PS4pro HDD vs SSD test up: DF tests & NXGamer. Final 5-40% perf improvement

[walsufnir]

Conina said:

walsufnir said:

No it's not because there won't be much differences.

OG PS4 SSD vs Pro SSD would be interesting. Mechanical drives suck, no matter if you put them into a PS4, a Pro or a new computer. Especially the comparison is off if it isn't the same drive you are going to test.

The long loading times on PS4 (and other consoles) are only partly the fault of the HDDs inside, they aren't the only bottleneck. Something else has to be the cause of these long loading times on PS4, XBO and other consoles. Not only SSDs but also HDDs can't show their full potential in these consoles.

Or why else are multiplatform games (The Witcher 3, Fallout 4...) loading faster even from an HDD on a PC than from SSD on a PS4/Pro?

 

It could be that it takes computing time because of drm and/or disk encryption that is required so the CPU might also limit the transfer rates.