Is Switch 2's 256gb on par or worse than PS5's 825 launch model?

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SvennoJ said:

LegitHyperbole said:

Oh ffs. And it's different on the slim than the launch model too. Oh that's so aggravating, that's all so aggrevating. I seen from the article someone posted above that there were class actions about this, for good reason too. This is an issue where you standardise like USB and everyone gets on board for that standardisation, USB-c happened in an easy flash, this shouldn't be so hard to sort out, it's not their mistake but it's their mistake that they aren't fixing it for accurate numbers on the box. 

Edit: There is an "oother" section on the storage that seems to shift size, maybe that's it. Something that holds data from apps or when you install an app in reserves data in "other" or something like keeping a YouTube video buffered when the app is closed. 

And rest mode of course. Suspending a game means temporarily storing the contents in RAM to SSD, another 12-13 GB to reserve.


I disabled hibernation on my laptop to free up precious space on my system drive, which is only a 256 GB SSD. With 32GB RAM hibernation would take up over 10% of my system drive. (Hyberfil.sys)

There's still around 5GB in pagefile.sys, using the SSD for extra RAM (something consoles don't deal with) which I don't get why Windows still insists on needing when I rarely exceed 12GB RAM in use out of 32GB (I upgraded RAM for FS2020, now never use the extra 16GB) but there's still 1.3GB in the paged pool according to task manager.

Anyway Windows reports 4864 MB allocated for the pagefile, Total Commander reports pagefile.sys at 5,100,274,664 bytes = 4,864 MiB. So here Microsoft is using the computer version of MB, not the base 10 version.

Windows also says my SSD is 237 GB, which much be 237 GiB = 254,476,812,288 bytes.
Total Commander reports my drive as 248,882,172 k = 254,855,344,128 bytes. (close enough with rounding, this is 237.35 GiB)

For my 1TB storage drive Windows claims 931 GB, Total Commander 976,760,828 k (931.5 GiB / 1.000 TB)

So it seems Windows is using GiB and TiB. What does Series X use...


Maybe it's all in the 'correct' form on devices, it's just marketing that's using base 10.

Indeed but is the other section independant of the OS, I thinkn it might be which doesn't solve the problem of why the launch, slim and PRO all have a different OS sized chunk taken off the SSD, the PRO is understnadable but the slim and the launch model being off is strange. Still can't find concretely what a fresh PS5 OS is now or at any time in the past out of the box or whether it has increased in size through firmware which seems unlikely. Seems to be a Sony secret with people just making wild guesses.

And damn, stick an SSD in that PC, you can get 1TB so, so cheap now. 

Last edited by LegitHyperbole - on 30 April 2025