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 …

In order to upgrade the internal hard drive of PS4, you need a compatible hard drive that conforms to the standards specified by Sony for this purpose, otherwise the hard drive you picked won’t fit into PS4 as a suitable replacement for the stock hard drive. These standards are that the drive must be configured …

With the increasing demands on storage and the constant release of heavyweight games, the standard internal hard drive of PS4 doesn’t seem to satisfyingly fulfill these demands of modern time. For this reason, upgrading the internal hard drive of PS4 has been a solution that many users go for to work around the storage limitation …

When PS4 was first released in late 2013, a 500gb of storage capacity that game console came with seemed to be pretty enough at that time, taking into consideration the relatively-small storage requirements of PS3 games that time and basing the perspective upon that. But, to many PS3 users, game developers stunned PS fanboys with …

PlayStation 4 (aka PS4) is well known of the ability to store downloaded games on its system, which intuitively implies that it makes use of a storage device where all data is kept on it. But, what kind of storage device PS4 employs? In fact, the storage device of PS4 is featured by a traditional …