Starfield is now available to preload on Xbox Series X/S consoles and PC, meaning we now know its install size. On PC, …

On PC, the game is 139.84 GB. On console, it’s 100.19 GB for Standard or 117.07 GB for the Premium Edition

  • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
    16·
    11 months ago

    I picked up a 1TB NVMe for literally $38 this week. Absolutely absurd how inexpensive SSDs are right now.

    • jackfrost@lemm.eeEnglish
      11·
      11 months ago

      Be careful, most cheap NVMe drives have low endurance. Llike, not “Oh, you’re just hand wringing about nothing,” endurance ratings but an actually and relevantly low number of terabytes that can be written before the drive becomes failure-prone. They also usually lack a DRAM cache, so certain operations can be as slow as a mechanical hard drive, thereby negating the major advantage of opting for solid-state storage.

      • Dandroid@dandroid.appEnglish
        6·
        11 months ago

        They were all that price unless I went up to PCIe 4.0, which my laptop doesn’t support. I got a well-known brand. But thanks for the heads up!

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        2·
        11 months ago

        If you’re running a database server or something with lots of writing and data you don’t want to lose, I can see the concern.

        But a drive for gaming is the best possible use case for a lower endurance drive. Even a poor drive can write the whole thing 200 times. I doubt many people would even get close to that.

    • DarkWasp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      11 months ago

      This could be a problem for console players though, especially those with a Series S which can’t run new games off an external.