Looking for a hardrive for my PS4. Help?

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Will somebody help me find the best replacement harddrive for it? Looking to spend 70-80$. I do not care about brand. Would a 5400 RPM Hybrid drive or a 7200 RPM standard drive be better? I kinda think a general 7200 RPM drive. What do you guys think?

I think this is the best I am going to get for the money
http://www.bhphotovideo.com/bnh/controller/home?O=&sku=891232&Q=&is=REG&A=details
Does anybody know how good this website is?

The main point of this is to help make my PS4 faster. A 7200 RPM harddrive would speed my PS4 up by 20ish %. I play games alot and the seconds it saves me would add up over time so I consider it worth the investment.

How would it effect the heat of the console?
http://vr-zone.com/articles/thermal-images-show-ps4-regulates-heat/64084.html
 
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looks good any 2.5 inch drive should work a 3.5 wont fit. if you have a western digital external drive you know the small form factor ones that are usb they will also work but you have to take it out of the case its basically just a laptop hard drive with a usb port. it just depends on what speed they are it might only be a 5400 rpm but it could be a 7200 it just depends the usb 3.0 ones i know for sure are 7200rpm

 
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Yeah, any 2.5" HDD will work as long as it is not over 9.5 MMs. I basically do not understand how things like the Cache, Buffer size, etc. effect the harddrive I wanted someone who does understand such things to make sure that, that HDD would be a good choice for the money
 
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I have read quite a few of those articles but the issue is they always test Hybrid harddrives (5400 rpm) and SSDs. An SSD is out as I do not want to spend a ton of money (or deal with a tiny size) and they tend to have a shorter life than HDDs. To me it would seem a Hybrid harddrive would not work well on the PS4 due to the fact that it is not like a computer where you pull the same files constantly. Under most circumstances it would not be any faster than the stock drive.

On the laptop I am typing this from I have a 500 GB Seagate 7200 RPM Hybrid Drive and it is amazing but most Hybrid drives are 5400 RPM now.....


This is the Hybrid drive they used in the article you posted
http://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Solid-Hybrid-2-5-Inch-ST1000LM014/dp/B00B99JUBQ

http://www.pcper.com/image/view/34110?return=node%2F58932

It is a 5400 RPM drive. Am I wrong thinking this would not be slower than normal 7200 RPM drive in real world use?
 
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Not to sound off but the vast majority is read only as far as ps4 is concerned I have one my self. Like you I dont want to spend a lot of money so I have not changed it out. I cant vouch for every ssd drive out there but i can say that i have 2 different ssd drives in my system a patriot wildfire and a revodrive 3 240GB while i know that battle field 4 takes about 50 GB of space on the drive depending on how many games you have or intend to play all the time Im pretty sure a 240GB drive would be great for a casual gamer. and you always have the disks to reinstall sense you need them in the drive any way to play. only problem i see is the cost . I have had my wild fire drive for over 3 years now and it still benches the same as the day i got it. because i generally only use it for reads.. and thats what they are best used for.
 
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The issue is I I buy to many games for that. My PS4 would be full right now if it had more games I was interested in. I only have 3 (AC4, BF4, and Killzone Shadow Fall) 5 if you count the free PSPlus games. I could deal with 500 GBs but not anything smaller as I do not want to waste time deleting and installing games (though it is very fast on the PS4)
 
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