A PS4 SSD upgrade may be in order

I must say that in the games I have played on the PS4 so far (Watchdogs, Killzone: Shadowfall, inFAMOUS: Second Son), the load times have been significantly better than what was average on the PS3 and XBox 360, so it's been quite a nice experience for me so far. I haven't yet played The Witcher 3, Bloodborne, or Fallout 4, which are newer and seem to be the ones with particularly heavy load times, so my opinion might change once I try some of those.

The big problem is that replacing my 1TB stock HDD with anything approaching a 1TB SSD is probably going to cost as much as the PS4 itself, and a smaller SSD would probably fill up really quickly.

Maybe it'll be worthwhile once SSD prices have dropped quite a bit more and their capacities have increased. I'd say give it a year or so...
 
Personally think the price to upgrade for the few seconds saved is not worth it.

You will be playing that game for hours after loading it, who cares about 1 to 17 seconds?

One of the most interesting results is that Just Cause 3’s normal loading time is 1 minute, whereas an SSD cuts loading times down to 43 seconds, and with an SSHD that figure stands at 59 seconds.
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AstroTurf said:
Personally think the price to upgrade for the few seconds saved is not worth it.

You will be playing that game for hours after loading it, who cares about 1 to 17 seconds?
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The one game that drove me crazy with loading screens was Skyrim, where every time you went through a door, you'd have to wait a minute or so for loading, which especially sucks when exploring towns. If There's only an occasional loading screen, then that's not an issue, you can wait a minute, but if you are constantly having to wait, then it becomes a problem.

But ya, the price of SSD's, and the relatively small capacity compared to HDD's makes it unfeasible unless you have money to burn.
 
AstroTurf said:
Personally think the price to upgrade for the few seconds saved is not worth it.

You will be playing that game for hours after loading it, who cares about 1 to 17 seconds?
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I was desperate to try get an SSD into my PS3... Mainly so i could say, "I have an SSD in my PS3" But the price of the things is no where near affordable... And like you mentioned the improvement is so slight...
 
From what I've read recently a 1TB 7200rpm HDD would be a decent price/performance upgrade.
 
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Tom said:
I was desperate to try get an SSD into my PS3... Mainly so i could say, "I have an SSD in my PS3" But the price of the things is no where near affordable... And like you mentioned the improvement is so slight...
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I upgraded my 250GB PS3 to 500GB, mostly because the drive was failing so I had to replace it anyway, but the extra space was nice. Wasn't an SSD though
 
matt said:
I upgraded my 250GB PS3 to 500GB, mostly because the drive was failing so I had to replace it anyway, but the extra space was nice. Wasn't an SSD though
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I had an SSD in my laptop that was freaking out, so i gave it a try in my PS3, only 120 gig, but the drive was stuffed... "whistling:

Its a really easy thing to do...
 
Tom said:
I had an SSD in my laptop that was freaking out, so i gave it a try in my PS3, only 120 gig, but the drive was stuffed... "whistling:

Its a really easy thing to do...
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Oh ya, Sony made the drive super easy to swap out. Very nice of them, don't even need to have proprietary enclosures like the xbox 360. Not sure how the xbone is handling it though.
 
Ps3 I bought a 12gb cause I already had a 500gb drive laying around from an old laptop.

Took about 3 minutes to install.
 
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