Conina said:
Data reads from my external XBO drive are faster than from the internal. |
That's because USB3.0 is faster than SATA 2. The standard 5400rpm drive is slow as molasses but you pretty much max out the SATA 2.0 interface well before ever realizing the benefits of SSD (as in, SSD only offers small gains on ps4/xb1), which is why SATA3 support is a big deal for the ps4 pro. We will finally have the first console that can natively and fully take advantage of the speed that SATA3 brings.
Honestly Op, yes, we should be allowed the option for external storage, but microsofts solution is imperfect as well considering the internal drive on the xb1 can't be replaced nor was designed to be replaced by the consumer which means that the only option for more storage on xb is an external drive. This is a complete contrast to Sony, who doesn't allow external drive support, but does allow you to, by design, swap the internal drive out without voiding warranties or opening the ps4 shell up itself.
I think a major factor as to why Sony has been slow to move on this has to do with security and piracy. The PS3 was pretty awesome as a media hub/emulator machine. Imagine what a console could do if it had the guts of a PC,like the ps4 does - they're probably nervous that users will find a way to forge software licenses and that a market of piracy comes to fruition if they start allowing us to use flash drives or external drives like that. Clearly MS has a different perspective, but they also have less to lose and more to gain with how the market is. (If they dropped external drive support, then x1 users would have NO way to increase storage).
