PlayStation 4 Discussion

[NYGiants4Natic]

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Has it been confirmed yet if the new PS4 will play UHD/4K disk?

nothing is confirmed until sony announces but you cant call it ps4K and not have ability to play UDH disk

[ODogg]

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I have the Samsung 850 Pro SSD with 512gb just received yesterday from Amazon on my PS4 and it allows about 10 games with load times being reduced greatly

Stock Drive on the Witcher from main menu to game it was 1:37 seconds and with the Samsung Pro 850 SSD it was 1:07 seconds

In GTA 5 loading story took 1:42 seconds in stock and 1:24 seconds with the SSD

Games online load textures quicker as well like the division performs with less popping as well as GTA 5

I am returning the drive today because the Sandisk 1tb cost the same and performs the same with the PS4 so rather do that

But I will need to get an SSD for the XB1 as well

I think load times in big games like BloodBorne, Witcher 3, GTA, Fall Out, Dark Souls 3 and Quatum Break will benefit from the SSD big time if you can find a good price point

yeah it makes a big difference for some games. I got the SSD Hybrid for my xbox one mainly for fallout 4 as the load times on that game can be bad and I went from about 1:00 minute of loading to about 20 seconds. Very happy with that result!

[RoyalBoyle78]

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What size hdd you guys have in your ps4's

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[NYGiants4Natic]

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yeah it makes a big difference for some games. I got the SSD Hybrid for my xbox one mainly for fallout 4 as the load times on that game can be bad and I went from about 1:00 minute of loading to about 20 seconds. Very happy with that result!

Yea the Seagate Hybrid is nice and they just released a new version of that which has 1tb and 32gb in the flash which will help with more files and games

I assume you have the one with 6 or 8gb of flash storage? That one helps a lot to but getting the 32gb flash will lead to more and for more games to benefit

I got the SSHD on the xb1 with 8gb flash and notice improvement but want to get an SSD for both consoles

I am always looking for deals and if you search you can find ssd for same price as hybrid

[NYGiants4Natic]

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What size hdd you guys have in your ps4's

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The Samsung SSD Pro I have is 512 gb which is more then enough for me as I dont play old games after I am done with them. I stick to about 6 games year long and that is more then enough for me

On xb1 I will get the same drive but the good thing about the xbox one is that is additional storage compared to ps4 which is replacing storage

[ODogg]

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Yea the Seagate Hybrid is nice and they just released a new version of that which has 1tb and 32gb in the flash which will help with more files and games

I assume you have the one with 6 or 8gb of flash storage? That one helps a lot to but getting the 32gb flash will lead to more and for more games to benefit

Yeah, 8gb is what I have, the 1tb version Seagate

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-STBD10...ds=stbd1000400

[RoyalBoyle78]

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This drive is good right?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00MPW...ob_neva_mobile




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[ODogg]

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This drive is good right?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00MPW...ob_neva_mobile




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Don't you want to go to a SSD Hybrid?

Check this one out, about same price and same size but it is SSD Hybrid:

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Deskto...ssd+hybrid+2tb

[NYGiants4Natic]

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This drive is good right?

http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B00MPW...ob_neva_mobile




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Get this one which is better and will improve load times in games more then a stock hdd

http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Gaming...e+hybrid+drive

[The JareBear]

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Yeah that's what I told him as well. You can't even transfer a hard drive between PS4's right now and have it work without doing a total reformat and redownload/reinstall as I learned the hard way. The hard drive is tied to the specific PS4.

Wow.

Did not know this. Seems odd to me. Thanks for the heads up

[The JareBear]

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The Samsung SSD Pro I have is 512 gb which is more then enough for me as I dont play old games after I am done with them. I stick to about 6 games year long and that is more then enough for me

On xb1 I will get the same drive but the good thing about the xbox one is that is additional storage compared to ps4 which is replacing storage

That only thing that worries me about having an SSD in my ps4 is people telling me that without TRIM support on the PS4, the drive will start to slow down and fail sooner.

Is this true, necessarily?

I was thinking of taking it out once in awhile to plug it into my PC, reformat, optimize with Samsung Magician, and re-plugging it into he PS4 (would just have to re-download some games)

[Burns11]

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That only thing that worries me about having an SSD in my ps4 is people telling me that without TRIM support on the PS4, the drive will start to slow down and fail sooner.

Is this true, necessarily?

I was thinking of taking it out once in awhile to plug it into my PC, reformat, optimize with Samsung Magician, and re-plugging it into he PS4 (would just have to re-download some games)

That's not really going to do anything, and will likely be worse, the problem with not having TRIM isn't akin to a regular hdd being fragmented. With SSDs you want to minimize the number of times you write to the drive.

SSDs work differently than mechanical hard drives, they have to be written in larger blocks and they have to be erased before something new can be written. TRIM allows the SSD know what can be erased on the fly. SSD makers have made things like garbage collection to help the old problem of having old data gumming up the space, but they create more problems. SSD chips can only be written a certain amount of times, garbage collection takes all the known good stuff, writes it to empty blocks, then erases the old blocks with old data written to it. This causes the SSD to have increased wear and uneven wear, meaning long term the SSD will have capacity fail sooner and more unevenly.

Makers have minimalized the negative effects of not having TRIM, but it's still way worse without it to the life of the SSD. I wouldn't worry about a modern SSD in a console, it's not likely going to last 10 years but that's not really going to be a major issue.

[NYGiants4Natic]

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That only thing that worries me about having an SSD in my ps4 is people telling me that without TRIM support on the PS4, the drive will start to slow down and fail sooner.

Is this true, necessarily?

I was thinking of taking it out once in awhile to plug it into my PC, reformat, optimize with Samsung Magician, and re-plugging it into he PS4 (would just have to re-download some games)

Without TRIM the SSD will suffer on console as oppose to a PC but that should not worry you as the SSD will last you the length of this console lifespan

I never also keep my SSD close to max, I run all but about 5 to 6 games and have well over 120 gb left. I know this will last me for as long as I keep the ps4 and in the long term perhaps use it on my laptop

[DickDalewood]

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How much of a deal would it be though if there was one? Also then you would have to redownload ever thing and transfer saves to the new one like you do if a system breaks and you get a new one and that is a pain in the butt. I still think this is just a rumor or even a early April fools joke but we will see. If they really do this would the current ps4 go down in price? Or would this one cost more then 400?

All of my saves are uploaded to the cloud and I only keep about three games downloaded on my system at a time. I'd lose a day of gaming maybe. Not a big deal at all, especially since I lose several days a week anyway between job, gym, and life.

[razorkaos]

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I would only buy this new PS4 if my PS4 dies and i can't afford a gaming PC or if i have no interest on the Nintendo NX.



I'm really not wanting to support Sony's disrespectful move towards 40 million+ consumers.



Gotta say, PS4.5 is Sony's Steam Machine, but more limited, and with a worse marketplace.