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External SSD for PS4 / PS5

  • 14-11-2020 7:23am
    #1
    ManUnited123
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 223 ✭✭


    Hello everyone

    So with PS5 launching next week, I thought I'd upgrade my external storage in PS4 to a faster one so i ordered this 1TB Sabrent Rocket XTRM-Q.

    The drive arrived yesterday and i tried it out on my PS4 and i'm getting very low speeds while transferring games on the drive. A 50gb game took around 15 minutes to transfer on to the drive. I thought there was something wrong with the drive so I tried out the drive on my laptop and it was extremely fast (took around 10 seconds to transfer a 5 gb file).

    I'm wondering what's the issue here, why is it taking so long to copy games over from my PS4? I have the original PS4 (i.e. the first version that was released) so i don't know if this is due to the PS4's USB ports? I think the ports are 3.0 and the drive is a 3.2 so I should be getting faster speeds?

    Anyone has any idea what I might be doing wrong here? The only reason i got this drive was for increased speed so if I'm not getting that, might as well return the drive? Would this drive work better on the PS5?


Comments

  • #2
    heebusjeebus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,783 ✭✭✭heebusjeebus


    Ya it could be the speed of the usb port on the PS4.
    The PS5 has super high speed usb ports.
    I'm going to use a SATA3 to USB adapter for my SSD. I'll use that to store PS4 back compat games for my PS5.


  • #3
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 0 ✭ [Deleted User]


    Presumably copying from a HDD?

    You can have the fastest SSD in the world but if you're reading from a HDD at 100MB/s that's the limiting factor. 50GB at 100MB/s would take at least 8 minutes and then you can double it due to the PS4 being inherently slow, checksumming etc .

    It'll be much better on PS5.


  • #4
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    SSHD is the best solution for PS4, Pro slim or first model, only the PS4 Pro model can take advantage of the actual speed upgrade...

    Standard PS4 and slim model can only read SATA 2 speeds...

    PS4 Pro will read SATA 3 which is slightly faster ...(not a hell of a lot, but noticeable)

    For PS5 we should be looking at USB 3.1 and up caddy's, and NVme 2 SSD to take advantage of the speeds for PS4 games on PS5


  • #5
    Riesen_Meal
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,580 ✭✭✭✭Riesen_Meal


    https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/B07J2Q4SWZ/ref=ox_sc_act_image_1?smid=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&psc=1

    Think I may go with the above and get a caddy....

    Anyone else any input on half decent SSD drives?


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