When you have already made up your mind to upgrade the internal hard drive of PS4, you have to understand next what the requirements are for this purpose to be fulfilled successfully. In fact, PS4 hard drive upgrade requirements are not hard to meet, and actually, there are just a few of them that you …

One of the major factors that determine the superiority of a hard drive is its speed, and PS4 hard drive is no exception. PS4 hard drive spins at 5400 RPM, which is the standard speed of modern 2.5-inch laptop hard drives. But the spindle speed is not the only element with which you can judge …

One of the major drawbacks with PS4 consoles, or maybe the only drawback, is the limited storage space it offers to users. The launch version of PS4 came with 500gb of storage, then, after two years, it increased to 1tb in the updated version of PS4. But, to a wide variety of users, this amount …

The use of portable hard drives with PS4 consoles has major benefits, especially when Sony has offered a wide-range support for portable drives with PS4 System Software 4.5, to the extent that it’s possible now to install games on a portable drive and play them directly from there. But, there are some standards a portable …

Sometimes, when you connect an external hard drive to PS4, you may get a message indicating that PS4 system hasn’t recognize the USB storage device. Something similar to the message in this image: Fixing this issue is too easy, and requires you to do the following: Check if the external hard drive is not defected. …

Since the first release of PS4 in Oct. 2013 until just a few months ago, specifically in Mar. 2017, probably the major drawback of PS4 game console was the lack of support for external storage devices. The absence of this features held off some gamers from considering PS4 as their next game console, especially those …

When you finally decided to upgrade the internal hard drive of your PS4 due to the lack of storage space, the first question you’d ask yourself is: What Hard Drive Do I Need for PS4? What’s the right size and what type of hard drive is recommended for this goal? In fact, there are five …

Since PlayStation 4 was first released in Oct. 2013, many fanboys wished to have the ability to use an external hard drive with their favorite game console, but unfortunately that wasn’t possible until Sony released PS4 System Software 3.5 that allowed the use of an external storage for backup purpose only. Later on, specifically after …

Since the release of PS4 System Software 4.50, PS4 users are allowed to make a better use of USB storage devices than just backup. Now, users can extend the PS4 system storage with the storage offered by the external storage device without the need to replace the internal hard drive of PS4 to achieve this …

The base model of PS4 comes in two hard drive sizes: 500gb in the launch model and 1tb in the updated model. To many users, this size of PS4 HDD is too limited and easily get filled, especially with the increasing size of game files and movies. The most popular way to workaround the limitation …