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Intrinsic on 31 October 2016
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CosmicSex said:
Which would be faster theoretically: an external drive or real SATA 3 speeds from a HDD?

Technically speaking, if both drives are SATA 3, and both connectors supporr SATA 3 speeds (so at least USB 3 and a SATA 3 HDD interface) then the internal drive will be faster.

The reason the external drive is faster for the XB1 is because its internal drive uses a SATA 2 connector while the external drives connect via USB 3 (which has a higher bandwidth than SATA 2).

onionberry said:
Intrinsic said:

This has nothung to do with the year or the hardware, its obviously a decision Sony has chosen to make. 

I think this has to do with piracy. I really can't think of any other reason why they don't allow the use of an external HDD.

 

wut, an external hdd it's just a hard drive, nothing different about the security

There is, as it stands all PlayStation games can only run from the encrypted internal drive or a bluray disc. Obviously sony has more control over that than whatever they could have over an external drive. 

Only way I see them being comfortable with this is if they require that the external drives are formatted in a such a way thathey won't just only work with a PS4 but also only the PS4 that did the encryption. Or some shit like that.