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Do You Add Extra Storage to Your Playstation? (lemm.ee)
submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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I'm considering buying some extra storage space for my PS5. Last time I was out of town, my partner tried to play a game and they couldn't, because I deleted it to make room. They went to download it but it was out of space, so of course they didn't want to delete anything. That makes me sad because I want to encourage them to use it and game lol.
Plus, I think it would make it easier rather than always downloading and deleting things.

Have other people bought extra storage for PS5? What kind would you recommend?

Do you go for internal or external? Do you have the heat sink if an internal one? Is 4TB enough or overkill? I think I saw that amount somewhere once (unless I imagined it) but maybe 1 or 2 TB is good, and probably easier to find.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I just buy physical, because, ultimately, I don't replay games often. It's faster and cheaper to just download from disks. Plus, if I ever happen to move, I won't have to deal with Spectrum's shitty internet to download massive games.

[–] tamlyn 4 points 5 months ago (1 children)

If you play a game physical or digital doesn't change something for the installed game on the PS5. The ps5 doesn't run games at all from the disc, that would be way to slow, so you comment doesn't help at all for the problem of the ov

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

Yes, this is precisely why I like the PS5. You can freely install any game from any disc, and have fast loading times. This wasn't true on older consoles.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

It's faster and cheaper to just download from disks

Cheaper maybe, but installing from disc is much slower than downloading. The blu-ray drive in the PS5 has a max speed of 54MB/s. Downloads from PSN are more than twice as fast.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago (1 children)

This is true if you live in a place with good internet, which is effectively nowhere in the U.S.. I just had a friend who was basically without internet for 3 weeks because of how garbage Spectrum is. Good luck downloading a game then.

~~Or when live services shut down.~~

[–] [email protected] 0 points 5 months ago

You don’t need super fast internet for it to be faster than the optical drive though. Standard gigabit internet is enough. It’s not like the PS5 has a 10GbE port anyway.