I'd agree, but reinstalling means going through PSN's awesome speeds again.
TLoU:R is 45GB-ish. The thought of ever having to redownload it made me preemptively upgrade to 2TB.
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The best PS4 hard drive (IGN)
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TLoU:R is 45GB-ish. The thought of ever having to redownload it made me preemptively upgrade to 2TB.
joecanada
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yeah this is true, I doubt I'll ever upgrade the hard drive but I can usually download a game in 4 hours or less so it doesn't really matter to me. but if you had slower internet I could definitely see the benefits.
if only loading time gains were better then I'd jump in.
My plan all along has been to get the Seagate Backup Plus 2TB for the Spinpoint M9T, but with 3 big conferences this fall I'm hoping for an announcement of external drive support. If it doesn't happen, Boxing Day sales.
I highly recommend the 1.5 TB TravelStar. It's 5400rpm (or whatever it's called). Great space, loading times are good. And it's the same speed 5400rpm as the stock. Which my worry with going faster is overheating or loudness. This one gives me no worries with that. Highly recommended man. I have a ton of games and still have like 800 gigs to go! I'm waiting on like a 3 TB to release within the next year hopefully. Or for Sony to allow external. For now this one is great. And it's Hitachi so the quality and life is great. If I remember correctly cost me $99.
Psshhhh
I want to play anything and everything at a moments notice.
I got that way being a PC gamer too though. I like my Steam games' list white, 0-9 and A-Z.
I like to have any game ready at whim when I want to play. Plus. I don't want to have to wait for the install, plus downloading all the updates again, and DLC (they are all grouped together). Some games updates are huge. I will continue updating to bigger space as long as possible or until Sony adds external support. Which is really needed and silly not to have.
Trying to find this with little to no success.. Do you have any links? I couldn't find it on newegg or amazon.
Optimus Prime
Member
I have the Samsung SpinPoint 2TB as well. Mine also beeps, but mainly on the PS4 menu. It's not the beeps of death you'd expect of a hard drive about to fail, but more like soft chirps. I've read theories that it's the drive parking the head. Would make sense if it happens more on the PS4 menu than in games.
That said, previous to this I bought the same drive in one of those USB enclosures because it was cheaper. The model is the same and perhaps even the firmware, but some people claimed that the USB one is tuned to be more aggressive in parking the head to conserve power. When I took it out of the enclosure and put in my PS4, the thing chirped frequently during my games. It was so annoying I returned it and got the drive by itself (http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00I8O6OQ4/?tag=neogaf0e-20). Much better, though like I said it still softly chirps every now and again on the menu.
Someone in the CUH-1200 thread said they were going to test their's with an SSD but they never actually did IIRC.
geordiemp
Member
We ahve 2 Ps4, both with 2 TB Samsungs.
Not done any speed measurements as I dont really notice or care, it is just as quick or better than the 500 GB ....
What I do care about is 2TB storage/
geordiemp
Member
We have 2 spinpoint 2 TB in 2 Ps4 for over a year now, neither of them beep.
Just checked again now, no beep or chirp noises.
Lakerchick4life
Member
I have the 2TB Samsung hard drive and its fine, I have 1.57GB remaining and I have downloaded ALL of the free PS+ games on it
The OS and games are coded to run on 5400rpm drives.
EdwardTeach
Member
I am amazed that the ssd offers such small gains. In a PC the difference is massive.
Why are the sshd's slower than a standard HD?
Why are the sshd's slower than a standard HD?
Unfortunately sold out at Amazon http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00EDIU5IW/?tag=cla1hd-20
I bought mine at a Fry's electronics. But, it's just my luck the site is down right now for some reason. I would call any electronic stores in your area maybe? Micro center also had a link but it's not going through on my end.
ethomaz
Banned
The new PS4 model support any HDD size if I'm not wrong... even the 13.5mm.
DrROBschiz
Member
I'm looking to update my PS4 and saw this benchmark on IGN. They advice to buy Travelstar 7K1000 // intern // 1TB // 2.5" // SATA 6 Gb/s // 7.200 U/min // 32MB Cache
I'm really impressed with the speed of Travelstar (65 euro/dollar pricepoint). Does anyone has experience with the recommended harddrive?
http://www.ign.com/articles/2015/08...edium=PS4&utm_content=3&utm_campaign=Blogroll
Update:
Damn ... This just highlights the limits of the SATAII line connecting the HDD to the PS4
Noticable changes but not the dramatic performance shift you would desire
Thanks.. Searching for 5k1500 and looking at the prices on the right hand side of the bar it looks like that drive is discontinued. Unfortunately I have literally no electronic stores in my area. Closest thing I have is a Best Buy.. No fry's or microcenter.
If the 2TB drive has the same number of platters speed will be the same if not in favour of the 2TB drive due to the platter density.
AngelOFDeath
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Got myself a 2TB drive while back, best decision I made considering I almost went with 1TB
Fushichou187
Member
I really like my Seagate 1TB Hybrid drive that I slotted into my PS4. I can't see myself putting an SSD in there unless 1TB prices drop significantly. If I upgrade to a non-SSD drive it'll likely be a 2TB+ SSHD if they exist at that point and are of a reasonable price.
ScaryShark
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I'm 95% digital. Not an option. I don't like having to think about storage space either. 2 TB takes any annoyances out of it.
*Enterpise/Workstation workloads on an consumer hard drive.
Yep even though it does have it's points it really shouldn't be used as a be all and end all for hard drive failure rate used it's always used as sadly.
My big beef with this is that it also deletes your update data. Some of these games have 6-7 gb patches that I don't want to sit through again but would like to delete the application only.
That's interesting, I've never heard that before. I suppose it would make sense that the drives differ somewhat but I thought they were supposed to be identical. I'll have to read up more about it.
Edit: Ah, well that didn't take long. Sounds like it might be across all M9Ts with earlier firmware. The versions ending in ---3 and ---4 might solve the problem.
And wow, didn't know there was another portable drive/enclosure that had the M9T. This Silicon Power model might have a better quality model of the M9T. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00KF4E83G/?tag=neogaf0e-20 -- At least, the case is cooler.
I have no idea how easily those drives can be removed from that case, or if it's possible at all. Looking that up now. (Edit #19: Someone on Amazon said the drive is removable and that the case works with another drive too.)Final edit: Disassembly of the case and removal of the drive is even easier than with the Seagate Backup Plus! http://www.bjorn3d.com/2013/05/silicon-power-armor-a80-1tb-usb-3-0-portable-drive/
Product page: http://silicon-power.com/product/product_detail.php?main=19&sub=58&pro=132&currlang=utf8
Goes for $135 on Amazon.ca, $106 on Amazon.com.
This is the one I'm getting.
*at the time of the hdd flood so manufacturers were trying to ramp up output.
*also buying cheapest hdd they can get their hands on
*no mythology shown
NinjamicWZ
Banned
I could definitely use more room, but I'll upgrade when I get something set aside for a 1TB SSD, and also when stuff I bought physical can be replaced with digital pretty cheap. That PT install is real collateral damage, though
xKilltheMx
Member
This is the kind of post I want to see because I was going back between the two. Settled on 2000400 now.
GifGafIsTheBestGaf
Member
Where did you read that? That's news to me, and I can't find any reference to the fact in the new-model PS4 thread here.
Hmm that's true, PSN speeds are pretty bad. I guess I just rarely go back to old games.
Hopefully flash storage is cheap enough by then that we have SSDs by default in the consoles.
I'm not a tech expert or anything, but those 5400rpm HDDs must be a pretty major bottleneck in the consoles.
This is what I did. I'm currently using the old drive for media storage (reformatted to exFAT), but am considering dropping it into the ole phat3 when I crack the case and put thermal paste on etc. Should be enough to keep all my PS3 games on all the time.
If anyone is doing this, when you reformat the drive you will need to go into Device Manager to do it.
If Seagate drives are good enough for the LHC at CERN, they're good enough for me.
Pimpbaa
Member
My PSN download speeds are no worse than my Steam download speeds. I actually get the worse download speeds on my XB1. This is over fibre op internet.
What's the difference between their top pick and this one that I got almost 2 years ago, which is my PS4 now? (also paid $65):
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0097LG9U8/?tag=neogaf0e-20
http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0097LG9U8/?tag=neogaf0e-20
I've had two DOA Seagate drives in the past. I still use Seagate for my larger storage and when they work, they are great. But they will arrive broken quite often...
Although SSDs are limited in the PS4 due to SATA2 300MB/s, generally, it's still 2x faster than any HDD. Most HDDs only run at ~150MB/s. And, SSDs have almost ZERO access times vs ~12ms for HDDS so PS4 should be more snappy.
Now the most important part, why SSDs barely makes a difference on the PS4. It's because the OS and games are optimized for the slow ass stock 5400RPM HDD. Loading, streaming and etc. are affect by it.
Now the most important part, why SSDs barely makes a difference on the PS4. It's because the OS and games are optimized for the slow ass stock 5400RPM HDD. Loading, streaming and etc. are affect by it.
RichiRamjag
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Exactly what I did. I removed it from the enclosure. Drive works great, I have tons of space. All is well.