Slide the hard drive caddy with the new PS4 hard drive back into the device.Ĩ. Replace the four screws back into the caddy.Ħ. Slide out the original PS4 hard drive and remove the four screws from the caddy.ĥ.
Once you have the cover off, there is only one screw you need to remove.Ĥ. It actually slides off from the center to the edge.ģ. The hard drive bay is located under the shiny panel on the left side (when looking head on to PS4). The update file required is different though and can be found here (approx 900mb file).Ģ. We have previously covered directions for installing this restore file from a thumb drive. We will also need to get the full system restore file for the PS4 software from Sony’s site. Then, you do not have to worry about backing up games, saves files, or anything else. A lot of misinformation about this is floating about on the internet.Įven though cloud saves are available now with PSN Plus, I recommend doing a hard drive upgrade before you do anything else on the PS4. Most 1.5TB and 2TB drives are 12mm in height and in turn will not fit in the PS4. Unfortunately, in most circumstances this limits us to a maximum size of about 1TB. Hard drive or SSD or SSHD (hybrid ssd/hdd).Here are the characteristics of the drive you will need to replace the factory 500GB hard drive: Luckily, Sony allow us to upgrade our PS4 hard drives with any normal 2.5″ SATA2 or SATA3 laptop drive.
Considering these digital storage requirements, the 500GB PS4 hard drives just do not seem big enough. With this, the shift from physical media to digital downloads will be forced upon us all. The Playstation 4 unofficially ushers in the next generation of gaming.
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