

The price and speed difference is to small to spend your time on them, if you want speed, just add 15 USD more and get an SSD. All Internal HDD’s are spinning at 5300 RPM, regardless of the manufacturer. There are no 7200 RPM internal HDD options available.With around 100 USD you can already get decent SSD and HDD drives out there, spending 700 USD on a 8TB SSD just doesn’t make sense. Some games like GTA 5, The Witcher 3 and Skyrim will improve in loading times up to 40%, while others like Crash Team Racing or Mortal Kombat 11 will not benefit from an SSD at all. Don’t expect speed consistency in all games.The PS4 Pro has a faster SATA III Storage Interface that supports drives up to 600 MB/s, anything above that will not be beneficial at all.

The Original PS4 has a slower SATA II Storage Interface that has a maximum bandwidth of 300 MB/s, meaning that you’ll not see any benefit from installing SSD’s that are faster than that.If you’re fine with the loading speed, upgrading your PS4/pro to a 4TB Hard Drive Disk comes in cheap, and your console will support it in full. Upgrade your PS4 to a HDD only if storage is bothering you.Your console will boot up faster, the OS will be snappier and the games will load quicker. Upgrading your PS4 to the best SSD makes sense if loading times are bothering you.So, I decided to grab an SSD on the last black Friday deals haul and upgrade my console, which lead to this tutorial. But, your PS4 will start playing with your nerves once you get to games like GTA V, Skyrim, Witcher or even Crash Team Racing, where loading times can go up to 3 minutes. I own a PS4 Pro with a 1TB default Toshiba HDD, and at first I didn’t mind the loading times since most of the games I played were well optimized, especially when the devs implement some cool loading tricks like they did for God of War.
