Here's something i found interesting: credit to u/lonelymarine on reddit. "It's actually 256GB less storage, but for some reason the press lets Sony get away with basically lying about the PS5's storage capacity. We know from teardowns (and common sense) that the original "825GB" PS5 has 6x 128GB NAND dies inside, which those skilled in basic math might find only adds up to 768, not 825. "But everyone lies about storage capacity!" you say. This is true...kind of. But not in the particular way Sony is lying about it.
It's true that old spinning rust measured in decimal instead of binary so they could advertise, say, a ~930GB drive as "1 TB", and everyone got used to this. When NAND came along with its need to leave some cells unused in order ensure reliability and performance, the storage manufacturers took that difference between the decimal and binary capacities that consumers had come to expect and used it for over-provisioning. So if you buy a 512GB SSD, Windows will report it as ~465GB while the controller reserves the reset of the 512GB that really is there as over-provisioning. (500/480GB drives are the same 512GB physical capacity with more space reserved for over-provisioning).
Every single piece of solid state storage you buy, from cheap SD cards to high-end enterprise SSDs, from every manufacturer, advertises their capacity this way, with only one exception: the fat PS5. With that device, presumably to make the advertised capacity seem closer to the Series X than it really was, Sony sold a physically 768GB SSD - still using the industry standard method of over-provisioning - as "825GB" by then running the binary to decimal conversion again in the other direction. This is a level of deceptive hitherto unseen in this space outside of outright scams. With every other HDD and SSD, the advertised capacity represents, at the very least, the amount of storage space that is available to store data in decimal form, even if you'll never see that actual number on your computer. But for the PS5 alone, this is not the case - that 825GB was never available to the OS to store data, not even in decimal measurements. Hence why you end up with a comparatively massive amount of your advertised 825GB "missing" out of the box.
(Even after Sony also did the sneaky trick of making their OS display storage capacity in decimal instead of binary, something they sadly aren't alone in doing but is also stupid because it makes file sizes not align to how much space they seem to take up on the disk, but that's another rant for another time.)
TL;DR: Sony is using bad math that no one else in the industry uses to lie about the PS5's storage size. "
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Re: Rumour: To Avoid Even More PS5 Price Increases, Digital Edition to Get Reduced SSD Space
Here's something i found interesting: credit to u/lonelymarine on reddit.
"It's actually 256GB less storage, but for some reason the press lets Sony get away with basically lying about the PS5's storage capacity. We know from teardowns (and common sense) that the original "825GB" PS5 has 6x 128GB NAND dies inside, which those skilled in basic math might find only adds up to 768, not 825. "But everyone lies about storage capacity!" you say. This is true...kind of. But not in the particular way Sony is lying about it.
It's true that old spinning rust measured in decimal instead of binary so they could advertise, say, a ~930GB drive as "1 TB", and everyone got used to this. When NAND came along with its need to leave some cells unused in order ensure reliability and performance, the storage manufacturers took that difference between the decimal and binary capacities that consumers had come to expect and used it for over-provisioning. So if you buy a 512GB SSD, Windows will report it as ~465GB while the controller reserves the reset of the 512GB that really is there as over-provisioning. (500/480GB drives are the same 512GB physical capacity with more space reserved for over-provisioning).
Every single piece of solid state storage you buy, from cheap SD cards to high-end enterprise SSDs, from every manufacturer, advertises their capacity this way, with only one exception: the fat PS5. With that device, presumably to make the advertised capacity seem closer to the Series X than it really was, Sony sold a physically 768GB SSD - still using the industry standard method of over-provisioning - as "825GB" by then running the binary to decimal conversion again in the other direction. This is a level of deceptive hitherto unseen in this space outside of outright scams. With every other HDD and SSD, the advertised capacity represents, at the very least, the amount of storage space that is available to store data in decimal form, even if you'll never see that actual number on your computer. But for the PS5 alone, this is not the case - that 825GB was never available to the OS to store data, not even in decimal measurements. Hence why you end up with a comparatively massive amount of your advertised 825GB "missing" out of the box.
(Even after Sony also did the sneaky trick of making their OS display storage capacity in decimal instead of binary, something they sadly aren't alone in doing but is also stupid because it makes file sizes not align to how much space they seem to take up on the disk, but that's another rant for another time.)
TL;DR: Sony is using bad math that no one else in the industry uses to lie about the PS5's storage size. "
Re: Sony Sued for 'Abusing Its Dominant Position in the Console Market'
doesn't the original model of the ps5 digital still have no disc drive compatibility, and will (probably) never get it?