PS4: How To Upgrade The Hard Drive Up To A Whopping 2TB The Easy Way

Although the new PlayStation 4 is super exciting and encourages you to download games, music, movies and more to the internal storage, it is perhaps a little surprising that the hard drive that comes with the console has only 500GB of space. In fact, reports suggest that the system software takes up a massive 98GB of that, so you really only have 402GB to play with.

[KrisButtar]

I can't find a 2TB to order online :(

[Transporter47]

Guess its too thick. When i find one i'll link it.

[Sarcasm]

You just linked a 1TB HDD...

Edit: Much better :)

[ipach]

too thick. 9.5mm max height for PS4

[Ju]

Link is a 1TB drive. Newegg has 1. But not sure if it fits. Amazon has 1.5TB with 9.5mm http://www.amazon.com/HGST-...

[Anarki]

So 2TB is the maximum?

[ziggurcat]

@ ipach:

apparently they increased it to 12.5mm

http://www.slashgear.com/so...

[JimmyLmao]

here... 2TB PS4 compatible internal HDD

http://gizmodo.com/the-worl...

it is only very new, not sure if it is available for purchase just yet

[UltimateMaster]

Currently, only 1.5Tb are accepted.
However, Seagate is working on a 2Tb that would fit in a PS4.
It's set to be released soon. just google: N4G 2Tb HDD PS4

[Dirtnapstor]

They should allow for an external hard drive. As soon as you start swapping, you have to redownload everything every time. Kind of a pain. Treat the externals like a ginormous flash drive.

[Blacksand1]

You don't need it just buy a 1TB and you will be good. 2TB is to much and a waste of money. 1TB will fit about 25-30 games the 500GB fit 12-15 games. I just got my 1TB to put in my PS4, it was $71 with SAH I only paid $84 for my 1TB from Amazon.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/pr...

[superterabyte]

Say the average games 50GB in size. You can fit 20 games on 1TB. That's not enough.

[Blacksand1]

You not going to keep your games after you beat them most people trade them in, so 1tb is enough.

PS4, Xbox One hard drives will only fit 12 full-sized games. If you know basic math 12+12=24 if you have a 1tb.

http://n4g.com/news/clickou...

[Studio-YaMi]

Things to consider when getting a new hard drive for your PS4 :

http://boxclash.com/ps4-har...

[Sveritas]

Thank you for the guide Studio, 1TB Seagate it is for me!

[I_am_Batman]

I think I'll keep the 500GB in there as long as possible so that the upgrade will actually be worth.

[dragonopt1]

Already got my SSD Hybrid 1TB sitting here for tomorrow, was only $100 on Amazon.

[0ut1awed]

But thee SSD cache portion of the drive is only 8GB.

I'm not sure how beneficial it will be with 50GB games. Although $100 is pretty close to a standard laptop drive anyways so I guess it can't hurt.

Or maybe it can... 7 out of the last 10 reviews on newegg rate that drive horribly. Most of those were DOAs and failures soon after. Be wary.

http://www.newegg.com/Produ...

[Sarcasm]

8GB could be sufficient. How SSHD's work is it caches the most commonly used files, at least on Windows.

I'm not entirely sure an SSHD will work on the PS4 unless Sony designed it to partition files like a PC, which I don't think it does. I could be wrong.

[jhoward585]

If the 50 GB file is one file combined in to one major file or a few files the cache size won't matter much.

cache is used as a management system, the more pieces of files you have the more cache is needed which help make data move faster.

Ex if you test 2 hard drive. One has 8 mb cache, and the other has 16 gb cache and you're transferring one big files you won't see much any different in transfer speed between both hard drive.

[Ju]

Yeah, but that makes only sense if you have a lot of small files you use frequently. Games usually don't work that way. They either have a huge image the stream from or they do not swap in small repeatedly files. But I have no idea but would be curious to see if it actually works. I think I'd rather go for more capacity than hybrid on the PS4. I'd love to have a full SSD. Have one in my PC and would never switch back. But not available in a size one can afford.

[XxGOWxX]

Unless sony have said otherwise the ps4 wouldnt even know its an ssd therefore wouldnt manage it correctly. a proper ssd would still give you the general speed but no trim etc.

[Boody-Bandit]

Yeah I'm going to hold off a bit to install a new hard drive. I want to get in and go off in the next gen as fast and hard as possible. I waited too long to wait more.

3 hours 47 minutes 22 seconds

[Sarcasm]

Whoever is upgrading, keep in mind the PS4 only supports Sata II, so don't bother spending more on Sata III. And go for a 7200rpm drive since the stock PS4 one is 5400rpm.

[despair]

Was it confirmed, all we know is the hdd included is sata II not if it supports up to sata III. It may have been done like that to save costs.

[Angeljuice]

7200 rpm drives produce a lot more heat than 5400 rpm drives. Your PS4 will get hotter if you use one (how much of a problem that causes remains to be seen).

[Sarcasm]

True, but plenty of people put a 7200rpm drive in a PS3 slim and had no issues. And the PS4 only puts out a mere 45C at full gaming load and using the UI at the same time with BOTH the CPU and GPU.

To put it in perspective, my GTX 660SC hits 70C during gaming and my overlocked i7 is 60-65C with a closed loop water cooling.

You can put your hands on 45C and not get burned. Heat is a non-issue thankfully.

[AceBlazer13]

sony says anything outside what they recommend falls on you. they warn you that 7200rpm produces more heat and if this causes anything it's all you.

[EverydayGuy]

SATA 3 Backwards compatible with SATA 2.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

[Sarcasm]

Yes it has been confirmed to work on the PS4, but the PS4 itself is only going to utilize Sata 2 speeds. So it's basically sort of a waste to invest in Sata 3 if it doesn't improve performance.

[Foxgod]

I see no reason for that, the 500gb on the ps4 wont fill up as fast as the 500gb on the x1.

[hazardman]

Lol

[ziggurcat]

uh... there's a hard way to upgrade your PS4 HDD?

edit:

"In fact, reports suggest that the system software takes up a massive 98GB of that"

*facepalm* the OS does *not* take up 98GB.... what a ****ing idiot.

[Visiblemarc]

System software takes up 98 gigs? No... A 500 Gig hard drive will typically have only ~465 gigs available. So, system uses 63 gigs.

[ziggurcat]

not even that since that "report" indicated that 3 games were installed as well...

[Akuma2K]

I got me a HGST 1.5 TB 5400RPM HD ready to be installed tonight.

[ziggurcat]

i just bought that exact drive for when my PS4 arrives...

sadly the first day will be spent backing up the data, and transferring it to the new HDD. i just hope it doesn't take as long as the PS3!

[Akuma2K]

That's cool.....I don't think it'll take that long, might be quicker than you think.

Good thing is 1.5TB should be plenty enough space for where I won't have to upgrade anytime soon, i'm only buying games i know im going to play anyway.

[MidnytRain]

It's funny how a bunch of new PS4 purchasers are feeling forced to buy an upgrade before the console's even out.

[BlackPhillip666]

Its an option and there's no harm in wanting more space.

[MidnytRain]

"feeling forced"

Not sure if you can call it an option when the default is a terrible way to go to begin with. The "option" to hold ten games, lol...

[MasterCornholio]

Well at least they have the option to upgrade their HDDs.

PS4 users can upgrade to 2TB

Xbox One users are stuck with 500GB

Both consoles have mandatoryb installs. Don't you see the problem?

Nexus 7 2013

[MidnytRain]

Yes, I do see the problem. They're handing out a console with small hard drives with mandatory installs = fail.

[cyclindk]

What's the hard way? I heard you get a Plat for that... BRING IT!

[jhoward585]

@Ju

Same here. I'd rather have a huge hd for my ps4 than a hybrid. But knowing myself I'd probably stick with the 500 gb for a while until I round up some more money. Ive already spent about a grand for the PS4 along with some games.

[Indy-Pendent]

I got a question that maybe dumb.... I have an old 1 TB laptop drive with data still on it... If I put it in the ps4 will it accept it and format it? I am hoping that it will as I don't really feel like erasing the hd before putting it in.any help would be appreciated .

[SoulSercher620]

I think it may ask if you want to format it

[Blacksand1]

it should work.

[MetalNCarnet]

I have this 1Tb HDD in my PS4 right now. It works great and it's faster than the stock HDD (better load/install times).

http://www.newegg.com/Produ...

[Sveritas]

http://boxclash.com/ps4-har...

This guide recommends that one too, its good for being 7200RPM, I like the SSHD one by Seagate the load times are coming in just a bit better