makes Xbox One look even more expensive with a slow internal hard drive.
What does that even mean?
makes Xbox One look even more expensive with a slow internal hard drive.
makes Xbox One look even more expensive with a slow internal hard drive.
Internal HDD is no better or worse than the one found in the PS4.
Why is everyone saying that the ps4 has only Sata II? Is there any proof for it?
PS4 is cheaper, my point.
For a Console that is built for Media/Digital downloading you would think the internal Hard drive would be somewhere they wouldn't skimp.
If I'm not mistaken, its because USB 3.0 is faster than the internal SATA connection.
What's the word on USB 3.0 flash drives? Even faster load times?
As a PS4 and Xbox owner, I wouldn't be jealous of the Xbox one install and load times at all. And you can already upgrade your internal drive.
I can't move my FIFA 14 to an external drive and read somewhere you can't move Skylanders either so I guess there are some restrictions in place for some games.
This would be interesting to know, especially since you can get really big ass ones.
What the hell is the bottleneck with a drive with direct connect to the system bus? I mean yes a beefed up exteranl drive can have pluses. Hey wait a minute is this over usb or esata? Sorry I donot own an X-1.Surprised this type of information is taking so long to appear.
None of the big sites seem to have benched external SSD/HDD for the Xbox yet :S
You don't need an inside lane to have guessed this. Not all drives/interfaces are created equal. It's not even a surprise, let alone some technical feat to question.
PS4 is cheaper, my point.
For a Console that is built for Media/Digital downloading you would think the internal Hard drive would be somewhere they wouldn't skimp.
Yes, but if you upgrade your PS4 HD you will lose the space you are replacing. With external HDD support, we are "adding" apce, not "replacing" space.
makes Xbox One look even more expensive with a slow internal hard drive.
For now. Internal is a better means of speeding up load/write times though. Glad the X1 is seeing some savings on externals, but it's not the same as internal.
Great... a fast external HDD upgrade will be norm after June.
But it is just me or these times posted here are incredible high... 40s, 1m10s, WTF.
makes Xbox One look even more expensive with a slow internal hard drive.
Who the hell would pay those prices to use a flash drive?
What's the word on USB 3.0 flash drives? Even faster load times?
Proof? What I've read is not so different than XBO, unless you upgrade to SSD, but you have writing limits, and dat price...
You're telling me that there are load times of over a minute in Ryse?
Edit: And Killzone?
I had no idea 'next gen' load times could be that bad.
For now. Internal is a better means of speeding up load/write times though. Glad the X1 is seeing some savings on externals, but it's not the same as internal.
I figure I saved about 3 hours just in load times on AC4 from setting up an SSHD drive when I got my PS4.
Some people don't care but over the life of a console i'll happily pay the extra to save a couple hundred hours.
Can somebody tell me what the bottleneck on XBox One and PS4 is? The hard drive or the SATA II connection? I'm a bit confused here and trying to learn.
Yeah. I thought load times were supposed to be a lot shorter, not twice as long!
I thought I remember xboxps2 gen to PS360 gen having much shorter load times comparatively.
Can somebody tell me what the bottleneck on XBox One and PS4 is? The hard drive or the SATA II connection? I'm a bit confused here and trying to learn.
That ram ain't gonna fill up itself. Takes some serious time to fill it.
Yeah. I thought load times were supposed to be a lot shorter, not twice as long!
I thought I remember xboxps2 gen to PS360 gen having much shorter load times comparatively.
Yes, but if you upgrade your PS4 HD you will lose the space you are replacing. With external HDD support, we are "adding" apce, not "replacing" space.
You have to fill dem 8GBs!
I'm sure I'm late on this but it's the hard drive that's bottle necking the XBox One's load times.
Mechanical hard drives are not capable of putting out data fast enough to saturate, let alone exceed the speed of SATA II or USB 3.0.
What? Modern SSDs are bottleneck by SATA III, let alone USB.USB 3.0 doesn't even bottleneck SSDs.
Anandtech said:But there was a problem. SATA 6Gbps still wasn't fast enough to meet the needs of SSD manufacturers as they were already able to saturate it. SATA-IO was given a difficult task: they would have to come up with a new standard with drastically better performance only a few years after the previous strandard had been announced. Not only would it have to be faster, but it also needed to be cost and power efficient. Instead of developing the SATA protocol further, which would have been expensive and time consuming, SATA-IO decided to utilize an existing interface found in every mainstream computer: PCI Express.
Cool. Let us know how it works out.I might be able to test with a small game. I just bought a 32gb drive. I have plants vs zombies which does have some long loads so I'll see if it fits on to it.
Whoa at the DR3 differences.
Think it might be time to invest in a 2TB SSD.
Cool. Let us know how it works out.
Won't work. 256gb minimum. A 32GB flash drive won't cut it.
Why?
Because that is the minimum requirement set by Microsoft?
256GB or larger and USB 3.0
Should a 256GB flash drive work? Just curious.