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Conina on 29 October 2016
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exdeath said:
KBG29 said:

It will end up being about $2000 US for both. The 4TB SSD is only 6.80mm in height, so it easily fits the PS4 Pro. I know the price to performance ratio is not really worth it, but I am fully beind the death of the HDD and the rise of the SSD. I have been SSD only since GT5 came out and it cut the load times in half. Since then I have upgraded each time a higher capacity drive was available. Had a 1TB in my OG PS4, put a 2TB in the 1200 model I bought last year, and now the 4TB for the Pro.

HDD is primitive garbage that belongs in dumps with reel to reel, cassette, 8 track, floppy, and VHS.  This 1950s magnetic recording has hobbled our technology for far too long.  Say no to the IO bottleneck.

60+ GB/s CPUs and RAM and 1 gig internet and 10-100 gig LAN and we still fucking read/write code and data off a fucking primitive magnetic spindles using magnets at kilobytes per second access speeds.  wtf

 

Even the cheapest 2TB-SSD costs more than 4 times of an 2TB-SSHD (€500+ vs. €120) while an SSHD is only 4% to 40% slower than the SSD (totally depends of the game) running on an PS4. That means that the loading times on an SSD are only 1 to 16 seconds faster (again, that difference totally depends of the game) than on that "primitive garbage"... not very impressive: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-is-it-worth-upgrading-your-ps4-with-an-ssd

And after you started a game and loaded your savegame, further speed differences aren't even there from this point in many titles since the loading of the next level / adjoining areas is already done in the background while watching a cutscene or entering an area. 

So feel free to waste a lot of money if these 1 to 16 seconds loading time are really that important to you... but until the proportion between speed improvement and cost difference doesn't get better, HDDs and SSHDs still have their place.