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What’s your next-gen storage strategy?
- Thread starter zombiejames
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PC
I thought it wise to buy an SN750 for my future PC when it was on supersale on Amazon months and months ago. Now that's its regular price. Oh well.
Will probably keep using my old 525GB SATA SSD and 2TB SSHD until they crap out. It's free real estate.
Maybe next year I'll add one of them PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Possibly 2TB.
PS5
Perhaps it'll come with a 2TB drive by the time I might get one. If not I'd check Sony's compatibility list and get an additional 1TB whenever prices make sense and I feel I could use one. Wouldn't bother with an external drive. I'd just put that money into the thing that makes the games go instead. Of course you'll only get 1TB compared to like 12 or something, but I'm not a gamehog like that, and it just feels like an unideal compromise.
I thought it wise to buy an SN750 for my future PC when it was on supersale on Amazon months and months ago. Now that's its regular price. Oh well.
Will probably keep using my old 525GB SATA SSD and 2TB SSHD until they crap out. It's free real estate.
Maybe next year I'll add one of them PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Possibly 2TB.
PS5
Perhaps it'll come with a 2TB drive by the time I might get one. If not I'd check Sony's compatibility list and get an additional 1TB whenever prices make sense and I feel I could use one. Wouldn't bother with an external drive. I'd just put that money into the thing that makes the games go instead. Of course you'll only get 1TB compared to like 12 or something, but I'm not a gamehog like that, and it just feels like an unideal compromise.
The storage itself isn't upgradable, but the total storage of the PS5 is expandable by adding another NVME PCIe-4 "Sony certified" SSD (for PS5 games) and external (SSD/HDD) for PS4 games, as told in the excerpts here from eurogamer: Inside Playstation 5
As you'll appreciate when you see the deep-dive presentation released today, there's a wealth of new information about Sony's next-generation console plans here, and that's before we go really in-depth with the information Mark Cerny shared with us beyond the content of today's presentation.
Same here. Might as well utilize the unlimited internet I'm already paying for.
I'll just delete the games which I don't play currently and redownload them later if I'll feel like playing them again.
PSN downloads are slow but this seems like the easiest (and cheapest) option really.
Another option is to get an external SSD and use that to move games off PS5 to PC's HDD storage. But that's a bit of a hassle for no apparent gain.
PSN downloads are slow but this seems like the easiest (and cheapest) option really.
Another option is to get an external SSD and use that to move games off PS5 to PC's HDD storage. But that's a bit of a hassle for no apparent gain.
Do we know what the expansion route is for the PS5 yet? Is there a second bay internally you can put a new SSD into, or do you have to replace the 825GB one?
If it's the first, I can get a 1TB SSD when there's one verified...but if it's the second, there's really no point spending that kind of money to get another 175GB of storage.
If it's the first, I can get a 1TB SSD when there's one verified...but if it's the second, there's really no point spending that kind of money to get another 175GB of storage.
No strategy.
Outside of FFXIV (and THPS for when I have little time to kill) I only play SP games, so I just delete them once I finish them.
I usually keep a high profile one in the back that works as a wowzer for guests who are not into games (GOW, TLOU).
So unless things explode, I should be fine with 825GBs.
Outside of FFXIV (and THPS for when I have little time to kill) I only play SP games, so I just delete them once I finish them.
I usually keep a high profile one in the back that works as a wowzer for guests who are not into games (GOW, TLOU).
So unless things explode, I should be fine with 825GBs.
I already have a 4 tb external hdd, I'm going to keep using it and move things back and forth. It's way faster than redownloading everything.
Nothing special. I'll just keep a couple of games installed that I play and remove them when I'm playing something newer. I can always install an older game if I want to play it again. I don't really see a problem. I don't need to have everything installed at once and I usually play one game and move on to the next one. I don't play any online games that aren't Monster Hunter.
Just looked up the T7 and its £197 here. At that point you might as well pay the extra £22 and get the NVME card?
Edit: Talking about the Xbox expansion card.
Can we get a breakdown of the advantages and disadvantages of having games installed on the default SSD/SSD-like drives vs regular external drives?
I've got a 4TB external drive on my PS4 and X1X, and plan to carry both over to the new consoles. I'll be keeping whatever current-gen games I'm going through on those drives while the newer stuff is installed internally.
Did they say what speed advantages a PS4/Xbox One game gets when installed on the internal drives? Is faster loading the only thing you'd lose out on playing it externally or are there are performance downgrades too?
I've got a 4TB external drive on my PS4 and X1X, and plan to carry both over to the new consoles. I'll be keeping whatever current-gen games I'm going through on those drives while the newer stuff is installed internally.
Did they say what speed advantages a PS4/Xbox One game gets when installed on the internal drives? Is faster loading the only thing you'd lose out on playing it externally or are there are performance downgrades too?
Will we have to reformat and re-download to use our current PS4 drives on PS5? Or can we easily switch back and forth.
Wondering if I need to get a new drive for PS5.
yup ssds that dont have heat sinks they will give a list of compatible ones as they come out
Exactly this.
Though the 7gps drives are looking cheaper than expected so might get one sooner.
Keep the default size. Don't buy games just to buy them. Play one or two games at most at a time, complete, delete and move on.
I'll stick with the base PS5 storage for a few months and then keep an eye on how the storage situation settles out. Should be fine with just uninstalling games here and there instead of keeping games on the drive that I'm not necessarily going to be playing anytime soon.
Same as current gen, except this time I'll use my existing usb drive for PS4 games.
Buy discs for SP games.
Buy digital for MP and indies.
Delete old games, delete disc installs first.
I might get a 2TB SSD many years from now, but if we can copy in/out of a usb drive it's just a luxury.
Buy discs for SP games.
Buy digital for MP and indies.
Delete old games, delete disc installs first.
I might get a 2TB SSD many years from now, but if we can copy in/out of a usb drive it's just a luxury.
Aren't they just installing the full game anyway though? Or just mean for easy delete and reinstall?
Cheap external USB SSD for Xbox One/360/OG Xbox games. I'll just use the S' storage for Series X/S games.
I am looking to get an 8TB external HDD to fit all of my PS4 and PS5 games on it.
I want to have everything locally on my drive.
I want to have everything locally on my drive.
No plan.
I had an external storage throughout the current generation, but never used it.
I play a game and move on to the next. This time, I will delete them.
I had an external storage throughout the current generation, but never used it.
I play a game and move on to the next. This time, I will delete them.
Two external drives on my X for all previous gen games. Series X enhanced and native games will go on the internal SSD until i eventually spend the money on that 1tb card.
