PS4 Pro Hard Drive

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My Pro only has a 1TB drive which,Isnt a great deal of space these days once you've installed a few games :D

My question is would it be better to go the route of going for a 7200 RPM hard drive,Or go for a SSHD?

Can the PS4 take advantage of a SSHD? like meaning full advantage or just a tiny performance increase.

appreciate replys :)
 
I had poor results with a 2TB Seagate FireCuda SSHD, it wasn't a fast drive at all and kept spinning down when idle which caused more performance hiccups than the regular drive did. In the end I went with a 1TB SSD and use the drive the console came with as external storage.
 
Nevakonaza said:
My Pro only has a 1TB drive which,Isnt a great deal of space these days once you've installed a few games :D

My question is would it be better to go the route of going for a 7200 RPM hard drive,Or go for a SSHD?

Can the PS4 take advantage of a SSHD? like meaning full advantage or just a tiny performance increase.

appreciate replys :)
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Loads of people will point you towards the 2TB Seagate SSHD - I installed one myself and certainly cannot complain.
However, as you've got the option these days to add an external HD, that is by far the easiest option - I personally have the 2TB SSHD internally and then a 4TB drive externally - just means I can leave everything installed.

2TB SSD is also an option (any brand, as the controller on the PS4 Pro is not going to make any difference between a Kingston or a Samsung) - but of course at around £170+ not the cheapest of options.
 
Got a 2TB 7200 drive internally, and the same externally - even with 4TB I find myself having to uninstall things at times.

Not sure whether the change from the standard 5400 to a 7200 drive made much of a difference; if anything it was either slight or a placebo - though there have been occasions when playing MP with a mate; I have loaded into the game before he has.
 
2TB SSHD - you get fast loading times on stuff you play regularly. SSD is complete overkill and over time don't they get slower and slower and end up slower than a mechanical drive because there is no TRIM?

Plus cost of SSD for the slight performance gain over a SSHD isn't worth it.

Now if you are talking PC gaming then SSD all day.

I even had the 2 or 4 TB 7200rpm SSHD drive in my ps4 using the mod which lets the console take a 3.5" drive as opposed to a laptop drive. Now that was fast. The 2TB 2.5" SSHD's use 5400rpm drives which is same speed as stock but the larger platter size and the ssd cache make it much faster than stock.

Tbh it's a console and drive speed only does so much. I would stay away from SSD as they are wasted. Like sticking a ferrari engine in a corsa. The vauxhall chassis can only handle so much and the engine would be wasted in it
 
It depends on the game, but things like RDR2 loaded monumentally quicker with the SSD than they did on the default HDD or SSHD. Patch installs are much quicker too because the copying phase can be completed so much more quickly than on an HDD.

You're not going to see PC-like performance gains but they're still significant. The performance difference between SSHD and SSD is more noticeable than HDD to SSHD, that's for sure.
 
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