| eva01beserk said: I would not be surprised if sony allowed much slower ssd's to be used in the expansion bay, then have games automatically swap between the drives in order of last played. While for an external hdd that would be crazzy as it could take hours to swap, betwen ssd's it should be done while your loading the game or installing for the first time or update or what ever, people would not notice and the main drive will always be the ps5's. At least untill a compatible drive comes along. Who knows when that will be. although that would mean a higher price as you would then need to buy an ssd now and basicly throw it out when a compatible ones comes along. But if its seamless, I dont think people will care and wont bother to upgrade. Specially since 825gb is enough for like 10+ games and nobody swaps between that many games. |
Cerny already mentioned only some (very fast) m.2 drives will be certified compatible. If nothing else because of the size of the SSDs themselves.
Also, the point of a cold storage is to be cheap and big. So you can keep the games you're not actively playing there without having to download them all over again. Then, when playing them, they should be installed back to the fast SSD. So don't think you'll be playing games that make use of the fast I/O speeds when running games on off the shelf slow ass SSDs, that will not happen.
edit: sorry, misread your original post, I think you made the same point as me, running the games on the fast drive. The cold storage should be more than fine to store bulk data though, it would be sequential read and copy to the fast ssd. would take a couple minutes per game and that's it.
