| SvennoJ said: Nah, I don't want to use a USB port for that, nor have an external HDD on top or beside / behind the console. Plus copying from HDD back to SSD takes long as well, might as well install from disk. And I hate trying to find something in a menu, while I can pick out the game I want blindfolded from the shelf. I deleted a game so it could patch the others, problem solved. The PS5 only lists a couple games on the menu bar (can't find how to make it work like ps4, maybe you can't yet?) so no point installing more or it's having to browse the game library again. |
Heh, yes, I meant TB, not GB! Good catch! :)
Fair enough if you don't prefer an external drive plugged in. But copying from an external drive back to the SDD would be vastly faster on average than re-installing from disc, and the older the game gets the bigger the advantage of copying from an external drive becomes. On the external drive it can (optionally) keep the game up to date as patches come out. Whereas re-installing from disc will trigger a growing cascade of patches and other updates as the game gets older. Hell, there are AAA games that have a single GB on the disc, almost all of the game has to be installed from the cloud even if you have the disc. And that's BEFORE content updates and any patches enter the picture.
Whereas moving an average AAA tile from a USB SSD might take 8-ish minutes, and from a USB HDD might take 20-ish minutes. Even if you have Gigabit internet or better, installing from disc would likely take far longer due to the downloads required.
It does occur to me that the external drive doesn't need to be plugged in all the time, either. You can copy to it, and unplug it when you're done. You can later copy back from it, and again unplug it when you're done. Most systems have both front and rear USB ports these days. If you only plug the USB drive in when you're copying a game back or forth, it's not a lot different than hunting down the disc and putting it in the drive. Other than you'd probably wait longer if installing it from disc, on average.
To each their own, everyone has different preferences, and I prefer the advantages of selecting from the (virtual) fronts of boxes for digital games over the spines of physical game boxes. And I'm on a Series S so I can't speak to how the PS5 organizes digital games. But I can say that copying back from an external drive is going to be objectively faster, on average.
