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Will you be purchasing a Solid State Drive for the PS4?

Yes 163 44.54%
 
No 60 16.39%
 
Depends on the price 79 21.58%
 
See results 64 17.49%
 
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No. For the price of SSD i'd rather pick up a Wii U for some Mario Luigi time. 



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Did the SSD is so expensive?

You can found ~250GB SSD at $200 or ~500GB SDD at $300.

I don't think that expensive for the benefices... if I will mount a PC I will use SSD for sure.

My PS4 will have at least a 500GB SSD.



Buying an SSD will be counterproductive considering the latest blockbuster PS3 games are on average 20-30GB for one game.  It gets even worse.  The recently added Uncharted 3 to PSN takes up a whopping 87GB!   The download size most of the time is compressed and it takes up nearly double the space once it's installed.

PS4 games are rumored to be around 50GB for one game and that's not including any potential DLC addons.  One game could take up 100GB if it's a huge game with multiplayer and lots of cutscenes.  I imagine that Sony's plan is to eventually stream digitial PS4 games over the cloud so you won't have to download the entire game.  Maybe just a little bit of data and the rest is in the cloud.  I can't imagine them expecting 500GB to be sufficient as the only capacity for a next gen multimedia device otherwise.

Switching to SSD just limits your storage space options tremendously and will cause you to run out of space faster despite spending a lot more money per GB.  As mentioned before the better option is a 1TB Hybrid drive like the Seagate Momentus XT that I use on my PS3.  It performs nearly as well as a true SSD without sacrificing storage capacity.

I have a Momentus XT in my PS3 and the menus and games run silky smooth.  Everything loads a lot faster and it feels like I'm using a genuine SSD drive.  Plus unless PS4 has the proper hardware and software to take advantage of SSDs it probably won't perform any better than Hybrids.

Seagate 1TB Hybrid Drive $129.99 - http://www.bestbuy.com/site/1TB+Internal+Serial+ATA+III/Serial+ATA+II+Solid+State+Hybrid+Drive+for+Laptops/8808633.p?id=1218897640424&skuId=8808633&st=Seagate%201TB%20hybrid%20drive%20laptop&cp=1&lp=1



sony said the harddrive can be changed on the ps4



VITA 32 GIG CARD.250 GIG SLIM & 160 GIG PHAT PS3

I perfectly agree with those recommending a hybrid drive.
They combine the best of both worlds, HDD and SSD:
You get the speed advantage from SSDs on data that is often accessed (which is where it makes most sense).
And you get the huge storage capacity from HDDs, while the price is just a little higher than a "pure" HDD.



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I already did for GT5 ops... PS3.



sounds like a waste of money. i'd rather have a 2-4 TB driven then a fast 128GB.



kitler53 said:
sounds like a waste of money. i'd rather have a 2-4 TB driven then a fast 128GB.

It is like 50 seconds to 15 seconds between racers in GT5

And what I read every game will use automatic installed data in HDD in this new-gen... so it will make differece for everygame.



ethomaz said:
kitler53 said:
sounds like a waste of money. i'd rather have a 2-4 TB driven then a fast 128GB.

It is like 50 seconds to 15 seconds between racers in GT5

And what I read every game will use automatic installed data in HDD in this new-gen... so it will make differece for everygame.


i've almost maxed my 500 GB drive on ps3.  no fucking way i can deal with a smaller drive when bold is true.  vita's 32 GB max is infuriating enough.



You might not need the SSD. Yeah the bus is faster on the PS4 vs PS3, but assuming the PS4 can stream in the background as they say it can, having 8 GB of memory should be plenty to host a lot of game textures, etc.

Once you get past that initial start up time / load, then it might be pretty seamless if everything is coded well that is (and dumped into memory ASAP). I would wait and see what the reports are. SSD of that size would be pricey. Then again, if you have money to blow go for it.