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      03-19-2020, 09:13 AM   #40
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825GB of storage I think is the differential of a 1TB drive minus the overhead of bits (a 1TB drive doesn’t partition out to 1TB when formatted) and then the PS5 OS. Although it appears the OS is pushing 100GB itself which is ridiculous because the PS4 OS is only (guessing here from my HDD upgrade) 8GB for the foundation plus the patches and stuff bringing it to ~40GB. It’s possible that it’s a 960GB storage instead of a real 1TB drive (yes, that’s a thing) which would bring the OS down to a reasonable ~50GB.

Another thing to consider is that the XBSX is going to require a custom designed storage expansion, while the PS5 is suppose to have a standard NVMe slot which you can readily buy now. Yes, there will be "verified" compatible models from manufacturers by Sony. That doesn't mean you couldn't buy a top end NVMe SSD on the market and put it in there (assuming it's the same interface like PCIe Gen3(4) x4). Since the interface of the PS5 NVMe expansion isn't known, nor the interface of the storage expansion of the XBSX, it's possible this is where the PS5 gets the one up on XBSX. The PS5 already has a faster factory storage interface than the XBSX (8-9GB/s compessed vs 6GB/s compressed). How much of a difference this will make with games is unknown right now, but it could be the difference between a minute loading screen and a 1.5 minute loading screen (as games get bigger this will become more noticeable).

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