Replacing Xbox One hard drive makes it run faster, modder shows

[Dohc-WP]

Please note that while this voids the Xbox One's warranty, YouTube user 'Brian Williams' has posted a new video claiming that replacing the console's 500 GB hard drive with a larger capacity one will make the system run incrementally faster. You can watch the video below.

WIlliams replaces the Xbox One HDD with a 500GB Samsung EVO SSD and a Seagate 1TB hybrid SSHD, and proceeds to demonstrate a 20% faster load time for Call of Duty: Ghosts, and a 10% faster boot time to the Xbox One home screen. We haven't yet tested this ourselves, so can't verify the claim.

If you're tempted to do this, keep in mind that Xbox One will eventually support external storage. PlayStation 4, on the other hand, will not, but you are able to replace its hard drive without voiding its warranty as long as it complies with certain standards.

Source IGN

[Crzwaco]

Seen someone mod his Ps4 with a ssd.

[Glordit]

Please note that while this voids the Xbox One's warranty, YouTube user 'Brian Williams' has posted a new video claiming that replacing the console's 500 GB hard drive with a larger capacity one will make the system run incrementally faster. You can watch the video below.

WIlliams replaces the Xbox One HDD with a 500GB Samsung EVO SSD and a Seagate 1TB hybrid SSHD, and proceeds to demonstrate a 20% faster load time for Call of Duty: Ghosts, and a 10% faster boot time to the Xbox One home screen. We haven't yet tested this ourselves, so can't verify the claim.

If you're tempted to do this, keep in mind that Xbox One will eventually support external storage. PlayStation 4, on the other hand, will not, but you are able to replace its hard drive without voiding its warranty as long as it complies with certain standards.

Source IGN

Sony can still give external HDD support if they want to, MP3 playback was not supported until Sony released a update to the firmware.

Seen someone mod his Ps4 with a ssd.

While that will give it a nice boost, the cost to size ratio is still too great. Considering PS4 games are easily 30Gb's+

[VirtualForce]

Stupid question. Is there a reason why they used 5400rpm drives? Besides being cheaper? I would think a 7200rpm drive would be much better. Obviously it costs more, but isnt that worth the faster load times?

So if you have a couple of grand lying around gathering dust, you can insert a nice phat 500 something Gb drive...would make an uber console.

[Glordit]

Stupid question. Is there a reason why they used 5400rpm drives? Besides being cheaper? I would think a 7200rpm drive would be much better. Obviously it costs more, but isnt that worth the faster load times?

So if you have a couple of grand lying around gathering dust, you can insert a nice phat 500 something Gb drive...would make an uber console.

7200 RPM drives tend to give off more heat. That is debatable, as some people claim they have had 7200 HDD's since day on in there PS3's and no crashes, while other have stated that they caused heating problems. According to many posts on the net the gains from 5400 to 7200 can be as much as ~19%, an average of 3-5 seconds.

Inserting a SSD will give you a noticeable performance increase, much like one we see in PC's but at the end of the day you'll just get faster load time. I can safely say I am a patient man and can wait 20 seconds for a game to load than spend R3000+ to shave off a couple of seconds.

It can start to get very technical, as one could state that the game developer could have a specific system to help their files load faster (much like Quake had one massive .pak file that everything ran off). Less smaller files to load = faster seek times for data but that would require more time to load all of the said data into memory. I am no expert in this but that is purely my assumptions based on what I know. If anyone can perhaps add clarity it would be appreciated.

TL;DR
5400 to 7200 won't make a huge difference, SSD will.

[Dohc-WP]

7200 RPM drives tend to give off more heat. That is debatable, as some people claim they have had 7200 HDD's since day on in there PS3's and no crashes, while other have stated that they caused heating problems. According to many posts on the net the gains from 5400 to 7200 can be as much as ~19%, an average of 3-5 seconds.

Inserting a SSD will give you a noticeable performance increase, much like one we see in PC's but at the end of the day you'll just get faster load time. I can safely say I am a patient man and can wait 20 seconds for a game to load than spend R3000+ to shave off a couple of seconds.

It can start to get very technical, as one could state that the game developer could have a specific system to help their files load faster (much like Quake had one massive .pak file that everything ran off). Less smaller files to load = faster seek times for data but that would require more time to load all of the said data into memory. I am no expert in this but that is purely my assumptions based on what I know. If anyone can perhaps add clarity it would be appreciated.

TL;DR
5400 to 7200 won't make a huge difference, SSD will.

i agree, my laptop had a 250 gig 7200rpm drive i've recently replaced it with a 1tb 5400rpm drive and there's no noticeable performance loss.