For a long time I was afraid to upgrade my PS4’s Internal HDD to a bigger size (I have stock 500gb) because of fear of breaking the PS4. Then I found out that there are no 2.5’’ HDDs with size bigger than 2TB, and 2TB was too small for me, I wanted even more space.
Then I accidentally found out that PS4 uses a really cool File System that lets you use a MAXIMUM of 8TB storage, and you can fill it to the brim and it will NOT lag!! I used to be a PC gamer and every time I downloaded a video game into my PC HDD, I realized that it would slow my PC and, eventually, I will have to reset my PC. So if I wanted to play a game, I had to decide, is this game worth of lagging?
And THEN I found out that I can use EXTERNAL HDD, and it will work with SAME speed as INTERNAL! At this point I decided to buy myself a HDD.
It is not too expensive and has a good Money/Volume/Quality ratio. Results were very good! Because this External HDD is much better than PS4’s stock HDD, loading times were 10% shorter, there are basically much less loading texture bugs, compared to STOCK, and it does not suffer from Slowing Down when it gets filled with games.
As of today, there are 122 games installed, and this External Storage is filled with 2.60TB out of 3.65TB. No lags, everything works like a charm, and it does not get slower. The game’s size ranges from RDR2 (120GB) to Risk of Rain (500MB), and there are no problems.
P. S. PS4 started to switch ON and work considerably Faster after i have transferred all of my games from Internal to External Storage.
P. P. S. Later, after the new External HDD, I replaced the Internal HDD with Internal SSD, and my PS4 slim got another upgrade.
Super P. S. Eng is not my first language, Товарищъ, so sorry for any mistakes. You can ask whatever you want
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Topic: My Experience of using 4TB WD External HDD with PS4 slim, for anyone who is interested or wants to hear feedback
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