mine sounds like a beast with my 4k blu-rays..really makes me wish i had gotten the ps5 with a drive.
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I find it hard to buy physical games on my Series X because of how loud the disc drive is
- Thread starter jokkir
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For the record, you can very easily pop open the cart slot and swap cartridges without removing the switch from the dock. I do it all the time.
damn, maybe its my setup but neither the XSX or ps5 seem particularly loud playing discs...the latter moreso when installing them though
ehh folks say this like every cycle
ehh folks say this like every cycle
I am 100% telling you that my friend! At least it's not loud enough to notice.
This is to move the next segment of the population on digital only.
Is it really that loud? Is the disk drive sound just amplified since you can't hear the console itself? I plan on never inserting any type of media into the drive for the life of my console, so I'll never know.
Sheit!!! I have the DE and it's been pretty nice. I've not put a disk in my SX and from this thread, I'm glad I'm digital.
My PS5 is also quite loud especially if I turn it on with 13 Sentinels inside, it sounds like its gonna implode, for some reason its only been with 13 Sentinels so far.
I haven't had too many noise problems with the Series X disc drive. I can hear it and occasionally it gets louder but never bothers me. PS5 on the other hand is loud as hell. I'm almost entirely digital and mostly just use these for my physical movie collection so it's not really a big deal to me at this point anyway though.
The disc drive in my X isn't loud, but the console itself is dead silent no matter how intensive the game is. I actually questioned whether or not the fan was working. My PS5 drive used to be loud but fortunately a firmware update lessened the number of times the drive gets revved up. The console itself is loud enough with fan noise and coil whine that I've made my X my new main console to avoid the sound. My old PS4 Pro was even louder.
Same for me. PS5 felt very loud with all sorts of vibrations at first when reading discs, but now I barely hear it when the disc spins. Sony did reduce the speed of the spinning which helped, but the actual vibrations just went away quite a bit later. Weird.
Other than the disc drive, the console is basically completely silent.
It's loud compared to the silence when there is no disc in it, for sure. But I've never thought it was overly loud for the function of reading a disc. It's just that I notice it more when I actually do put a disc in because it is dead quiet at all other times.
So here the little guy is, trying its best to do its job that I very rarely ask it to do, and when it gives me even the normal disc read sounds I'm side-eyeing it like it's the most offensive thing I've ever heard a piece of electronics do.
So here the little guy is, trying its best to do its job that I very rarely ask it to do, and when it gives me even the normal disc read sounds I'm side-eyeing it like it's the most offensive thing I've ever heard a piece of electronics do.
The only noise I ever get from my machines is coil whine from the PS5 Digital Edition in taxing games like Ratchet, though its not super loud, just is audible. And my Xbox Series X always revs one time when I load into multiplayer in CoD Vanguard.
Between the disc drives and fans and coil whine, people here either have busted consoles, incredible hearing, or love to exaggerate. Sitting around 6 feet from my console, I don't think I've ever heard it make any discernible sound.
I just realized I have never put a disc in my Series X at all since launch day, I should throw one in just to see if it has noises. My PS5 used to have some loud noise for about 10 seconds when I would first put in a disc but now it's silent all the time, guessing a firmware upgrade handled it at some point.
I'm a "physical whenever possible" guy, but the Series X has me wondering if there's any point. Because it seems that the disc doesn't do shit, anyway. The "update" that is immediately required is so huge, it's obviously the whole game. I'm surprised the system bothers to even keep spinning the disc after it recognizes it.
On the topic of drive noise, I swear, every console since the 360 has claims of being "dead silent" and also "sounds like a jet engine". For the record, I'd rate all of these the same, for me, which is "loud enough to notice, not loud enough to complain about":
360, PS3, PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, Series X, PS5
I have to assume they're all capable of either. Is it the ambient temperature? Is is airflow? Acoustics? Or just system wars? I don't know, but there's zero consistency.
On the topic of drive noise, I swear, every console since the 360 has claims of being "dead silent" and also "sounds like a jet engine". For the record, I'd rate all of these the same, for me, which is "loud enough to notice, not loud enough to complain about":
360, PS3, PS4, PS4 Pro, Xbox One, Series X, PS5
I have to assume they're all capable of either. Is it the ambient temperature? Is is airflow? Acoustics? Or just system wars? I don't know, but there's zero consistency.
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Hmm... My XSX is fairly quiet and unlike PS5 doesn't randomly start spinning disk even if you are doing something completely unrelated to whatever is in the disk drive.
PS5 is a freaking jet engine when disk spins up. It's super annoying.
PS5 is a freaking jet engine when disk spins up. It's super annoying.
That's why you can preload any game that you want, even if you're going to use a disc.
I don't install games from discs anymore on SX.
I don't mind the download time. I mind the download size. Patches should be patches, not the whole game in disguise.
Same reason I only get physical games on my Switch. I can't trust Nintendo with anything online related, they are pretty mediocre at it.
Same.
Like i said, you can preload any game ahead of getting it even on disc and the it will be updated when you insert the disc to play.
The preload is the size of the entire game for your console. What i'm saying is that you don't need the disc for anything but check ownership of the game since you don't need it to install the game.
And I'm saying, I want the game to be on the disc. That's kind of the point. I didn't buy the game on disc because I want a tiny poster.
I tried a Blu ray once on the drive and it's far too loud over my stand alone player. I'm all digital game wise on the system.
That is happening with all three console manufacturers, kinda hard to have a complete game on disc since most of the time the game on disc will have a day one patch at least.
In the case of Guardians of the Galaxy they had something like two or three updates before the game released.
So far, my experience on the Series X (which is only a few games, admittedly) is that the "patch" is clearly the entire game. On other systems, the patch is maybe 10% the size of the whole game.
Doesn't seem like the noise would make it harder, all you have to do is go to store physically or online and order it.
Same here.
Same here.
