How do game discs work on consoles?

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I’m curious about how game discs function on consoles: do they actually read data from the disc or simply use it as a key?

I understand for online games why the storage space is so large but what about story games? I got a PS5 with a disc drive thinking I could save some storage space, but it seems like it takes up the same amount of space that a downloaded game would.

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Game disks are both the data and the license you need to play the
When you insert your disk the console downloads/installs the data since loading data from its own storage(ssd/hdd) is faster
But the license is kept on the disk so whenever you want to access those data you have to insert the disk again

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