50 GB so a lot of net data streaming right?

[Celestial Lexi]

is it confirmed?
I rather have my games use my 4tb ssd instead of downloading data daily

[Taterness]

If you downloaded the entire Earth for this game you would need somewhere around 2 petabytes of storage space! The largest HDDs right now are around 24 terabytes. So you would need about 85 of those drives.

[Adam Beckett]

This is - while technically true - widely exaggerated?

I downloaded 'all' of MSFS 2024 locally and it did fit just fine on my 4 TB SSD.

I would argue, you can have a decently big enough local cache, so you do not need to constantly (re-download) the same env files. The game gives you a base line (much like XPlane, FSX) and you can choose your fav destinations, areas for finer detail (the way we did with ORBX, etc).

That way, the only online bandwidth traffic is reduced to real-time weather, traffic, multiplayer ...or, you can turn that off.

Nobody needs the 10 centimeter detail mesh and textures of 10.000s of miles of Earth's nothingness.

[Kambien]

Originally posted by Taterness:

If you downloaded the entire Earth for this game you would need somewhere around 2 petabytes of storage space! The largest HDDs right now are around 24 terabytes. So you would need about 85 of those drives.

CEPH is pretty great for this. I have two CEPH clusters, one is 2.7 Pb, the other is 3.5 Pb.

[BullRot]

To be fair, the terrain mesh, ground textures aren't so detailed and hi-res to occupy as much space. It's ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. They are heavily compressed. Even on Prepar3D whole planet ultra detailed mesh as an addon is like 150GB, earth haven't changed since.

Textures from Bing are not that extra Quad-HD but low res in the sim, even in detailed places and most is just blurry / on par with ORBX for P3D.
A total of 500GB would be just.

[omgitsbees]

I would rather just have the 150GB download again, then deal with whatever it is going on here.

[Celestial Lexi]

500GB is fine,

but whats this nonsense about pb lol are you new to this? obv a troll message.

I think there should be a disclaimer the game needs heavy data streaming

[Milhouz]

Originally posted by Celestial Lexi:

500GB is fine,

but whats this nonsense about pb lol are you new to this? obv a troll message.

I think there should be a disclaimer the game needs heavy data streaming

They've announced this for a while now that most of the content was going to rely on downloading content via Streaming.

It's why the game is required to be always online.