Now that is the big question. When it comes to random access times, the earlier generation (Gen3) is not really slower than the current one or the built-in drive, it depends more on the drive controller chip and the cache memory onboard.
Gen4 is only faster in linear reads of large file chunks, and that doesn’t happen…

You are not replacing it, you are expanding your storage to be able to play more games without first moving them from external USB storage to the internal drive, deleting/moving others in the process.
The size of the internal PS5 SSD is woefully under-dimensioned for the sizes of current-gen games, if you aren’t only…

You are contradicting yourself.
On the one side, you accept in your last paragraph that a title, that touted that it would only be possible to make “due to the performance of the fast SSD of the PS5" runs on a drive that is much slower.

In the first paragraph, you are saying, that the PS5 benchmarks the drive before…

The “Youtuber” you are discarding here is a professional game programmer, who has been doing this for a living. On his channel he regularly explains how theoretically “impossible” things were done on older consoles, and he has been active until the most recent generation (and probably might still be, though under NDA…

You didn’t get the point of the video, and didn’t understand his technical explanations it seems then.
What he shows is that the new Ratchet & Clank does nothing that is so special that it would NEED the speed of the PS5 SSD at all. Even with the high-res textures it uses, the moments when you travel to “other worlds”…

The paragraph you quoted has been dismissed for some time by industry insiders. This was nicely shown in the following video:

wouldn’t fly in Germany. Back here, the GEMA handles all licensing of artists under their wing, and also most foreign artists that are handled by other companies in their home countries. It wants to get a list of each song played, how much of it has been played, how big the audience was etc... after each “live”…

haha, so true the last two parts. “Spilled water on it” and “got run over by car because I forgot it on the roof / left it on the trunk” are the 2 main reasons for defective laptops I’ve seen :D
The only difference: A macbook pro that got a sip of water was dead. A Thinkpad that got run over by a SUV still booted and…

In short: No. More “raw power” means more amps, and more amps means more heat - first at the converter circuitry which converts it into the correct voltage for the chips to work with, second in the chips themselves. If they start to throttle it is because they’ve exceeded the maximum power that was deemed safe for…

The biggest complaint I have with this - and ALL Teslas - is the lack of an estate. I want a large cargo area without having an ugly, ugly, UGLY unnecessarily large and high SUV bullshit thing.
Give me a practical BEV estate for a reasonable price, doesn’t need 300hp or go from 0-60 in under 8 seconds or something. It…

Most modern components have circuitry to prevent catastrophic fails. What you might see are hiccups, stutters in the rendered graphics or game crashes before the chip is really damaged. That would signal that it’s time to clean out the dust from the coolers and change the thermal interface material, which isn’t…

Older consoles didn’t run nearly as close to the maximum temperature the silicon can endure. Also, their cooling was simpler, and normal thermal paste also has a shelf life (which is the reason why basically all consoles from the 360/PS3 era onwards need to be disassembled and get new thermal paste to make them really…

That was more a thing of Kia outright buying the molds and Blueprints for the Elan and continuing to manufacture it after Lotus had ceased to do so. Iirc they also added some safety equipment.

It is the guns. I rarely play anymore these days, and any time I come back there is too much new stuff for me to absorb, and I had to realize a long time ago that I simply do not have the time to “git gud” at this.
But the gunplay... it is just amazing. It feels right. It felt good with D1 on Xbox. It feels perfect…

This! Wanted to chime in ealier, but Syrinscape is really, really great. Iirc, in the early days, they had one-time sales where you could get a whole lot of back catalogue for a one-time price. And the mood some of these soundsets convey is just glorious.
Also, try to get hold of an old PC game CD: Thunderscape, World…

you can’t say for sure, because the triggers when Denuvo checks for what are individually determined for each game to throw off hackers.
We will be able to tell for sure when a cracked version is out and suddenly runs great.

Mercedes said for their automatic transmissions in the 90s: Lifetime filling. Except when used as a Taxi, then change the fluids every 60.000km.

Had a lowered Volvo 850 T5, FWD. I could drive through muddy fields after a festival where SUVs and a Jeep Cherokee got stuck.
Similar stuff in winter, as long as the snow didnt go over the bumper, that thing just went on without a problem. Easy to maneuver, as long as you kept sane on the pedal.

Two best things when…

Want a better example? Forza Horizon, the last two installments. The credits went on for ages... and I was positively in shock at how many people contributed to the game. They even listed all the people of all the subcontractors, they had a small company that made the foliage for parts of the world, and it seemed like…

Daewoo entered the german market by selling their first generation Daewoo Nexia (basically a refreshed Opel Kadett E which the Germans were well accustomed to) at a utility store chain for cheap. It was a loophole, the cars were meant for other markets, but sat on a lot for over a year, and then sold for really,…