August 18, August 17, July 21, Rebecca Kenney My favourite gaming console is the PS4, of course, and in my spare time I love to write. Related Articles. December 18, Bloodborne and Super-Tough Gaming April 10, Notify of. Inline Feedbacks. I still prefer to have the physical box and disc. It depends on the price. There seem to be fewer discounts on the digital versions so far. I haven't heard of any hybrid drives where you actually have access to the solid-state portion of the drive.
Instead that's abstracted away and only the drive controller knows about it. It's the drive controller that's responsible for determining what should be mirrored onto the solid-state portion of the drive based on access frequency.
Think of a hybrid drive as a standard drive with much larger cache than a non-hybrid drive. So a game that doesn't use the same assets with high frequency won't really benefit that much from a hybrid. That allows you to have a larger cache SSD than you would otherwise have in a prepackaged hybrid drive. All download so far. I have no desire for disc games anymore. I'll probably end up with some eventually if I'm buying an older game and it's cheaper that way, but that's pretty much the only reason for me.
I don't resell games. I don't have any desire to keep cases anymore. Bandwidth isn't a concern for me. Evan E wrote: Disc - minimizes the possibility of server closures and the inevitable hard drive deaths taking my game from me.
Well, both MS and Sony let you redownload, so hard drive deaths aren't really a concern. Yes there's a chance that the stores will get shut down, but I only see that happening in a situation where the console is already dead. I figure that by that point, I either won't care about playing these games anymore, or I can buy them on disc for super cheap. I don't see any reason to buy the less convenient form factor now to account for this kind of risk.
Besides, it's not like discs are immune to loss You're not describing a hybrid drive. A hybrid drive appears as a single drive - the drive controller is constantly swapping recently-used data to the SSD, on the assumption that you'll be re-using that data.
You don't have any input over that with a hybrid; to you, and the computer using it, it just looks like one drive. In the case of a PS4, the solid state part of a hybrid drive will probably wind up containing the OS, since you use that every time you boot up, and data from the most recent game you played. So rebooting that game will be slightly faster, but booting up a new game won't show any benefit. I just grabbed an article at random; there's a number of comparisons out there, showing basically the same thing.
It's definitely not worth the price premium on an SSD; Sony designed the PS4 with a spinning drive in mind, and it simply doesn't have the bus bandwidth to take advantage of an SSD. We have it here too and call it the Australia Tax. Disc, because I am a sucker for collector editions. And discs tend to be on sale more. Thanks for the heads up. Time to get Best Buy to price match it. PS4 disc or download games? DRE Louis XVI. Ars Tribunus Angusticlavius et Subscriptor.
Ars Legatus Legionis et Subscriptor. Ars Scholae Palatinae et Subscriptor. SilverBlade wrote:. You'll have to tear the discs out of my cold, dead hands!
Ars Praefectus et Subscriptor. Here you can adjust the partition size on the target disk. I hope the 4 methods can help you to free up space on your PS4. Deleting uninterested games and files can deal with "PS not enough space" problem. For example, it can write zeros to a hard drive to wipe your old PS hard drive after cloning.
My PS4 is not enough storage!! Still Need Help? Have your problem been solved? The world is a stage, and the stage is a world of entertainment. Self proclaimed "Hank Hill" of the Switch board.
User Info: stevetherican. PsychoWolfX posted Did this exact same thing. Will be looking into an 8tb external this holiday. But yes both forms are exact same hdd space.
User Info: Lamace. Yes, they take up the same space. However, disk based games install infinitely faster than downloads of the same game. User Info: Rayder. This gen, a disk is nothing more than an install vessel and DRM dongle. I'm 53 and I like playing video games. They are fun and I like them, so I play them. So there. Thanks for letting me know.
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