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256gb Switch 2...

On par with PS5's 667gb available space 10 22.22%
 
Worse than PS5's 667gb available space 26 57.78%
 
Better than PS5's 667gb available space 9 20.00%
 
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G2ThaUNiT said:
LegitHyperbole said:

I don't think so. My slim definitely has only 848 usable GB only from a 1TB drive. 

Yeah which 1TB is equivalent to 1,024 gigabytes. So that's definitely not adding up lol

No, 1 TB (Terabyte) is equivalent to 1,000 GB (Gigabytes) or 1,000,000 MB (Megabytes) or 1,000,000,000 KB (Kilobytes) or 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes.

1 TiB (Tebibyte) is equivalent to 1,024 GiB (Gibibytes) or 1,048,576 MiB (Mebibytes) or 1,073,741,824 KiB (Kibibytes) or 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes.

Mega ROFL! (or Mebi ROFL?)

A GiB is based on powers of 2 (2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes), while a GB is based on powers of 10 (10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes)

binary system vs. decimal system

Last edited by Conina - on 29 April 2025

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Conina said:
G2ThaUNiT said:

Yeah which 1TB is equivalent to 1,024 gigabytes. So that's definitely not adding up lol

No, 1 TB (Terabyte) is equivalent to 1,000 GB (Gigabytes) or 1,000,000 MB (Megabytes) or 1,000,000,000 KB (Kilobytes) or 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes.

1 TiB (Tebibyte) is equivalent to 1,024 GiB (Gibibytes) or 1,048,576 MiB (Mebibytes) or 1,073,741,824 KiB (Kibibytes) or 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes.

Mega ROFL! (or Mebi ROFL?)

Bruh, you got me losing my mind here

This something that's taught in Europe? Cuz it definitely isn't taught here in the US lol at least the technical differences that's generally used.

Last edited by G2ThaUNiT - on 29 April 2025

You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind

"Thirty years ago GiBs as a measurement didn’t even exist. GBs, at that time, represented both units of measurement depending on the context. This confusion has persisted to the present day."
This explains it lol.
Makes me look at storage differently. Even in my networking classes, GiB was never used for measurements. I'm guessing it's primarily used in Europe.


You called down the thunder, now reap the whirlwind

Conina said:
G2ThaUNiT said:

Yeah which 1TB is equivalent to 1,024 gigabytes. So that's definitely not adding up lol

No, 1 TB (Terabyte) is equivalent to 1,000 GB (Gigabytes) or 1,000,000 MB (Megabytes) or 1,000,000,000 KB (Kilobytes) or 1,000,000,000,000 Bytes.

1 TiB (Tebibyte) is equivalent to 1,024 GiB (Gibibytes) or 1,048,576 MiB (Mebibytes) or 1,073,741,824 KiB (Kibibytes) or 1,099,511,627,776 Bytes.

Mega ROFL! (or Mebi ROFL?)

A GiB is based on powers of 2 (2^30 = 1,073,741,824 bytes), while a GB is based on powers of 10 (10^9 = 1,000,000,000 bytes)

binary system vs. decimal system

This reminds me of DNA for some reason. Also, it only matters the ammount of games you can fit on the system and that's exactly 677GB of games not 716. 



LegitHyperbole said:

Also, it only matters the ammount of games you can fit on the system and that's exactly 677GB of games not 716. 

Wrong again. You can fit 716 GB on the system, which is the same as 667 GiB... or 667 "Sony-GB".



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haxxiy said:
Pyro as Bill said:

Silly comparison. It's a tradeoff between having mediocre loading speeds v acceptable v fastest. I can understand why some gaming systems have to value quantity over quality but Nintendo doesn't have those issues so they use superior metrics.

The UFS 3.1 interface in the Switch 2's internal storage is much slower than the PS5/XBS's PCI-e 4.0 SSDs, though.

Granted, its games are also much smaller, so loading speeds in many cases should be a wash, really, barring some CPU-limited scenario.

Yes and no. It's much slower than the PS5's 5.5GB/s SSD. It's slower than the Xbox Series SDD but not by near as much. 2.4GB/s vs. 2.1GB/s. The Xbox Series SSD has mid-tier PCIE 3.0 transfer speeds. A fast 3.0 SSD will give you over 3GB/s.



Conina said:
LegitHyperbole said:

Also, it only matters the ammount of games you can fit on the system and that's exactly 677GB of games not 716. 

Wrong again. You can fit 716 GB on the system, which is the same as 667 GiB... or 667 "Sony-GB".

Talking out of my ass here, so correct me if I'm wrong... But, whathever measurement the system uses for storage... Will be the same for the games, right? Like, if your PS5 says you have 667 GB and it actually means 716 GB... If a game is listed as a 60 GB file on your PS5, it would actually be higher too, right? So, in the end... It doesn't matter if it we use GiB or GB, because both the games and the storage would use the same measurement and increase or decrease together.



Vodacixi said:

Talking out of my ass here, so correct me if I'm wrong... But, whathever measurement the system uses for storage... Will be the same for the games, right? Like, if your PS5 says you have 667 GB and it actually means 716 GB... If a game is listed as a 60 GB file on your PS5, it would actually be higher too, right?

Yeah, that's right. But this part of the discussion started with the wrong assumption, that the PS5 OS uses 150 GB of the storage.

But it is schizophrenic.

When Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo sell the hardware, they advertise it with x Gigabyte/Terabyte (based on the decimal system). But when you use the system, storage is counted as x Gibibyte/Tebibyte (based on the binary system), but shown as "Gigabyte"/"Terabyte" (based on the binary system).

That is especially annoying, if you use the metric system for any weights and measures based on the decimal system.

  • 1 kilometer = 1000 meters
  • 1 kilogram = 1000 grams
  • 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts, 1 megawatt = 1,000,000 watts, 1 gigawatt = 1,000,000,000 watts
  • 1 kilohertz = 1000 hertz, 1 megahertz = 1,000,000 hertz, 1 gigahertz = 1,000,000,000 hertz
  • 1 kilojoule = 1000 joules, 1 megajoule = 1,000,000 joules, 1 gigajoule = 1,000,000,000 joules
  • 1 kilovolt = 1000 volts, 1 megavolt = 1,000,000 volts, 1 gigavolt = 1,000,000,000 volts
  • 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts, 1 megawatt = 1,000,000 watts, 1 gigawatt = 1,000,000,000 watts

1.21 gigawatt are 1,210,000,000 watts.... NOT 1,299,227,607 watts!



Conina said:
Vodacixi said:

Talking out of my ass here, so correct me if I'm wrong... But, whathever measurement the system uses for storage... Will be the same for the games, right? Like, if your PS5 says you have 667 GB and it actually means 716 GB... If a game is listed as a 60 GB file on your PS5, it would actually be higher too, right?

Yeah, that's right. But this part of the discussion started with the wrong assumption, that the PS5 OS uses 150 GB of the storage.

But it is schizophrenic.

When Sony/Microsoft/Nintendo sell the hardware, they advertise it with x Gigabyte/Terabyte (based on the decimal system). But when you use the system, storage is counted as x Gibibyte/Tebibyte (based on the binary system), but shown as "Gigabyte"/"Terabyte" (based on the binary system).

That is especially annoying, if you use the metric system for any weights and measures based on the decimal system.

  • 1 kilometer = 1000 meters
  • 1 kilogram = 1000 grams
  • 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts, 1 megawatt = 1,000,000 watts, 1 gigawatt = 1,000,000,000 watts
  • 1 kilohertz = 1000 hertz, 1 megahertz = 1,000,000 hertz, 1 gigahertz = 1,000,000,000 hertz
  • 1 kilojoule = 1000 joules, 1 megajoule = 1,000,000 joules, 1 gigajoule = 1,000,000,000 joules
  • 1 kilovolt = 1000 volts, 1 megavolt = 1,000,000 volts, 1 gigavolt = 1,000,000,000 volts
  • 1 kilowatt = 1000 watts, 1 megawatt = 1,000,000 watts, 1 gigawatt = 1,000,000,000 watts

1.21 gigawatt are 1,210,000,000 watts.... NOT 1,299,227,607 watts!

That's exactly what I was saying. 



G2ThaUNiT said:
"Thirty years ago GiBs as a measurement didn’t even exist. GBs, at that time, represented both units of measurement depending on the context. This confusion has persisted to the present day."
This explains it lol.
Makes me look at storage differently. Even in my networking classes, GiB was never used for measurements. I'm guessing it's primarily used in Europe.

And the "fun" thing is RAM is measured in GB, which are actual Gigabytes from the old days, meaning 1024 MB, but disk drives are measured in "new" Gigabytes, which are 1000MB.