SSD Drive in the PS4 whilst playing Grand Theft Auto V. Any difference

[LT. Ronald C. Spiers]

Has anyone upgraded their standard PS4 HDD for a SSD drive and noticed a difference in the next gen version of Grand Theft Auto V?

[friendly luggage]

Load times would be a bit quicker but I wouldn't say it's worth sticking one in a console. Laptop yes, desktop yes, console no.

[Norsea]

 

 

Very huge differences.

[TheMcSame]

As was shown above the SSD is clearly faster because the consoles use 5400 RPM drives, in the sense of speed the HDDs in the consoles are about 3-5 times slower than most SSDs on paper.

 

I wouldn't recommend getting an SSD and replacing the HDD as the PS4 uses a SATA II (3Gb/s) connector which is capped at about 375 MB/s which means it will bottleneck most SSDs on the market meaning wasted money. If the PS4 allows you to save games onto external drives then I'd say it would be more sensible to buy it for external use as USB 3.0 is capped at 5Gb/s which is about 625 MB/s which is faster than a lot of SSDs.

[yoječ]

Just a nitpick - SATAII is effectively capped at 300MB/s.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_ATA#SATA_revision_2.0_-_3_Gbit.2Fs_-_300_MB.2Fs

 

And there's a similar thing with the USB3.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_3.0#Data_encoding

Edited November 23, 2014 by yojo2

[Spaghetti Cat]

I had a SSD on my ps3. Playing V on it the animations and character switching were smooth. Only slowdown I had was Online, but that could be due to my internet connection. I'd like to transfer my SSD from the 3 to the 4, but it's only 128 gig. Looking online a good 256gig SSD from samsung can be had for about $120. My budget is tight rite now due to x-mas and such, but I'd like to plug in a SSD to the ps4. Only downside would be the loss of storage, that might be big since games are now loaded to the HDD anyways. If your like me tho and don't mind the loss of some storage for a pickup in speed I'd say go for it!

[Oaty]

As was shown above the SSD is clearly faster because the consoles use 5400 RPM drives, in the sense of speed the HDDs in the consoles are about 3-5 times slower than most SSDs on paper.

 

I wouldn't recommend getting an SSD and replacing the HDD as the PS4 uses a SATA II (3Gb/s) connector which is capped at about 375 MB/s which means it will bottleneck most SSDs on the market meaning wasted money. If the PS4 allows you to save games onto external drives then I'd say it would be more sensible to buy it for external use as USB 3.0 is capped at 5Gb/s which is about 625 MB/s which is faster than a lot of SSDs.

Most of the advantage of having an SSD comes from the tremendous IOPs advantage rather than the raw file transfer speed. That is, how many file in/out operations can occur at one time. Modern SSDs are capable of over 75,000 IOPs per second whereas a typical harddrive is only around 100. This means loading times are drastically improved in cases where lots of files, large or small, have to be accessed at one time as you can see in the youtube video posted earlier.

[kipakolonyasi]

but does it help pop-ins at all? because doesn't it stream the trees and all that bullsh*t from RAM once you're in the game? does it stream any of the trees, textures etc. directly from the harddrive during gameplay?

[philbeau]

No improvements aside form loading and character switched.

 

See this thread too for info regarding ssd vs hdd : http://gtaforums.com/topic/750440-ps4-pop-in-performance/

[CrysisAverted]

hmm so should I jump on this?

http://slickdeals.net/f/7432080-256gb-samsung-850-pro-ssd-assassins-creed-unity-pc-download-150-free-shipping

[Norsea]

Go for it. That's an amazing deal.