Thanks Dr Spook

So here is the question ?

If you had a Playstation 4 and you wanted to upgrade the drive in the next week which would you choose if money was no object

In reply to a post by time2die:

Thanks Dr Spook

So here is the question ?

If you had a Playstation 4 and you wanted to upgrade the drive in the next week which would you choose if money was no object

Money no object eh? That means I'd have to seriously consider a 1TB SSD but presently all the intel out there suggests for performance purposes a hybrid drive is a good bet but again you're restricted at 1TB in size and you said previously you wanted more space?

So, what I'll do for ya (as we're pals and all), is take a looksie and try and find my mate a nice 2TB hdd that's got a good reputation for speed and reliability. At the moment, I honestly feel - as space is your main requirement - that you should go for a 2TB drive (or thereabouts) if you're not in the habit of uninstalling games and all that carry on.

So, my questions to you first:

How much space do you really need? We'll forget about speed. I hear these PS4 games use up enormous amounts of hard drive real estate. Is that true?

How would you feel about buying another drive in future (and having to reinstall again stuff at a later date)? Right now, I'd be tempted to just click on kamelion's link to Scan and just get the 1TB Seagate hybrid drive then buy another 2TB drive or whatnot in future. That's what I would do.

Also - a note about overheating. If anyone had read my linked article/s, they'd have seen that apparently heat is not an issue with faster spinning hard drives in the PS4.

Be patient. That's my final bit of advice as you're not in danger of running out of space any time soon so it's not affecting you just yet. However, just get the Seagate drive if you like for now. Keep the old Sony provided drive of course. Or, if you're feeling adventurous, you could do some Professor Timey inspired research and buy 4 drives: that 2TB Green one (WD), the Seagate Momentous XT (1TB) @ 5400 rpm as well as the original Seagate Momentous XT (750GB version) @ 7200 rpm and a 1TB SSD that has a good reputation/spec for the PS4. Then you could put them all to the test and make some fancy graphs and talk the PlayStation community through all the pros and cons yourself. Get your stopwatch ready!

There's another option but its a bit ghetto. Mount a drive externally and then you aren't restricted to 2.5 inch drives and the mechanical limits on drive platter size. You could even make a nice bracket for it to mount it tidily.

Edited by deleted (Sun 08-Dec-13 23:32:30)

Yeah don't fancy doing that

German website ComputerBild has posted a series of hands-on pictures with a pre-release PS4 model. Based on the machine-translated German text, the 2.5-inch laptop-style hard drive is held in place with simple Phillips-head screws, so it�ll be simple to remove. Even better, it will fit drives as tall as 12.5mm � substantially more spacious than the PS3s maximum of 9.5mm.

http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/168945-ps4-confirm...

For a moment there I thought I was living in 2019 ???
I must have been caught up in a negative reality inversion

Hmm, difficult to work out what your post is about when you are replying to a post from 2013?

In reply to a post by ian72:

Hmm, difficult to work out what your post is about when you are replying to a post from 2013?

It was at the top of the page, I didn't put it there and there were no other recent posts so I guessed it must have been a negative reality inversion /
How else would a thread from 6 years ago make it up here?

In reply to a post by Lt_Swan:

I must have been caught up in a negative reality inversion

�That looked just like a negative reality inversion, didn�t it?�

�Yes, it did a bit.�

I would guess spam was posted and then deleted - but the spam post would bring the "last post" date up in the forum page. It happens occasionally.