World's Fastest PS4 & Xbox One? #Helpful Post

One of the biggest problems with the current consoles is that they come with slow hard

drives. Microsoft recently released a slightly faster Xbox One Elite model

but we can do better. With the PS4 it’s pretty straightforward to upgrade.

The top glossy piece will pop right off where you’ll find a single screw holding in the

standard 500 gigabyte hard drive. Once you slide it out you just need to undo the four

screws holding the drive in the cage and it’s free. If you’re upgrading your current PS4

you should make sure your saves are backed up before getting to the fun part: the SSD.

A solid state drive is the key to supercharging your console with faster loading times and

the PS4 will support any 2.5 inch drive that’s 9.5 millimeters or thinner which is basically

every SSD ever. Slide it back in the drive tray, screw it in and you’re ready to go.

Now you just need to reinstall the PS4’s operating system which you can download on

Sony’s site and I’ll have that linked in the description. Grab a USB flash drive and

format it as FAT32, you’ll need to create a folder on the drive called PS4 and then another folder

inside that one named UPDATE, both all in caps. Then drop the PS4 update file on

the drive and let it copy. Plug the USB drive into the PS4 and hold the power button for

at least seven seconds to get it to reboot in safe mode. Select the initialize and reinstall

software option and give it a few minutes to get the SSD ready. After the normal PS4

setup you’ll have a fresh, brand new PS4 install with an SSD. While this is pretty easy

to do on the PS4 it's dead simple on the Xbox. Instead of replacing the hard drive the Xbox One

supports running games off of a USB 3.0 drive as long as it’s over 256 gigabytes. I’m

using a Samsung T1 which is basically a full speed SSD in a small enclosure, plug it in

and jump into the storage options inside settings. You’ll have to format it to make

it a dedicated drive for the Xbox but after just a minute it’s ready to go.

You can choose to install games either on the internal drive or SSD along with moving

games back and forth right from the apps menu. While the PS4 method is cool it is so

much easier to just plug a drive into the Xbox and it works. On top of that you're

still able to keep not only the internal hard drive but also your SSD to give you extra storage.

So let's take a look at the actual advantage of upgrading your console.

Since the PS4 is 100% SSD based now

you’ll see a slight improvement in boot times but the main advantage is in games.

On Battlefront you’ll see a small but noticeable improvement of about eight seconds. An open

world game like Grand Theft Auto 5 is even bigger, loading in 27 seconds on the SSD compared

to 42 on the normal hard drive. Just Cause 3 sees the biggest gains, loading over twice

as fast on the SSD compared to the hard drive. Jump over to the Xbox and Just Cause shows an improvement

with the SSD but it’s not as drastic at a little over 30 seconds. A less massive game

like Forza 6 is only around six seconds quicker to load but going back to a huge open world

game like Fallout 4 again the SSD is over twice as quick to load. While the stock hard

drive is fine and hybrid drives can get you a decent improvement if you really want to

go all out a full SSD gives you the best performance. If you guys enjoyed and want to see more videos

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for watching and I will catch you in the next one.

Microsoft recently released a slightly faster Xbox One Elite model with a bigger hybrid hard drive

You just ruined the illusion!