Best hard drives for PS4

Digital downloads, Apps, Music, Movies, TV shows, DLC, updates, and more will definitely take a toll on your stock PS4 hard drive. With only 500GB of storage, you'll be needing to upgrade your hard drive sooner than you think.

What is PlayStation 4 has put together a list of the best hard drives to help you upgrade your PS4.

[Nine_Thousaaandd]

I have Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive in my PS4!

Really easy to install and my PS4 boot and loading times are pretty fast too! Highly recommend going with a Hybrid SSD.

[hollabox]

I wonder if WD Black Dual 1TB hybrid will work in my PS4. Otherwise I'm looking at Crucial M500 960GB SSD for around $400. I probably wouldn't go much faster than that or more expensive. PS4 Sata is only 2 or 3GBps so buying Samsung 830-850Pro is out of the question. I currently have Crucial M500 480GB connected to my XB1, will buy another SSD come July 21st (Samsung 850 Pro 512 GB), and upgrade my PS4 next month to Crucial M500 960GB. I guess the M550 1TB is not too much more.

[madjedi]

The wd hybrid really isn't worth the cost and going with a ssd is kinda overkill. The time difference between a ssd and a hybrid drive isn't anything worth the premium on the ps4.

I wish seagate would release a 2 or 3 tb hybrid labtop drive, then i would upgrade.

It's your money, but the ssd will always be held back by the ps4's sata 2 interface.

[Tru_Blu]

That is the HD I put in mine excellent choice

[hiawa23]

I have the same, and I agree with everything you said..

[sinspirit]

I've been wanting that harddrive in my laptop for ages. Just haven't had a job for a while to save up for anything. Stock laptop drives are typically so slow. >.<

[KinjoTakemura]

I'm going with a 1TB Toshiba hard drive. Just ordered one last week. Used a Toshiba drive to upgrade my 1st ps3 3 years ago and it deals with the build up of heat pretty well, so I expect similar performance on my PS4.

[loopygames]

Sony reps have been instructed to not recommend SSD or Hybrid SSD for use with the PS4.

"Let me tell you that the PS4 does support Solid State Drives and Hybrid Drives. However we do not recommend to install those kinds of HDD to a PS4 because of the frequency the PS4 read/write on the HDD. The PS4 is constantly reading and writing on the HDD so a Solid State Drive will last less time than a normal HDD. That is the reason why we do not recommend to install those kind of HDD to the PS4."

[uth11]

There's a lot of dispute about this.

Supposedly for modern SSDs, this isn't an issue. At least not an issue for the practical lifetime of the drive

[MRMagoo123]

As far as I am aware and have been telling customers such at my pc shop, is that ssds just dont have as much read write as hdds, I can imagine its fine for pcs if you use it as a gaming drive or something but using one for the main drive including OS will kill it a lot faster than hdd. I have had a bunch of the older ssds come into the shop now completely dead and i would guess its probably about 85% that have been used for OS and not just storage.

The newest drives havent been out long enough at the mo to get a proper idea.

[uth11]

yeah, I've heard both sides. Seems like more people say it isn't a concern.

But I still haven't taken the SSD plunge in my own PC, partly due to this issue and partly bc they aren't cost-effective enough yet

[GameSpawn]

It really depends on if the PS4 (and PS3) support something similar to TRIM to hold off writes until a full block can be written.

Regardless, modern SSDs have been manufactured to fail at such a slow rate you can easily get 4-5 years of use with constant reads and writes (it's the writes that do more damage) before too many blocks die causing total drive failure.

I imagine Hybrid Drives have fail-safes that just do not use the cache as much if the SSD degrades, however Hybrid drives are still prone to the same failures as conventional hard drives if too many of the sectors fail to retain data causing uncorrectable errors.

What am I getting to? Every hard drive, conventional, hybrid, SSD, or otherwise, is going to fail. What matters is manufacturing quality and mean time between failures (MTF).

Seagate's professional line of drives have treated me well over the years. Working in a service center that does warranty replacements, I cannot speak highly of Toshiba, Hitachi, HGST (also Hitachi spun off Western Digital), and Western Digital (Blue drives specifically) as these drives have been the MOST replaced drives due to failures. Seagate's enterprise models and Western Digital's Black and Red drives have fared the best in my experience as I rarely see systems come back when these drives are used to replace the aforementioned models.

[Destiny1080]

ps4 doesn't support trim so your ssd will slow down over time, as for the reliability of ssd I wouldn't worry about it they will last longer then your ps4, the 840 evo comes with a 3 year guarantee and the new 850 pro comes with a 10 year guarantee

[Danousek]

I definitely would go for Toshiba.Never Seagate!

[KinjoTakemura]

Seagate has been known to freeze up during OS installs and extended gameplay, probably because of the build up of heat, especially when people have used them with PS3s.

[Beastforlifenoob]

Never, EVER buy seagate. They are renowned for their extremely low reliability. Go with samsung, toshiba or WD.

[MRMagoo123]

The most returned hard drive company in my store so far is WD but then again they are probably the most bought HD too. I am pretty sure seagate makes samsung hdds so telling ppl to avoid seagate and get samsung seems kinda odd right ?

[mmc-007]

I got a samsung 500GB ssd, games load very fast with this expensive fella

[ziggurcat]

i put the hgst 1.5tb in as soon as i got my PS4. so far, so good.

[jnemesh]

There are a couple different Seagate Hybrid drives out there. The one to AVOID is the one with the 8GB cache...THAT one causes the stuttering problems that Sony warns about. The one listed in the article, with the 64MB cache seems to be working well for users.

[jnemesh]

Ok, what's the "disagree" for? Care to explain?

[KingSingh92]

Hi mate, I wasnt the one who disagreed but I think the disagree could have been because you said 8GB cache instead of 8mb

[HyperBear]

I didn't disagree, but I can see why someone might have. What you just described in your initial comment was primarily inaccurate. There are two different Seagate Hybrid Drives (SSHD), but they are the different form factors. There's a set of SSHD's primarily for laptops/ultrabooks/PS4 (That use a 2.5" form factor). Then there's a set of SSHD's for Desktops/Workstations using a 3.5" form factor.

Every Seagate Hybrid Hard Drive made from around 2011/2012 till now, all have the same key features with only the Hard Drive size (varying between 500GB up to 4TB) being the differentiating factor. Every SSHD currently has 8GB of SSD Cache directly embedded onto the Hard Drive itself (which helps with boot times, loading recent applications quickly, etc); And every SSHD has the standard 64MB of buffer cache for the actual spinning hard drive.

So you can't "AVOID" a SSHD without the 8GB SSD Cache, and neither can you purchase a Hybrid Drive without a SSD Cache and just a 64MB standard buffer cache. All Hybrid drives have an SSD cache and a hard drive buffer cache.

Hope that helps!

[mrmack00]

I want the 2 terabyte!

[uth11]

I wish I had this list when I was shopping for a hard drive

I installed a WD 1 TB model WD10JPVX, based on Amazon reviews. Wasn't on this list, but I've had no issues with it.

[PickAShoe]

my 500 GB is already full from family photo, video, and games. I'll be getting 2 TB soon. This will be a long backup before I can play my games again. Q_Q

[robbierav3n]

Installed a 1.5 TB Hitachi drive in my PS4 the day it arrived and it was the best decision I made - not even half way full but it has meant that I haven't had to worry about game captures and digital downloads (no doubt in a year or 2 I'll have to remove all kinds of stuff - but better once every few years than every few months).

Check out the video (youtube - "How to install a 1.5TB drive in your PS4!" )of the installation. Full Disclosure, I work for a company that sells these drives, but whether you buy it from them or a competitor, this is a fantastic drive.

[once_a_jedi]

There was an article on PC World earlier this year that shows Seagate to have the highest failure rate.
http://www.pcworld.com/arti...

[CRASHBASHUK]

I got a 2TB in my ps4 want more info? go here look at message 2 http://community.eu.playsta... I used this psn user advice and it fully workss
also the HDD is a Samsung

[PsylentKiller]

I just did this about a half hour ago. It was so easy and I barely damaged the housing. Just some screwdriver marks around the seam, so I put the old 500gb drive in it and used it as an external drive for my Xbox One. The hardest part of this process was finding and downloading the proper update to a flash drive. And the HDD inside the Seagate was a Samsung SpinPoint, one of the best drives around.

While I like the no clutter feature of an internal drive, I really like the external HDD solution of the Xbox One. You could have up to to external drives connected at once with a max capacity of 16TB. Maybe if Sony sold the housing separately for the PS4 HDD, we could somewhat easily hot swap our drives.

[MUGEN]

I have a 750GB 7200RPM SSHD in my PS4 and PS3.

[FAT MAN GO BOOM]

I have the HGST 1.5TB in mine... i would have got the seagate 2TB one but it was not for sale at the time around here...

I have had no issues with it... and there is tons of room... it is great...

[Gardenia]

When I'm investing in a hard drive for the PS4 I want to only buy one for this generation and 2TB won't be enough. Also right now we have to pay 100-150 for 2TB. That's just too much money

[MAULxx]

I put the 1TB HGST in my PS4 as last year. No problems so far.
How would a hybrid do in the PS3? Is there a marked difference in boot & load times from a traditional 7200rpm HDD to a Hybrid? I currently have a 5200rpm in my PS3 & it seems so slow.