Anyone else concerned with the PS4 Optical Drive?

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Chark said:
Well I'd assume installs are the approach, but maybe that secondary CPU and ability to play while things are downloading will work even with physical disks. It should be far and wide better. Sony will put a drive fast enough to run 4K blu ray movies. Anyone know what kind of disks speeds that would require? Sony could always change the drive before launch.

I wonder if Sony will put in a hybrid SSD/HDD in? It would have to go through testing for reliability and speed but that can be done. Hybrids are far more affordable now and it would offer SSD speeds with HDD storage.

It would be nice if they could incorperate a small amount of SSD to give devs higher streaming access, but it is probably still to expensive. It will come down over time though, and they could even improve the way it is used on future models. I think this would be the unltimate addition in future proofing the console. 

If they gave 2 - 4GB of super fast storage  to start, and had devs move the data from the HDD to the SSD at the start of each play session they could probably make this happen. Then like I said later models could start to ship with 8 or 16GB, and allow you to store game data for games you play more often in the SSD permenatly. With this devs could make sure the most bandwidth heavy streaming data could move through the SSD portion while lesser things can stream from the HDD side and the BD-ROM.

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3x what the PS3 had at least. I was worried aswell when i heard that but then they went on to talk about all the stuff that takes place in the background on the system. Those background operations will be the key reason why the system is much less of a hassle to deal with than the PS3. 

I'm really excited about the idea of playing a game a few seconds after I hit the download button.

I hope that is the case. Having a game stream properly makes a world of differnce in play quality. I had the stock HDD in one of my PS3 when Rage came out and the streaming was atrocious. After dropping and SSD in the system it was a whole different experiance. Hopefully that background functionality will make the above SSD scenario possible.

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I really hope they stick with the standard HDD, because I want to drop a 512GB SSD in mine from day one.