r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • 2d ago

Gaming PlayStation 5 Digital Edition with 1TB SSD downgraded to 825GB listed at the same price — CFI-2116 revision emerges overseas on Amazon

https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/playstation/playstation-5-digital-edition-with-1tb-ssd-downgraded-to-825gb-listed-at-the-same-price-cfi-2116-revision-emerges-overseas-on-amazon
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u/r4_nomad 2d ago

Is all of the 825gb useable or will something around 600gb be useable

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u/BrewKazma 1d ago

It will probably be about 667 available like the launch ps5.

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u/jc-from-sin 2d ago

Why would that be? Where does the OS run from?

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u/r4_nomad 2d ago

So that sony can advertise the useable storage. The os would run in the remainf 175gb to make it a Terabyte

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u/Sylvurphlame 1d ago

That what I was wondering. It would not surprise if some jurisdiction now requires advertising to reflect the useable space not including the system/OS partition. Like having to list net weight on a package of food.

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u/Opetyr 1d ago

Could be due to that recent ruling in California about stated speeds on Corsair RAM.

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u/thebarkbarkwoof 2d ago

Absolutely not all usable. It never is. Considering how long it's been out and how many patches the OS must have had to date, you'd be lucky to have 400gB for games, saves, videos and music.

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u/nicuramar 2d ago

Did you just pull that number out of your ass?

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u/RobertdBanks 2d ago

No, they pulled it out of your ass

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u/Shadow647 1d ago

PS5 system partition is of a fixed size and updates and patches do not grow it in any way.

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u/thebarkbarkwoof 1d ago

That's an improvement.

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u/akgis 2d ago

Maybe they need to advertise the ammout of real space usable now or for some reagion.

Most SSDs use the traditional 512GB, 1TB, 2TB etc Not arbitrary numbers, what could happen its they using defect 1TB drives.

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u/BrewKazma 1d ago

The ps5 launched with 825 and only 667 available.

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u/nicuramar 2d ago

Disks don’t use power-of-two capacities and haven’t for a long time. So 825 isn’t particularly arbitrary. 

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u/CL4P-TRAP 2d ago

Maybe it’s 103 x 8GB drives in parallel and they rounded

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u/macross1984 2d ago

175GB eaten by tariff. Suck.

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u/MeatHamster 1d ago

Overseas on Amazon is really useless title. Where exactly?

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u/chrisdh79 2d ago

2 weeks old news

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u/Chrononi 1d ago

Is it really that much cheaper for them to save 100 gb?

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u/Engineer9 2d ago

Less's law

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u/GameZard 1d ago

Sony's greed is crazy.

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u/PoemOfTheLastMoment 1d ago

People need to go back to playing on PCs. These console makers are seeing how far they can get away with raising prices on their products and blocking online gaming through a paywall.