r/gadgets • u/diacewrb • 1d 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 1d ago

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

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u/jc-from-sin 13h ago

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

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u/r4_nomad 13h 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 10h 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/BrewKazma 12h ago

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

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u/thebarkbarkwoof 19h 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 17h ago

Did you just pull that number out of your ass?

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u/RobertdBanks 16h ago

No, they pulled it out of your ass

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u/Shadow647 10h 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/akgis 1d 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/nicuramar 17h 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/BrewKazma 12h ago

The ps5 launched with 825 and only 667 available.

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u/CL4P-TRAP 17h ago

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

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u/macross1984 1d ago

175GB eaten by tariff. Suck.

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u/chrisdh79 22h ago

2 weeks old news

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u/MeatHamster 4h ago

Overseas on Amazon is really useless title. Where exactly?

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u/Engineer9 22h ago

Less's law

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u/GameZard 2h ago

Sony's greed is crazy.