This, hybrid drives you can get a 1tb for around $100 vs a ssd 250gb for $150Quote:
Originally Posted by Keoeson
PS3 & SSD
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11-28-2013, 03:51 AMYuichi
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11-28-2013, 03:54 AMKyriea
I highly recommend an SSD, it really improves gameplay on the PS3 and is 100% noticeable. You won't regret it at all. Also the PS3 uses the HDD for a lot of things, for example rendering time is significantly better with a faster HDD (SSD). SATA doesn't really make a difference, people say it does but either way it's a huge difference just having an SSD over whatever they give you as standard, so it's really not worth worrying about the port you're using. There are places where you can find a bargain so you don't always have to pay full price for them.
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11-28-2013, 04:00 AMRochetmlolWUT? Does the PS4 also fly a space shuttle?Quote:
Originally Posted by Claire_Pendragon
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11-28-2013, 04:09 AMKeoesonPlease use it. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trimQuote:
Originally Posted by Lurkios
OMG, please use at least Wikipedia before spreading this nonsense.Quote:
TRIM is completely unrelated to wear leveling, which is performed entirely by the controller and will work regardless of the OS/device the drive is installed in - nor is TRIM in any way related to the drives lifespan. TRIM is purely performance related, it zeroes out blocks of data that have been tagged as "free" space. Most modern SSDs include a "garbage collection" feature which does the same thing, making TRIM largely irrelevant.
TRIM is the command, which actually tags the free space, it doesn't zero anything. Without it the drive doesn't know which data is still in use and once the drive was full once, it will be full forever for the drive firmware. Once the OS tells the drive which areas are free, it makes garbage collection more efficient and reduces the number the writes needed, thus increases the life span of the drive. -
11-28-2013, 04:14 AMLurkiosDid you actually read the Wikipedia on TRIM before typing that out? It confirms everything I said in the first 3 paragraphs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Keoeson
At the very least you seem to be a bit mistaken about what "wear leveling" is. Reducing reads is not "wear leveling", wear leveling is evenly distributing writes across blocks of memory so that no single block is written to significantly more times than any other. It causes all of the cells to wear at a more or less even rate. Although, with the amount of over provisioning in most SSDs I'm not entirely sure how necessary it is (not that it hurts). -
11-28-2013, 04:25 AMClaire_Pendragon
http://youtu.be/r1o1I1zb8gU
This is a side by side comparison of a normal HDD, with a SSD. (Maybe he said it was a hybrid, I forget, but I know he mentions hybrids)
Its not just Load times between zones, but actual game content is effected, mainly larger scale content, such as FATEs, where the game loads a lot of info off the HDD while in combat.
Either way, give it a quick watch, to see how it effects the PS3. (IDK how it would effect the PS4, if it could even be any different from the PS3.) -
11-28-2013, 04:30 AMC-croft
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...57155469,d.cWc
Google link to IGN's hard drive speed tests. -
11-28-2013, 04:37 AMSoulburn32Looks like the hybrid is going to be the solution for ps4 but i would say the storage needed on ps3 is a lot less and a ssd would be the better buy.Quote:
Originally Posted by C-croft
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11-28-2013, 04:39 AMC-croftYeah it boils down to whether or not he wants to reformat the drive for later use in the ps4.Quote:
Originally Posted by Soulburn32
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11-28-2013, 04:40 AMashikenshin
Just be sure to get a 160+ gb SSD. I made the mistake of buying the 120gb option and now it will stay inside the ps3 :(