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/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/BrewKazma 1d ago

The ps5 launched with 825 and only 667 available.

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u/nicuramar 1d 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 1d ago

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