There is a common type of people who do not like to customize equipment, especially if it works well out of the box. When purchasing a new revision of the PlayStation 4, I did not want to change anything in it for fear that something would break, and the tampering would void the store’s warranty. After six months of active use of the console, it ran out of space. I deleted unnecessary videos and screenshots, but the situation did not improve much.

As it turned out during a short search for information on the Internet, replacing a hard drive compatible with the console does not void the warranty of your PS4. And since you can't buy external storage for your console and use it for your favorite games, there is no other way out of the situation other than replacing the internal hard drive.

Standard 2.5″ HDD

Before feverishly bringing your hard-earned money to the store, you should decide on the type of “hard”. PlayStation 4 supports any drive with SATA interface, which means the list of potential hardware is slightly lower than when choosing similar components for your computer. True, for the sake of users, the physical size of the drive should fit into the 2.5 form factor.

In fact, you can connect any hard drive to your PS4, even one that doesn't fit the console. This can be done using a special SATA cable, but then you will have to keep the side cover of the console open or buy a monstrous tombstone invented by craftsmen from heaven. Doesn't sound like a plan.

2TB data bank or just a “coffin” from Nyko. Essentially this is a standard 3.5″ drive for $40

In order to remain within the bounds of decency, we will opt for “laptop” drives. And evil tongues began to advise me to install an SSD. Their prices are falling and the “ruble per gig” ratio no longer looks so scary, although no... it’s still scary. Any 1TB SSD can burn a hole in the average pocket, and there’s essentially no point in installing anything smaller. On paper, the high price pays off with high performance, but not this time.

For some mysterious reason, the reading speed from the internal drive in the PS4 remains somewhere at the level of ancient SATA-2 controllers, which means all the delights of an SSD can be safely divided by 2 and here you can buy of this type storage goes into madness. You can, of course, criticize Sony's lazy engineers and programmers, but we must give them their due - they have significantly reduced the list of potential drives. Our gaze fell again on time-tested hard disks. File system PS4 can't run at high speeds, but you can still get something out of it. For the sake of economy, the console has a very “default” 5400 rpm hard drive. If such numbers don’t tell you anything, then imagine a Volga car – slow and unresponsive. You are on the right track.

Since volume still matters, and it’s also possible to squeeze out maximum speed on this thorny road, let’s take a closer look at faster hard drives. I reduced the list again, this time to a 7200 rpm HDD. But then my gaze suddenly settled on a rather interesting category - SSHD.

Just like in the comic book of the same name, Blade took the best of both worlds, and SSHD combined all the advantages of two types of drives. From the usual hard drives they got a modest price for precious volume, and from SSDs they got frantic speed. A kind of hybrid... although it is a hybrid.

Hybrid drives are not a strange animal, but just a logical choice for the current state of affairs. The price is the same, but the speed is pleasantly higher. It still can’t get any worse, so realizing all the risks, I looked towards the terabyte Western Digital WD10J31X. And I was pleasantly surprised.

Size of 1TB "hybrid" compared to OnePlus One

It turns out that in everyday life the hybrid works much smarter than its iron counterparts. It analyzes the most frequently used files and simply caches them into fast flash memory. A couple of hours in some multiplayer shooter or RPG with a giant open world and the download speed has become noticeably better. Even the system itself began to work more pleasantly. No matter how embarrassed I am that the PS4 is a classic console, it is subject to the same laws as computer hardware. Where SSD unexpectedly fails, SHDD comes to the rescue.

My choice

The hybrid I chose really turned out to be successful. Depending on the game and situation, loading times are 5-20 seconds faster. Sometimes the difference is unnoticeable or nonexistent, but with a minimal difference in cost and decent volume, this is an extremely pleasant bonus. Now there is definitely no point in tilting your choice towards regular hard drives, and buying an SSD for use in PS4 makes no sense at all.

No matter how much I was previously confused by the idea of ​​such a console upgrade, replacing the internal hard drive with a hybrid turned out to be best idea. And most importantly, the volume is enough for all your favorite games. Skepticism began to dissipate even during the replacement of the hard drive, which even I coped with.

How to change the hard drive on PS4 yourself

Before removing the cover from the console, you need to backup your saves and settings to a regular USB drive, fortunately this is done in a few clicks. Gigabytes of downloaded games and applications will have to be downloaded. If you have not used P3 accounts and everything is in order with licenses, you can safely download purchased games and DLC fromPlayStation Store. This will take time, but it won't cause headaches.

Step-by-step instruction:

1. Make a backup of all your saves to a flash drive or to the console’s cloud service (if you have paid for a PS Plus subscription). By the way, some online games (approx. Destiny) store your data on remote servers, so there are no local saves.
2. Remove the side cover of the console with a slight movement to the side, unscrew one screw with a Phillips screwdriver and remove the basket with hard drive.
3. The hard drive itself is riveted to the cage with four more screws. It’s not difficult to unscrew them, put a new hard drive in their place, screw everything back and insert it into the console.
4. Your new hard drive does not contain the PS4 operating system, so you need to download and install it. This can be done atofficial website . Just don't press the top DOWNLOAD UPDATE button. Sony wouldn't be itself if everything was obviously simple. First you need to scroll the page to the very bottom and download the file PS4UPDATE.PUP, which weighs more than 800 MB. Yes it installation file PS4 operating system called update, do not pay attention. Create a PS4 folder on the flash drive, in it there is another UPDATE folder and move the file with the operating system into it.

1. Insert the USB drive into your console, turn it on, and follow the onscreen instructions. The system will update itself to latest version, and then will offer to set the basic settings and restore account PlayStation Network.

PS4 owners are in for a real treat in 2019, at least in terms of exclusive games. The most significant of them are already preparing for release. In 2019, you definitely won’t regret purchasing the console.
5 years have passed since the release of PS4, and its popularity is still growing. It breaks sales records, which recently exceeded 86 billion consoles (which cannot be said about the Xbox 360). 5 years is quite a long time; there are suspicions that the console will not last more than 2 years. Moreover, there are many rumors and speculations that in 2020 the company will introduce a new model - PS 5.
The wait is at least 2 more years, which means there will be many PS4 exclusive games ahead. Some new products of 2019 are considered the most anticipated in recent years. Naughty Dog studio will finally present a sequel to the zombie action game The Last of Us, and Hideo Kojima promises to release Death Stranding, his first development after leaving Konami. So New Year will pleasantly surprise all PS4 owners.
Days Gone
Release date: April 26, 2019
Developer: SIE Bend Studio
Publisher: Sony
It may seem like the theme of zombie games has been exhausted, especially since The Last of Us 2 eclipsed most of them. Nevertheless, fans of the genre should definitely visit another post-apocalyptic world. Days Gone is a survival adventure game with horror elements. A former criminal becomes a bounty hunter in a world ravaged by a pandemic - an epidemic that has killed almost all of humanity and turned the survivors into zombies. And these zombies are evolving quickly. The peculiarity of Days Gone is the changeable weather conditions, as well as the cycle of day and night, which significantly affects the zombies: in the dark they become faster and more ferocious, as in Dying Light.
The Last of Us 2
Release date: 2019
Developer: Naughty Dog
Publisher: Sony
Naughty Dog spent the second half of 2018 making trailers for The Last of Us 2, including gameplay for E3. It was so good that some professionals began to claim that it was a fake. The developer reassured fans of The Last of us 2 that the gameplay is real. However, the exact release date is not yet known, only the year is 2019. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world several years after The Last of Us. The girl Ellie has grown up and continues to fight zombies alone.
Ghost of Tsushima
Release date: 2019
Developer: Sucker Punch
Publisher: Sony
Imagine being the last samurai on the Japanese island of Tsushima during the first Mongol invasion in 1274. This is the intro to Ghost of Tsushima, a 2019 action-adventure game from Sucker Punch. The game takes you into a vast world where, against the backdrop of historical events, you, in the role of samurai Jin, must master a new style struggle - “the way of the warrior.” Your mission is to defeat the Mongols in the fight for the freedom of your people.
Death Stranding
Release date: 2019
Developer: Kojima Productions
Publisher: Sony
Despite the fact that nothing is known yet about the release date of the Death Stranding game, it will 100% appear in 2019. There is unprecedented excitement around it, because this is Hideo Kojima’s first game after resigning from Konami. From the trailers and teasers, the game seems confusing and overly complicated. However, true fans are looking forward to seeing Death Stranding, especially considering the celebrities involved in it - Norman Reedus, Guillermo del Toro, Mads Mikkelsen and Lindsay Wagner. The plot revolves around the theme of life and death, but the details remain secret for now.

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The standard PS4 hard drive has a capacity 500 or 1000 gigabytes. It’s not at all difficult to fill it with games and applications. Those who have been using the console for a year, or even less, understand perfectly well what we are talking about.

The loading speed of games depends not only on the hardware of the console itself, but also on the type of disk on which they are recorded. If you don't like that games take too long to load oh, before replacing, for example, a broken HDD, you can take this factor into account.

We're done with the introduction, now let's move on to the selection best hard disc for PS4.

Which hard drive is best for PS4?

The question of choosing any equipment and components for it should be as clear as possible so as not to give away money at random.

Eat 3 types of drives, which are supported by PlayStation 4: magnetic (HDD), hybrid (SSHD), solid state (SSD). All of them should not be larger than 8 terabytes.

Let's look at each option more closely and highlight main nuances when selecting a data warehouse. Which hard drives are suitable for PS4:

1. HDDs

If you were wondering what hard drive is on PS4, the answer is HDD, that is magnetic storage. These drives are the slowest of all that will be presented in this review.

The standard HDD, which is supplied with the set-top box at the factory, has rotation speed 5400 rpm, regardless of volume.

Since we are talking about rotation speed, then, in addition to it, the main criteria when selecting a magnetic drive are: cache size, recording density and interface.

SATA 2.0 interface is suitable only for PS4 Fat and Slim, and for the Pro modification only SATA 3.0. The maximum thickness of the drive is 9.5 mm. Both of these points apply to all options that we will discuss further.

2. SSHD drives

Hybrid drives work faster HDD due to quite “fast” NAND memory. This allows you to quickly load data that the system requests most often than others.

This allows you to combine an immodest amount of memory and impressive speed in one device.

3. SSD drives

Solid State Drive – the fastest of all supported. But you have to pay for speed, and a lot. SSD drive on PS4 with a capacity of 500 GB it costs like 2-3 good HDDs the same volume.

It is noteworthy that a solid-state drive can cost as much as the set-top box itself, or even more when it comes to about a larger volume. We think that buying an SSD for the console is a very questionable decision, since tests show an advantage in loading data of just a few seconds.

What is the best hard drive for PS4?

In terms of direct comparison, it turned out that SSD drive for PS4 literally works the same as an HDD. It is enough to choose a magnetic drive with a higher recording density and a rotation speed of around 7200 rpm. You can easily check the cost of both options on the Internet - HDD will be 2-3 times cheaper.

A hybrid drive is only 1-1.5 thousand rubles more expensive than an HDD, but it will give consoles slight increase in speed. When compared with the same SSD, SSHD will be only a few seconds slower (2-8 seconds difference when loading), depending on the power consumption of the game.

If you still don’t know which hard drive to choose for PS4, we suggest you find out the method that almost all console owners resort to. The ideal option is to replace the old HDD with a new one magnetic disk with better performance and volume, and the old one, if not broken, connect as external using a special adapter. Please note that games can only be downloaded onto one disc. The second one can be connected as a media storage with movies and other things.

Hard drive for PS4 1TB(HDD) can be bought for about 2.5-4 thousand rubles, depending on the characteristics of the drive.

How to change PS4 hard drive

If you paid subscriber on PSN, copy the data to the cloud, and then download from the Internet to a new drive. If not, you can copy data to PC. You can find out how to connect a PS4 hard drive to a computer on the Internet.

To do backup copy to a flash drive or external storage device, you need:

Open “Manage saved application data” - “Data in system memory”;

Select the drive with the button X and press "Copy".

It is best if the flash drive you want to copy data to is formatted in exFAT. Other formats do not allow copying large files or are not supported at all.

PS4 firmware may need to be flashed after replacing the hard drive (system update). detailed instructions and the update file itself is there on the official site Sony PlayStation 4 .

Let's look at replacing a disk using the PS4 Fat as an example. First, the set-top box must be disconnected from the network and all wires removed. By sliding the glossy cover and removing the fastening screw, as well as side screws, remove the hard drive from the tray. There is no need to remove the rubber pads.

To recover data from a flash drive, follow the “Settings” - “Manage saved application data” - “Saved data to USB” and select “Copy to system memory”.

For everything to work out, you first need to log in to the PSN account from which the reservation was made.

This is the question, how to replace one PlayStation 4 hard drive to another, can be considered closed.

• PS4 hard drive can be changed without much effort
• HDD bay accommodates models in 2.5-inch form factor with a maximum thickness of 9.5 mm
• Replacing the drive will not void your warranty.
• PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro can be rearmed just as easily
• Recommendation for higher speed: Western Digital Blue SSD, 1 TB
• Recommendation for larger capacity: Seagate FireCuda, 2TB

PS4 with SSD: maximum benefit

Most PS4 consoles come with a 500GB hard drive. First of all, the most affordable offers with PS4 Slim in stores such as M.Video, MediaMarkt, etc., as a rule, contain exactly this basic version and very rarely - a larger disk. Meanwhile, many modern games for PlayStation 4 they already require from 30 to 50 GB of free disk space on the console drive. Thus, unless you want to constantly deal with removal and uninstallation, the 500 GB hard drive will have to be retired in a timely manner and a thoughtful replacement will be carried out.

Depending on your budget, you can choose between affordable solutions or a luxury upgrade. Since the PlayStation 4 works with regular SATA HDDs, you will achieve the greatest effect - as in the case of a PC or laptop - by using an SSD drive.

And although you won’t get higher fps (frames per second) in games, the duration of the boot process can be significantly reduced, since solid-state drives have much faster access time to information. But in practice, there is also a dependence on the PS4 model that you have at your disposal.

While the SATA controllers of the original PS4 and PS4 Slim only support the SATA-II standard, thereby operating with a bandwidth of 3 Gbps (theoretically up to 375 MB per second), the PS4 Pro already offers SATA-III and throughput up to 6 Gbit/s. Thus, in the PS4 Pro, the SSD is potentially capable of delivering greater performance than in the PS4 Slim.

As for the model variety, the choice here depends, first of all, on your budget. In principle, we recommend looking at SSD drives with a capacity of at least 960 GB. The current maximum is presented Samsung SSD 850 EVO with 4 TB of disk space, which, however, costs more than 90,000 rubles. This choice cannot be called an economical solution. Instead, we recommend one of the most affordable terabyte SSD drives - the Western Digital Blue 1 TB, which costs about 20,000 rubles.

Increasing PS4 storage: you can do it cheaper

An interesting intermediate solution is a combination of solid-state and conventional hard drives - a hybrid drive. These specific drives are essentially just a regular hard drive, but come with an additional smart SSD cache that automatically stores your most frequently accessed data, making it much faster to access. The ideal solution seems to us to be the Seagate FireCuda 2TB, which is an SSHD drive with a lush 2 TB of storage space and is suitable for use in both the regular PS4 console and the PS4 Pro. In addition, with a price of about 7,000 rubles, this model also offers very good value prices and quality.

However, the cheapest alternative is the classic HDD. 2 terabyte external hard The Seagate Backup Plus Slim drive uses a Seagate Spinpoint M9T as a base. As one of the 2 terabyte hard drives With a thickness of 9.5 millimeters, it fits seamlessly on the PlayStation 4 and all other versions of the console. Due to the low cost, which is approximately 5,500 rubles, this model can be recommended as an ideal choice for bargain hunters.

A somewhat workaround, but in principle also an interesting way to upgrade, is to use an adapter for external hard drives, which, using a SATA extension cable, will allow you to connect large 3.5-inch models. An example is the Nyko Data Bank, which is installed in place of the hard drive cover of the original PS4. The new “cover” offers space to install any hard drive, which is then connected to the PS4 using a SATA cable. The disc compartment provided in the console design remains empty. Depending on the revision, 3.5-inch HDDs with a capacity of up to 3 TB (CUH-11xx) or even 8 TB (CUH-12xx) should be supported. There are currently no options for PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro.

However, with the release of firmware 4.50 it became possible to use external USB drives, as was previously done on Xbox One. The cost of such drives is approximately the same as the cost of internal ones, but you do not replace the old hard drive, but add additional memory for games.

This article provides only official information about replacing the hard drive (HDD) in the PlayStation 4 game console yourself, so all the steps described in this manual, are performed by users at their own risk. The editors of the site do not bear any responsibility for the occurrence of any problems during or after these manipulations with the PlayStation 4 game console and strongly recommend that you entrust this and similar work on replacing components of the PlayStation 4 game console to certified specialists from Sony service centers.

PS4 only supports 2.5-inch hard drives, as well as hybrid and solid-state drives (SSD), Serial ATA standard. Although other drives may also be suitable, Sony recommends using those officially supported by the PS4 system, so take the time to find out which hard drives are compatible to avoid unnecessary expenses, especially given the already high price of the PS4 in Russia.

Quick Review

The process consists of four main steps:

1. Create a backup copy of your saves.
2. Replacing the hard drive
3. Reinstalling the operating system.
4. Restoring a backup copy of your saves.

Backing up your saves

PS4 game data and saves can be backed up to a USB drive. Also, PlayStation Plus subscribers can save this data to cloud service.

1. Connect the USB drive to the PlayStation 4.
2. Select “Settings” from the PS4 main menu.
3. Select > >
4. Select a game.
5. Use the X button to mark the saved data you want to copy, and then select .

Attention: To create a backup copy of your data, you need to update the system software and log in to the servicePSN.

Replacing the hard drive

If you have lost the HDD bay cover, bolts, mounting bracket, or other PS4 components, please contact our department for assistance. technical support Sony company.

Operating system installation

After replacing the hard drive on PS4, you need to install operating system. By using personal computer, save the system update file to a USB flash drive for reinstallation. This will require about 1 GB free space on a USB stick.

1. Create a folder on the USB flash drive called “PS4”. Create another folder in the “PS4” folder and name it “UPDATE”.
2. Download the system update (file PS4UPDATE.PUP) from the official Sony PlayStation website and copy it to the “UPDATE” folder. Attention: download system updates forPS4only from the official Sony PlayStation website.
3. Completely turn off your PS4 game console. Make sure the PS4 power light is off. If it glows orange, press and hold the Power button for at least 7 seconds (until you hear a second beep).
4. Connect the flash drive with the system update to the PlayStation 4 USB connector and start the PS4 in safe mode, holding down the power button for 7 seconds.
5. Select “Initialize PS4” and follow the system instructions to complete the installation.

Attention: IfPS4does not find the update file, check the names of directories and files onUSBstorage device Folders and files must be single-byte characters using capital letters.

Copying a save backup

You can copy game saves from a USB drive to your PS4 system by following these steps.

1. Connect your USB drive to your PS4.
2. Select “Settings” from the PS4 main menu.
3. Select > > .
4. Select a game.
5. Use the X button to highlight the saved data you want to copy, then select .

Attention: Forrecovery reservecopies fromsecurityyou need to log in to the PSN serviceusing the same account from which the backup was made.

If you have backed up your saves to a cloud service using PlayStation Plus, you can begin to restore them safely.