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

  • jackfrost@lemm.eeEnglish
    11·
    1 year 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·
      1 year 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·
      1 year 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.