the 1TByte PS4 drive as being too small for ages now. Do you really risk to start a new generation with a puny 1TByte drive (which isn't even 1TByte, binary speaking).

"or just installing the whole thing and then deleting the single-player campaign once you've finished it."

This is Mark Cerny describing the SSD, transferring whole games to the SSD from the CD (not some game files). If we put a 128gb Cache in there that means 1 game or maybe not even 1 game as the OS will probably also be installed there too. I expect average game size to be 100GB next-gen. It will take about 15min to transfer a game from the HDD to the SSD, you somehow expect gamers is gonna shuffle games between the HDD and SSD with only maybe 1 game fitting in the SSD cache.

Dude it's time to give up the whole HDD + SSD combo, it DOESN'T WORK.

About the storage, 1TB is enough, according to wikipedia average game sold per console for PS4 sit at 9,56, average game size for PS4 is about 50GB. 10 x 50GB = 500GB so a 500GB hard drive is perfect for PS4

10 x 100GB = 1TB so 1 TB is perfect for PS5.