The M8 is a decent drive, I have never had any issues with them. The M9T is due out soon in 1.5TB and 2TB which will likely drive prices down even further.
Apparently the 2TB M3 slimline portable USB3 drives use the new M9Ts, but no one has confirmed (or denied) this yet.
"Note that 7200 RPM and Hybrid hard drives are not officially supported, and their effects on power drain are as of yet undetermined. Use them at your own risk. "
Western Digital (WD) introduced on Monday a "hybrid" drive for consumers that combines a 120 GB SSD with a 1 TB HDD, thus cramming the high-speed performance of the former and the cheap, high capacity of the latter into one 2.5 inch 9.5 mm form factor.
EDIT: According to PC Perspective - Yeah from what we've seen of the PS4 partitioning scheme, it *might* work if the 1TB portion was already unlocked on a PC and then all partitions deleted prior to installing it into the PS4, but then you're stuck with not knowing where the PS4 puts its data. It's definitely not aware of this SSD / HDD layout, so it'd be a crap shoot as far as performance goes, and it may not like data spanning the logical crossover between the two physical devices.
So by the sounds of it the PS4 would just see one large pool of data and use any of it.. A pity as otherwise it sounds ideal for the PS4. It would be nice for Sony to add "proper" support in the future for these new "Fusion" drives but I won't hold my breath.
"Note that 7200 RPM and Hybrid hard drives are not officially supported, and their effects on power drain are as of yet undetermined. Use them at your own risk. "
So they don't actually mention heat concern.
I must have read it somewhere else, but that is the main concern as it uses more power.
I wonder if Sony are also going to let you plug in an external HDD into one of the USB 3 sockets if you decide you decide you don't want to replace the internal drive but still want more memory.
Doubt they will allow this. However the removable HD is a great feature of the PS4 - I can see future games being massive in terms of disk size and with more and more people downloading games from the Playstation store instead of buying the physical disk this will be a welcomed addition.
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As mentioned SATA2 which is plenty for HDDs.
The M8 is a decent drive, I have never had any issues with them. The M9T is due out soon in 1.5TB and 2TB which will likely drive prices down even further.
Apparently the 2TB M3 slimline portable USB3 drives use the new M9Ts, but no one has confirmed (or denied) this yet.
Thanks Lostlam
"Note that 7200 RPM and Hybrid hard drives are not officially supported, and their effects on power drain are as of yet undetermined. Use them at your own risk. "
So they don't actually mention heat concern.
That's the one I wanted as I have one on my PS3, but had to settle for this -
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-Seagate-inch-5400RPM-Drive/dp/B007NVGWV0/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1385494031&sr=1-1&keywords=1tb+sata
EDIT: According to PC Perspective - Yeah from what we've seen of the PS4 partitioning scheme, it *might* work if the 1TB portion was already unlocked on a PC and then all partitions deleted prior to installing it into the PS4, but then you're stuck with not knowing where the PS4 puts its data. It's definitely not aware of this SSD / HDD layout, so it'd be a crap shoot as far as performance goes, and it may not like data spanning the logical crossover between the two physical devices.
So by the sounds of it the PS4 would just see one large pool of data and use any of it.. A pity as otherwise it sounds ideal for the PS4. It would be nice for Sony to add "proper" support in the future for these new "Fusion" drives but I won't hold my breath.
I must have read it somewhere else, but that is the main concern as it uses more power.
It totally depends on the drive, some 5400RPM drives use as much power as some 7200RPM drives.
Sony should just state max power usage then that way you can make sure the drive you buy doesn't exceed it.
Doubt they will allow this. However the removable HD is a great feature of the PS4 - I can see future games being massive in terms of disk size and with more and more people downloading games from the Playstation store instead of buying the physical disk this will be a welcomed addition.
Exactly mate. It seems to be a very grey area ATM.