Re:PS5 Teardown [video]
by nsriv on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @04:59PM
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The proprietary memory card is going to be necessary for storing/accessing new titles designed to make use of their Velocity Architecture, any old external will do for games Xbox One or back-compatible games.
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Re:PS5 Teardown [video]
by kumarharsh on Friday October 09, 2020 @12:08AM
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That's not entirely correct. You can use any regular old SSD: https://www.gamespot.com/articles/xbox-games-on-an-external-...
Not sure why they didn't enable storage tiering for regular external HDDs.
It would be far faster to move a game from external HDD back to the Velocity SSD before playing than to download the entire game again from the internet.
Feels like a money grab tbh.
Re:PS5 Teardown [video]
by chrisfosterelli on Wednesday October 07, 2020 @09:42PM
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> Not sure why they didn't enable storage tiering for regular external HDDs.
They did: "A USB 3.1 drive can also carry Xbox Series games as storage, which can be transferred to Series X or S's internal SSD or Storage Expansion Card to then be played."
https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/xbox-series-ssd-expansion...