Talk:HDD SSD

Incompatible drives

• smaller than 160GB
• multidrive bridging / port replicator

In early 2013 the Western Digital Black-II WD1001x06xdtl looked promising, as a SSHD with 1TB of platter storage and 120GB of NAND SSD storage, but as the review in november 2013 shows, it is not a hybrid drive, does not transparently combine both platter and SSD to a single addressable storage over SATA and in fact the overal performance is not even rememberable: http://www.storagereview.com/wd_black2_ssd_hdd_review

This drive will not work since the PS4 will not boot properly and it displays a error message that the Operating System needs a Harddrive with 160 GB of free space at least - and it seems that this Harddrive would be totally insufficient even when the SSD part, which it seems that the PS4 has access for it, would have 160 GB or even more of free space. The PS4 is not able to access the 1 TB of space from the HDD part, so you would not have any space advantage. Even if it would have access to both parts, how it can manage both parts when it needs to create 15 Partitions for running properly (15 Partitions distributed on the SSD and HDD together)? It's a similar situation when you want to run this Harddrive on a normal Computer before you installed a operating System. Any Operating System detects the HDD part only and you can use the SSD part only after installing several drivers.).