PS3 & SSD

[Yuichi]

Get a hybrid drive, it's a lot cheaper and provides more space.

This, hybrid drives you can get a 1tb for around $100 vs a ssd 250gb for $150

[Kyriea]

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.

[Rochetm]

The PS4 OS takes up roughly 120-130GB of space, and might take up more in the future.

lolWUT? Does the PS4 also fly a space shuttle?

[Keoeson]

Google is a good one.

Please use it. http://lmgtfy.com/?q=trim

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.

OMG, please use at least Wikipedia before spreading this nonsense.
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.

[Lurkios]

OMG, please use at least Wikipedia before spreading this nonsense.
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.

Did you actually read the Wikipedia on TRIM before typing that out? It confirms everything I said in the first 3 paragraphs.

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).

[Claire_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.)

[C-croft]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...57155469,d.cWc

Google link to IGN's hard drive speed tests.

[Soulburn32]

https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=...57155469,d.cWc

Google link to IGN's hard drive speed tests.

Looks 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.

[C-croft]

Looks 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.

Yeah it boils down to whether or not he wants to reformat the drive for later use in the ps4.

[ashikenshin]

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