Much has been made of the Xbox Series X SSD. With a capacity of 1 TB, the internal disk of the new Microsoft console will offer extremely fast loading times, and in addition, it exceeds in storage the PlayStation 5 proposal by reaching the terabyte. But are we going to enjoy the whole tera?
200 GB reserved for the system
In recent days, the first technical tests of specialized media that have been able to access an Xbox Series X unit have appeared, and thanks to these tests we can now know that the 1 TB disk will not have as much capacity as what you expected to find.
The detail is in the capacity that the system is going to reserve on the disk, since it will be no less than 198 GB that the operating system monopolizes for it (nor that it was a Warzone installation). This will obviously come as a surprise to many, since willing to find the succulent terabyte figure, they will run into 802 free gigs as soon as they turn on the console for the first time.
800 GB is quite a generous capacity, however, it all depends on the size of the game installations on the disk. Taking into account the facilities that some games today have reached, it may be that more than one needs to get the services of the 1 TB expansion card that Microsoft will sell for 249.99 euros .
Internal disk or external hard disk?
But beware, because said external card will also suffer the bite of the system, and that is that all external storage will lose 80 GB of capacity due to the restrictions that the system requires. This storage space may be necessary to cover the buffer that we will need when we use the quick switch between games and other of the many functions that the console will include.
In case of occupying all the internal space of the console, we can always use USB 3.0 hard drives. The problem will be, as we have already commented previously, in that the games optimized for Xbox Series X will need to be copied to the main memory to run at the maximum speed at which they were designed, so making use of an external disk will only work for us for everything related to backward compatibility.
Less capacity than PlayStation 5?
The SSD disk that will include PlayStation 5 will be 825 GB . This a priori makes us think that it will offer more capacity than the Xbox Series X, however, we must bear in mind that PS5 will also have a space reserved for the system, and this section will be no less than 125 GB. Therefore, PlayStation 5 will be left with 700 GB free space on the SSD, a figure that will continue to be lower than that of Xbox Series X in a matter of saving games without regard. What do you think of the storage landscape that we have?
