MWEB GameZone writes: "Not enough hard drive space. Do you know the feels?
With games becoming more digital focus, console updates & the massive size of current AAA games 500GB is looking smaller by the day."
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Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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More space would be nice. 500GB on the consoles are not enough. Luckily PS makes it easy enough to replace the drive with a bigger one.
2tb minimum imo.
Even the 1TB hard drives won't be enough soon, and will be swallowed up quickly.
to be fair to Xbox, they solved that issues relatively quickly with allowing external drives... solved the problem for me pretty quickly
I just was updating my comments in another thread about this topic. FYI, here's a repost so people know what's possible.
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With that much data to potentially lose, you should think about using a USB RAID 1 enclosure for your XO.
Here's one that works with the XO.
http://www.amazon.com/Media...
You can use a RAID 5\10 enclosure that can be faster, though I prefer RAID 1 enclosures that don't make the drives dependent on the RAID logic; that way, the XO can read from either disk outside of the enclosure, by using a USB adapter.
@Disagree, I don't know how anyone can sleep well at night with over 1TB of data loss possible and potentially weeks of frustration looming, if the disk fails. PSUs and hard disks are what fail most in computers... they're practically guaranteed to fail, given enough time.
SSD is becoming a good option, though a RAID enclosure is less expensive than SSD for the same or much more space, and the first generations of SSDs were scary in how they could just brick one day without warning (I generally only use Samsung SSDs now, the 850 EVOs are great... to maximize space, my systems use 3 of them in RAID-5 for 1500MB reads and 850 writes without requiring a RAID card... on Intel chipsets, only writes are faster at 1250MB with 3 disk RAID 0... the chipset maxes at 1500MB reads).
If wanting the ultimate in performance and reliability, get two RAID 5 enclosures (second for failover) and use RAID 5 to maximize space while the SSDs maximize the enclosure's throughput... I think anyone that has lots of money should go that route, if they're serious about collecting XO games.
What XO really needs is a backup feature similar to PS4, especially since it's better designed for that, because PS4 requires an ugly cable sticking out the front when leaving a backup drive connected.
Edit: I should mention that, although I think the money is no object SSD+RAID5 route should improve performance, the simplicity and much lower cost of mirroring a couple of 3-6TB disks is really a better way to go for serious collecting, unless you just have to have the best and fastest possible.
@343_Guilty_Spark, you're BACKWARDS... you're posting drivel... I don't even own that device or have anything to do with the company. I was just trying to be helpful with everyone now realizing they need more space than 500GB.
@GameSpawn, I agree with you some; however, re-installing over 1TB is REALLY inconvenient (my original reply was to someone who had 4.5TB for his XO), many people have the extra money if they have that much content, and people probably didn't know it was possible... that's why I posted about it.
On a related note, I'd really like to know if XO can work normally after an internal disk failure... anyone know if someone has tested if XO works after a disk failure, leaving only the 8GB of flash and\or an external drive working?