PS4 hard drive is user-replaceable
PlayStation 4 will support user-replaceable hard drives, just like PS3.
Note: Shacknews apologizes if you're getting tired of these stories that point out what PS4 can do that Xbox One cannot.
PlayStation 4 will support user-replaceable hard drives. According to Sony's Shuhei Yoshida, hard drives are upgradeable "like PS3." PS3 used standard notebook hard drives which could be swapped rather easily. Xbox 360, on the other hand, relied on proprietary hard drives for a bulk of the console's life.
PS4 will launch with a 500GB hard drive, but should that not be enough, you can simply buy a larger one. (Terabyte drives go for well under $100.)
Xbox One does not support user-replaceable hard drives. However, that console does support external USB 3.0 storage devices.
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PlayStation 4 will support user-replaceable hard drives, just like PS3.-
Region free, SSD can be installed, No Aussie rip off pricing, not too ugly (at least it looks good vertical)
All I need is confirmation ALL disc games can be loaded on to the HDD to make my laser last longer, which is pretty likely.....
It's like these fuckers want me to buy my first at launch console >:(
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GT5 is still worse than GT4, it's missing one thing I really like and it's extremely 'time grindy' at the start. I don't think I'm in for more PD games, period. I love Forza TBH.
All I want is ONE car which I can mod the SHIT out of and run in like 70% of races and bond with it, same as I did with GT4.
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GT4 I had an MX5 or RX7 which I used and loved for well,... ages and it worked in most races. I think it was a silver MX5 and that was 7 years ago I'm remembering that joy.
GT5 feels more like Forza with constant need to change cars at the start for custom events and it makes me sad. I want to "save up" for a nice M3 Coupe and mod the shit out of it and the game is making that impossible due to so many different race types.
It's also making it hard to FIND the fucking car I want (04 model I think) because not all cars are for sale yet and making money is slow and grindy. I don't have hours and hours and hours to play :/
GT5 makes me wish I was 15 again with virtually limitless time. :/ alas I can't do it anymore car games, I just can't.
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Well at least the last five news articles have each been one point against xbone and for the ps4.
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Loyalties aside, people should be making an informed purchase.
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Yup and all these articles are doing an amazing job of informing us that the PS4 will give us more bang for the buck.
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Sure, well dont use those ones then, problem solved.
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I don't understand how that can work. The problem trim solves is that in most filesystems, the OS will just delete a file from the filesystem data structures without actually zero'ing out the blocks. This means when it comes time to write to that block, the drive has to zero it before writing. This harms write performance.
Because the drive has no knowledge of the filesystem structure, it can't pre-emptively zero out blocks. The trim command is the mechanism for notifying the drive which blocks are safe to zero. For a drive to do that based on some logic in its firmware, it would have to know about NTFS / PS3/4 fs / whatever other filesystem is on the drive. I find that doubtful.-
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Built in garbage collection is plenty for a console HDD. You aren't making small changes often and dealing with lots of small files where you are going to have a lot of half-written blocks. Built in garbage collection will make it a complete non-issue where you probably won't ever get to the point of it being a performance problem on a console HDD even if you didn't have it.
Trim is also unnecessary for the same reason as you don't make enough writes to a console HDD for it be of any real use. And as mentioned below the deletion of files on the PS3 takes some time so it's obviously physically allocating the space rather than just marking part of the file system as usable again. Many file systems actually do this with files that are larger than their block allocations or if the file is over X number of blocks large.
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Not making the drive replaceable seems like a huge mistake from MS. Who wants a USB hard drive (that has to be plugged in) by their tv because MS couldn't let you swap the drive? Even the 360 let you buy MS branded drives to upgrade which while total bullshit is still better than this. This is basically a repeat of MS's decision to ship an 360 without a hard drive.
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Just curious, anyone here actually replace their PS3 hard drive?
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I got the 80GB MGS4 version and I've definitely had to uninstall a few things.
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Yeah it's pretty easy to do just pop out slide new one in.
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Yeah I've got an old as hell 20gig that I stuck a 200gig in. Super easy to do.
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Yes. 1TB
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I did on my original unit before I sold it
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Yeah. I filled mine up extremely quick.
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I didn't, didn't download many games or movies, but I do know a lot of people who did. Even today, the guy I work with, who worked over night and missed all the hype yesterday, first question was, how big is the hard drive.
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How does one go about doing this? I guess I could google it, but I want to add to the conversation damnit!
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and the list of reasons why just keeps getting better. i'm in, sony. you win in my book.
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Amazing.
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This is just another great feature. It is really surprising MS didn't even match the stuff like this that they knew was coming.
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