| pezus said: Well SSD didn't benefit PS3 much, but PS3 was nothing like a PC while PS4 is almost like a PC in disguise. I suspect that an SSD will benefit PS4 immensely, but I will wait for sites like Eurogamer to test it before I buy one. |
This is my thinking process as well. From what I understand, the reason why the PS3 didn't benefit from a SSD drive is because it only supported SATA1 bandwidth. Unless I am mistaken PS4 will supports SATA 3 so there should be a tangable benefit. I agree that when the games are loaded that unless they are horribly optimised there will not be a noticable difference. However when it comes to loading apps, installations, copying and just in general any tasks carried out on the operating system there should be a substantial benefit.
For my PS3 I purchased a 3rd party 320gig 7200rpm drive and the main benefit I have noticed is reduced installation and copy times. Since the PS4 is more PC like I am hoping that adding a solid state drive will provide more benefits. What I will do though is wait for some reviews and evaluate my options. I will buy a PS4 at launch but I'm not going to thoughtlessly jump on the SSD bandwagon unless it is worth it.
edit- By the way if anyone is interested, for reference here is a link where they asess if there are any benefits to the PS3 game performance when using different HDDs and SSDs.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-can-ssd-upgrades-boost-ps3-performance
