SSD for PS4

[Renegade7369]

I am planning on buying a PS4 in the next couple weeks so I can play destiny now and be ready for games like No Man's Sky and Kingdom Hearts 3 and the Final Fantasy 7 remake.

 

I also read about swapping out the PS4 hard drive for an SSD.

Just wanted to ask if anyone here has done it and/or if it is worth doing.

 

 

[Renegade7369]

enjoy 0 load times, other than that, eh. lot of money for the size you'll want

Better load times are obvious, but are SSDs at a point where its reliable enough for a console? Consoles go through a ton of read/write cycles with game updates and caching and stuff.

 

Also, are there any games that just don't work with SSDs or anything?

 

And yea, I figured like a 512GB. I thought about a 256GB since ill probably only ever own 3 or 4 games for it, but with updates and stuff, I still don't know if that will be enough.

[Renegade7369]

SSD's are fairly reliable, it's not like the console is defragging it every 20 minutes.

Games not working on SSD? Friend, you can format an SSD to any file format you like. It is like any other drive, just the method of storing is different. Hell, you could probably throw FAT onto it, but i don't know why you'd want to

I know you can format SSDs to work just like regular HDDs, but i meant like are there any games where the SSDs load maps or something too fast and causes graphical errors because the game engine cant keep up with the textures being loaded or something crazy like that.

 

I know console hardware isn't exactly amazing, so I would not be surprised if something like this happened.

[Unhelpful]

Better load times are obvious, but are SSDs at a point where its reliable enough for a console? Consoles go through a ton of read/write cycles with game updates and caching and stuff.

 

Also, are there any games that just don't work with SSDs or anything?

 

And yea, I figured like a 512GB. I thought about a 256GB since ill probably only ever own 3 or 4 games for it, but with updates and stuff, I still don't know if that will be enough.

SSDs are very VERY reliable.

 

http://techreport.com/review/27909/the-ssd-endurance-experiment-theyre-all-dead

 

These are OLD SSDs, about 1 generation back. These earliest death still lasted hundreds of TBs. The longest lived 2 lived past 2PB.

[watts300]

I am planning on buying a PS4 in the next couple weeks so I can play destiny now and be ready for games like No Man's Sky and Kingdom Hearts 3 and the Final Fantasy 7 remake.

 

I also read about swapping out the PS4 hard drive for an SSD.

Just wanted to ask if anyone here has done it and/or if it is worth doing.

 

PS4 uses SATA2.  

 

The cost-to-storage-to-performance comparison makes it not worth it at all.  Stick with a regular HDD and you're good. 

 

 

http://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation-4/PlayStation_4_Hard_Drive_Speed_Test_Comparison

 

Barely an improvement at all. I can vouch for this because I had a PC motherboard that only had SATA2. Installing an SSD had an improvement, but not a very large one. 

 

 

A second faster. If that. 

[Nena Trinity]

1. it cost to much per GB also the PS4 cannot really use it.

2. it will fail after a while not sure how long but there was a SSD feature the PS4 does not have and therefore it will fail...

[Renegade7369]

PS4 uses SATA2.  

 

The cost-to-storage-to-performance comparison makes it not worth it at all.  Stick with a regular HDD and you're good. 

 

 

http://www.ign.com/wikis/playstation-4/PlayStation_4_Hard_Drive_Speed_Test_Comparison

 

Barely an improvement at all. I can vouch for this because I had a PC motherboard that only had SATA2. Installing an SSD had an improvement, but not a very large one. 

 

 

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A second faster. If that. 

So its pretty much not worth it at all?

 

I could have swore I saw a youtube video where Battlefield or COD maps loaded in about half the time.

[watts300]

So its pretty much not worth it at all?

 

I could have swore I saw a youtube video where Battlefield or COD maps loaded in about half the time.

I guess it could ultimately depend on how much money you have burning a hole in your pocket.  500GB SSDs are still around $200 or a little less. I'd just hate to spend that much money on the small performance increase I'm very confident it would have. 

 

I personally wouldn't bother. Newegg has a Samsung 2TB, 5400rpm, 2.5" drive that'll work in the PS4 for just under $100. That's what I'd get.  It sure is a helluvalotta space.  Four times the space for about half the cost of an SSD capacity worth getting. 5400rpm wouldn't be a negative because I've got my PS4's original hard drive on my shelf -- it, too, is 5400.

[Nexxus]

Dunno about ps4 but I know on ps3 this was done and tested with GT5 and it was entirely pointless to do it.

Dont bother.

[amas]

tomshardware tests

 

Is it faster? Yes, but seeing as how the majority of games rely on dumping a lot of its data into the hard drive, you would be restricted for space. A 1tb SSD would set you back around $250~. Is shaving a few seconds off of boot/game loading worth that much? Up to you. 

[KdB_TEKKI]

I wouldn't listen to any of these people saying it really isn't worth it. To me, it very well is. I have a 1TB SSD Samsung 840 Evo in my PS4 and a 500GB one in my PS3. I have bought about half of my library digitally, and have seen lots of time saved versus the disc based loading and over the standard 5400rpm hdd that it comes with. For me, No lag, no texture pop, and even saving as little as 5 seconds on some games makes it worth it to me. I know other games have even bigger time savings so it will balance itself out. Trust me, if you can afford an SSD, do it, you will not regret it!

[Kiosk]

It's your dime and you should get what will make you happy. I would go for the SSD if you got the disposable income, though on a side note wouldn't it be

better to wait for the possible "Playstation 4.5" that will probably be announced at E3 this year?

[kronickiller]

 

[Drunken Savior]

Not worth it.  A 7200RPM 1TB HDD is $60.  A 1TB SSD will be will be over $200.  Over 3x the cost just to save 1-3 seconds on most games?

 

Unless you're just ridiculously flush with cash, buying a 2TB Seagate HDD for $95 will save you time (over the default 500GB 5400RPM drive) and quadruple your space.

 

If you ARE flush, just go yolo and get a 2TB SSD for $600 and enjoy the best of both worlds (speed and space).