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    Upgrading PS4 Hardrive

    1st of all i hope this is in the correct place.

    Has anyone ever upgraded there PS4 harddrive from the 500GB to say a 4TB? If so which is the best way?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jobo1291 View Post
    1st of all i hope this is in the correct place.

    Has anyone ever upgraded there PS4 harddrive from the 500GB to say a 4TB? If so which is the best way?

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    Current limit of PS4 HDD capacity is 2TBs I believe and can only be done with 2.5" drives. It's easy as pie, but make sure you back up your drive to an external first, it will save you having to download all the DLCs and Updates again.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Justin View Post
    Current limit of PS4 HDD capacity is 2TBs I believe and can only be done with 2.5" drives.
    Wouldn't it be possible to put in the 4TB Samsung SSD? It's the same type (2.5") so it should be possible as well, right? And SSDs are generally faster so it'd be better to put in a 1TB SSD for faster speeds. Or is PS4 already fast enough to not need a HDD?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Walkyr View Post
    Wouldn't it be possible to put in the 4TB Samsung SSD? It's the same type (2.5") so it should be possible as well, right? And SSDs are generally faster so it'd be better to put in a 1TB SSD for faster speeds. Or is PS4 already fast enough to not need a HDD?
    You can use SSDs if you want, saves a few seconds here and there on load times. Biggest benefit you'll see from SSDs is if you run games straight from the drive.

    Also, correcting my last statement, it does seem that they introduced support for 4TB drivesd in the 3.50 update.

    Use any drive 2.5" drive as long as it's not thicker than 9mm

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    Quote Originally Posted by Justin View Post
    You can use SSDs if you want, saves a few seconds here and there on load times. Biggest benefit you'll see from SSDs is if you run games straight from the drive.
    Yeah so if you do a upgrade, might as well switch to SSDs as well to get the speed bonus as well, haha!

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    Thanks for the input so far guys/girls.
    I did some reading and lots of people said about something called a nyko data, but that makes it bulky.
    I'll keep digging. Don't really want to spend mega bucks on a SSD for it, may see if i can get a 2.5" 4TB HDD.

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    I upgraded mine to 2tb - takes about 20min and its the best (cheaper) to buy the USB drive (Cheap Seagate) and pluck the drive out than the drive itself.
    Not sure about 4tb as 2tb seems plenty!

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    Quote Originally Posted by olympicwiz View Post
    I upgraded mine to 2tb - takes about 20min and its the best (cheaper) to buy the USB drive (Cheap Seagate) and pluck the drive out than the drive itself.
    Not sure about 4tb as 2tb seems plenty!
    How many games do you have on your hard drive roughly?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jobo1291 View Post
    How many games do you have on your hard drive roughly?
    You can take PC as an example, seeing as they have usually even bigger amount of games then on the console. With 2TB you'll easily get +200 Games (Of course around 50 are Indie but still)
    When people say they have built their own PC.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Walkyr View Post
    You can take PC as an example, seeing as they have usually even bigger amount of games then on the console. With 2TB you'll easily get +200 Games (Of course around 50 are Indie but still)

    will games from other accounts i've aquired copy across easily aswell?

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    Quote Originally Posted by jobo1291 View Post
    will games from other accounts i've aquired copy across easily aswell?
    Not sure about PS but with Steam it's always bound to an account and you can't execute it. So I assume it's the same there as well.
    When people say they have built their own PC.


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    Quote Originally Posted by jobo1291 View Post
    How many games do you have on your hard drive roughly?
    I got about 18-20 games on it and I still have 1TB left

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