Waiting for your games to load is one of the biggest banes of playing video games. Sure, the constant patches and reminders to buy premium content are annoying, but it’s having to watch a progress bar that never actually bears any resemblance to the actual loading progress that’s the most offensive.

So what if we told you you could reduce these waiting periods? And not just by a little, but up to 48%? Well, you can, if you own a new Sony PlayStation 4 Pro and buy a solid state drive to go with it.

You see, the original PlayStation 4 boasted the ability to swap out the internal hard drive and replace it with a faster SSD drive, but the true potential of that drive was throttled by the SATA 2 controller in the console. On PS4 Pro, that’s been upgraded to SATA 3, which doubles the transfer speed from up to 300MB/s to up to 600MB/s.

OK, so we got a bit technical there, but you get the idea - it’s fast. However, there’s only really one area where you’ll feel the difference, and that’s loading games from the hard drive. This isn’t going to speed up your downloads, because the throttle there is on your broadband speed, and it’s not going to speed up installations from Blu-Ray discs, because there the throttle is the disc drive.