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aLkaLiNE said: Og Xbox is on sata 2, Xb1s has a sata 3 HDD but the interface itself is still sata 2 which means that you still couldn't hit full speed on an internal SSD. That's aside from the fact that the hard drive on the Xbox is not designed to be replaced to begin with and your warranty is voided if you do, and that the xb1s still comes with a 5400RPM HDD. The only viable way to improve your load times with an SSD on Xbox is using an external hard drive through the UsB3.0 port, but unless you can install the xb OS on an external drive and boot from that, it won't affect the speed of the UI itself what so ever. [...] |
If you need more space for games you must replace the drive on the PS4. On the Xbox One, there's no requirement to replace the drive as you can install full games to external drives, something you can't do on the PS4 last I checked. I personally prefer the Xbox One's approach, but an argument can be made for each.
I believe there can be minor speed improvements to the UI with an external drive added onto an Xbox One. In situations where there is a lot of drive activity (downloading a game in the background, for example), having that drive activity on an external drive reduces the amount of time the UI is waiting for OS components and apps to load off of the main drive. Similarly, game loading times can be improved by being put on an external drive even when the external drive isn't any faster than the internal one, just because the game can load off the external drive without competition from OS components being loaded off the internal drive.
