Have you upgraded your PS4 HDD?

[orangpelupa]

want to post this on the ps4-orbis forum but dont want to derail it...

Have you upgraded your PS4 HDD?
What HDD do you use and is there any hardship/problems?

Thank you.

 

[DrJay24]

7200 rpm 1TB, forgot which brand.

 

[djskribbles]

Bought a HGST 1TB 7200RPM drive when I bought my PS4 on launch. No issues.

1TB is enough for me since I don't buy a lot of games, and I sell almost half of the games I buy.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

7200 rpm 1TB, forgot which brand.

Same here - a Hitachi HGST Travelstar H2IK10003272SE. Installed day 1.

 

[orangpelupa]

seems every1 with 7000+ RPM hdd. but the 2TB hdd only on 5000+ RPM hmm..

 

[Deleted member 11852]

seems every1 with 7000+ RPM hdd. but the 2TB hdd only on 5000+ RPM hmm..

I would have settled for a 5400rpm 2Tb HDD but there weren't any when back in October 2013.

 

[goonergaz]

Got a 1GB hybrid in mine, no problems other than the time it takes to re-download/install/etc everything

 

[DrJay24]

Same here - a Hitachi HGST Travelstar H2IK10003272SE. Installed day 1.

I think that is the one I got.

 

[London Geezer]

So does this work? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-9-5mm-Internal-Drive-Compatible/dp/B00I8O6OQ4
Probably the best option right now. Great price too.

 

[orangpelupa]

So does this work? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-9-5mm-Internal-Drive-Compatible/dp/B00I8O6OQ4
Probably the best option right now. Great price too.

yeah its the same drive as the one that people disassemble then put inside PS4 http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_1?url=search-alias=computers&field-keywords=seagate 2tb backup plus slim&sprefix=seagate+2tb+backu,computers

so should work.

 

[MrFox]

I put a Crucial M500 960GB, there was no problem.

The only thing to be careful about is to download the full firmware, not just the firmware update.

The full firmware download is in the middle of the documentation:
http://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/system-updates/ps4/#newinstallation

 

[goonergaz]

So does this work? http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-9-5mm-Internal-Drive-Compatible/dp/B00I8O6OQ4
Probably the best option right now. Great price too.

I thought 9.5mm was a no-no?

 

[MrFox]

I thought 9.5mm was a no-no?

9.5mm is fine, it's the 12.5mm that are supposedly too tall.

 

[McHuj]

Bloodborne has me considering an SSD. Jeez, the load times.

 

[Davros]

As I proved many years ago you need at least a terabyte to store games. If only sony had consulted me.

 

[Deleted member 13524]

I put a Crucial M500 960GB, there was no problem.

So your mass storage is more expensive than the whole console + 2 gamepads?

 

[Shortbread]

Replaced the stock HDD with a Seagate 1TB Solid State Hybrid Drive. It helped eliminate some weird texture streaming issues that I had with GTA V.

 

[MrFox]

So your mass storage is more expensive than the whole console + 2 gamepads?

Yes it's certainly overkill, but this 960GB will be useful for the next 6 years and beyond. I might put it back into my laptop or my PC eventually, which is what I did with my 120GB SSD that I had in my PS3 for years.

It's not for everybody, but 1.5x faster load times and boot times is nice, and it seems to help the games that are streaming assets, less popping.

 

[London Geezer]

Yeah but we all know that size really does matter...... Ordered the 2TB and I can't wait to put it in.

 

[Deleted member 11852]

Bloodborne has me considering an SSD. Jeez, the load times.

Don't expect a radical improvement, Digital Foundry did some testing of the standard 500Gb 5400rpm HDD vs a SSD:

So you'll see a 25-33% drop in load times at most. I would speculate that most PS4 games are compressed even when installed to the HDD and that it's the realtime decompression that is the bottleneck. It's probably sufficient to keep pace with the transfer speed of a typical platter-HDD but not a SSD.