PS5s appear to periodically spin whatever disc is in their drive every hour or so, and nobody can figure out why.
Now that the PS5 has been available worldwide for the better part of a week, chances are even more new details will emerge about the next-gen console. Some of those discoveries will be good, and a handful of them will be bad. Issues that have fallen into that latter category since the PS5 launched include the weird download queue bug and some of the more worrying things happening to consoles that have been placed in rest mode.
One issue to have been picked up on by multiple new PS5 owners over the weekend is neither all that good nor all that bad. It’s sort of just happening and no one can figure out why. The issue is the console deciding to spin whatever disc is in its drive about once an hour. Multiple people have taken to Reddit to ask why it’s happening, and no one can figure it out.
One Redditor reported that they had a Ghost of Tsushima disc sitting in the drive which would spin every hour or so even when not in use. “I can understand it needing to check that the disc is still there, but surely it shouldn’t need to spin it that quickly/loudly to do so,” they wrote. It will even spin when Spider-Man or Demon’s Souls is being played.
As for when a disc should spin, those of you who own a PS4 will have likely only heard it doing so when a disc is first inserted or when starting up the console if it has a disc inside. As we touched upon above, if this is a bug and the PS5 is spinning discs for no reason, it isn’t exactly a problem. However, some people have reported the spinning taking place while using media apps such as Netflix, at which point the noise might be a tad annoying.
Another of a handful of bugs for Sony to clean up in the coming days and weeks if it is in fact a bug. However, not at the top of its list of priorities right now, for sure. The rest mode and download queue issues will be numbers one and two on that list, or at least we would hope they are. The PS5’s first firmware update went live last week, but it’s still unclear what exactly it improved.
