Forget the New Playstation 4.5, an SSD Is All You Need

The rumors are already flying that we ’ll begetting a Modern PS4soon . Well , sort of . It wo n’t wager dissimilar game than the current PS4 does , it will just playact them better . This is all in assistance of making a PS4 that can address the beefy artwork requirements ofPlaystation VR , and do what the original PS4 should have done : end product 4 K graphics .

But if the idea of spending another $ 400 - plus dollar sign on a console less than three age after the last one come out makes you shrivel and conk out , then might I suggest a unlike sort of ascent ? Put a solid country crusade ( SSD ) in your current PS4 . It wo n’t improve the graphics , but it will speed up load times . And if you ’ve ever played a huge game with tremendous saves ( call up Dragon Age : Inquisition or The Witcher 3 ) than you know what a deliver saving grace that is .

SSDs are n’t justincredibly durablecompared to hard magnetic disc drive ( HDDs ) , they ’re also a wad faster . Which is actually useful when you ’re wreak video games — especially when boot up the console or payload save games .

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I shaved most ten seconds off my warhead meter when reboot the PS4 from a residual province . While bring up from a rest state with the built in 500 GB HDD is n’t exactly clock time consuming , booting from an SSD — I used a Sandisk Ultra II 960 GB drive — was near instant .

Things did n’t better quite as much when loading a Witcher 3 save point from near the end of the secret plan , but it did drop from more than a minute and half to just a little more than a minute of arc . That ’s the difference between taking a bathroom break and running to the kitchen for a drink .

So while you ’re Friend are dropping cash so they can have a fancy 4 kilobyte upscaler , you could save some money , improve your consignment meter , and get to what your PS4 should be doing : play picture games .

William Duplessie