What's so 《magic》about the PS5 ssd
What's so 《magic》about the PS5 ssd
It was just a marketing stunt, did fuck all. It's just a mediocre NVME nowadays.
Consolefags literally didn't know what an SSD was until the PS5. Meanwhile I've been using them since 2011.
It can turn hundreds of your dollars into zero dollars. Whoosh! Amazing.
It has the playstation logo on the box
thanks for beta testing them
Same. I bought my first one for the PC that I built to play Skyrim.
That too lmao
Forgot the last gen console were literally using laptop 5400rpm drives. PS4 also had a quirk where the SATA was actually a USB 2.0 interface, so it was even slower than usual.
It's turbocharged obviously!
Bros should i buy a 2tb m.2 for 150 money is that a good deal?
I knew what they were but even today I still haven't bothered getting one, do they really make such a big difference for gayming if I don't really play big AAA stuff?
depends on the drive, there are cheaper
What's so 《magic》about the PS5 ssd
it has a sony sticker covering the oem label and everyone went WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOW
Your load times will be cut in half, worst case scenario. But the biggest benefits are outside of gaming, even if your PC is an absolute toaster it'll feel snappy
they are a requirement for modern games and make older games load like instantly, wont give you more fps or anything
It was actually faster than the average NVMe drive back in 2020, fast PCIe 4.0 drives were expensive but that quickly changed and then the PS5 got left in the dust by PCIE 5.0 drives
Nothing, it was good marketing on Sony's part. They dropped the SSD talk with the PS5 Pro to talk about ray tracing and Ai upscaling like Nvidia was doing 2 years before the PS5 came out.
Nothing. They fucking lied to you.
They'll certainly shorten your load times in whatever you're playing, but they're not a necessity.
They literally had nothing else to talk about, the PS5 wasn't really much different from the Xbox Series X. So they just focused on the SSD and spewed some bullshit about 3D audio. Literally just marketing.
You can fit every single PS5 exclusive on it
For a boot drive it certainly is nowadays. You are being heavily bottlenecked if you are using a HDD as bootdrive with modern hardware/OS
They universally cut load times by insane amounts. In some cases, instant loading. It's one of the few upgrades over the past 30 years that is not a meme.
Notice it doesn't allow the PS5 to do anything the Xbox can't do with its 2.4GB/s drive. Literally just marketing. Even on PC you don't see much difference above 2-3GB/s, it becomes just big number = better
some games were actually developed with NVME in mind so they run/load faster. thats something that most people didnt understand what they were hyping it for. and judging from the replies, it seems like people STILL didnt know that.
of course when it comes down to 3rd party games, that shit didnt matter.
think beyond gaming anon, the biggest differences vs hdd are
zero seek time since no moving parts, this alone will feel incredibly faster just in everday usage with everything you do
no noise, no vibration, tiny form factor, your pc overall will be much quieter
no rack of hdds blocking your intake fans anymore
power button to desktop in 10 seconds or less
faster speed for everyday use i.e. when backing up your essential files to something like a usb 3.1 drive its damn near instant for small stuff or super fast for large files
installing windows on a clean ssd from a usb3 drive means you go from blank ssd to using your pc in mere minutes
defragging is a thing of a past, you merely run trim (or windows calls it 'optimizing') which takes seconds
Tech illiterates here
Bro, the PS5 ports on PC manage to have lower load times on inferior SSDs. It was just marketing.
Even Ratchet & Clank they would claim was impossible without the miraculous SSD runs fine from a shitty SATA and is playable with a fucking HDD.
Go ahead, disprove the PS4 claim. It's literally a shitty 5400rpm 2.5" connected to a USB 2.0 to SATA interface.
What’s special about it is that its seagate which has a great track record for reliable hardware and low fail rates
Your 250gb seagate hdd isn't keeping up.
Look at this meme setup lmao
the PS5 ports on PC manage to have lower load times on inferior SSDs
Nah ive seen the comparison videos while PC has micro stutters and freezes out the ass
I only have a 16TB for media since I'm not a retard.
They fixed that with a patch. IIRC it wasn't storing compiled shaders.
It means that the ps5 will have tons of exclusives because it won't be possible to port them to anything else.
if you want to play modern bloat games without waiting 5-10 minutes on loading screens or just to have things load instantly on your pc, also there no moving parts so you don't have to worry about dropping it and it just being fucked
meme, here's the game they claimed was "impossible" without the magic SSD running on old ass drives with a fraction of the speed
youtube.com
That's honestly a little steep, but I'm guessing it's from one of the big names. I've bought a few Silicon Power drives, they offer equivalent performance to the Samsung drives for about 2/3 of the price. I even stuck one in an enclosure for moving games between my PC and my Deck, and it's wonderfully quick. It's honestly a little frustrating at this point that the gulf in speed between SATA III SSDs and NVME is so dramatic that you get better read/write times getting an external nvme and jabbing it into a USB-C port instead of buying a 2.5 SATA SSD.
They are all about the same speed nowadays, the real difference is in endurance/reliability. That's why you always check TBW
Cost 4 times as much as the gpu. So the ps5 is 4 times worse than it should have been. Load times are fast though. And to be honest that is more important than enjoying playing.
there was no SSDs before the PS5
you had to be there, you wouldn't understand
You're welcome, poorfag.
We gotta look out for the little guys like you.
That's a good point. SP claims similar numbers to Samsung, but I've been yet to wear either drive out. I did have a Samsung 2 TB SATA 2.5 crap out on me a few months ago out of left field. Just totally crapped out, data unrecoverable, couldn't format it and reuse it. Pissed me off because I really don't have the extra cash right now for another decently high capacity drive with everything else I have going on.
my hdd still holds up!
lol
$353 to be honest.
Funny thing is that the PS5 can't even max out the pcei4 nvme connection. It ends up capping around 6000, while those types of drives can reach 7200
They really should've gone for a mediocre SSD like the Series X uses and increased the capacity, maybe invested the money in something else. It brings absolutely no benefits and limits system storage to around 660GB for games (it's a 825GB drive with the OS installed)
the ps5 is 5 years old
no one is using a HDD bro
and look at the fucking 500mb/s SATA managing to keep up the pace with the SSD that is still half the speed the one PS5 uses, absolute meme
It has blast processing!
What's the point when games stopped having loading screens and instead just mask loading times by wasting your time by forcing you to slowly walk or climb up a wall or solve vapid puzzle
All of those don't care much about the actual disk speed since they take way longer than tradtional loading anyway
Can you even play games off of this thing or is it just storage where you put the games you currently aren’t playing?
Nothing. Just get a gammix s70 blade or some other cheapo nvme ssd with the same sequential r/w specs and you'll get the same realistic performance.
adata has shit reliability
You're using it for video games, and cloud saves are a thing now. You don't lose anything if it dies prematurely. I wouldn't trust it as a boot drive with important work, but for a ps5, it's good enough, for a good chunk less than what sony's charging.
Yes.
And? It's not a hardware limitation why it can't max it out as it's components support it. And there are motherboards from 2018 that will max out to the pcei4 spec. Shit is just a software issue.
Is a Samsung 990 Pro more powerful than the PS5 SSD?
you're retarded.
It's "magic" that they can sell you a PCIe gen4 SSD at such high prices that you can get a gen5 SSD on PC for the same amount of money instead.
I have lower numbers, which makes me the victor.
I don't get it.
I didn't understand how they decided the winner, especially when so many of the ``facts of comparison'' are empty for the WD Black SN850P.
I posted the link so you could determine for yourself. My own opinion is that both are equally reliable and capable of pushing a PS5 to its limits.
Exactly this. People losing their minds over name brands when all you need is something that hits the PS5's speed requirements. Adata might not be premium, but it's not like you're storing nuclear codes on it. Worst-case scenario, you re-download your games. The whole “muh reliability” argument is overblown for basic storage.
a 1tb ssd is like $40, stop being poor
Nothing, it's the hardware I/o decompression that is the "magic"
there are motherboards from 2018 that will max out to the pcei4 spec
First PCIE4 boards came out in like 2020 retardo, PCIE3 caps at 3GB/s. And there were no CPU's that could actually push any SSD past 4GB/s till like 2022. When the PS5 came out in 2020 it was actually the fastest there was at the time.
a PCIE4 1TB SSD is $100 minimum.
that should be a pretty fast one, i got a 990 nvme and its rated at 7.4gb
I just ordered a 1TB namebrand NVME off Amazon last night for $54
Why do you lie?
I've been looking for SSD's for the past few weeks and $50 1TB gen 4 nvme's don't exist bro.
1tb 990 evo+ (7000+MB/s) are $75 everywhere right now
idk the listing i bought has been removed but this $60 one is still there