How to upgrade your PS4 hard drive to 4TB or more
(Pocket-lint) — When the PlayStation 4 was first released, 500GB of storage seemed ample. It soon turned out not to be, however, with game file sizes expanding at a fair rate of knots.
Games, like Call of Duty: Warzone, can easily top 100GB. That doesn't leave too much space on your default drive for many other games.
Even if you have the enhanced version of the PS4 or the PS4 Pro, each with 1TB drives, they will struggle.
Luckily, there are two options for increasing the storage space on your PS4 or PS4 Pro. One is blindingly simple, the other slightly more complicated. They both work very effectively though and aren't too costly.
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The easiest way to increase the storage of your PS4, whether it be the original model, 2016 refresh or a PS4 Pro, is to add a USB 3.0 hard drive to your setup.
Any USB 3.0 drive will do the job and the PS4 supports drives up to 8TB in size.
We chose a dedicated PS4 edition of the Seagate Game Drive with 4TB of space. It's great value at under £100 and is designed to match the PS4 perfectly.
Another great alternative is a WD_Black P10 Game Drive, which is specifically designed for gamers and costs only a little more for up to 5TB.
Whichever you choose, to get it work with your PS4, just plug it into any of the three USB 3.0 ports. We chose one of the rear ports to tuck it out of the way.
You then need to head to the Settings menu in order to format the drive to work as external storage. Head to Devices, then USB Storage Devices. You should see your new drive listed on the next screen.
Click on it and you will be taken to a page with a box that says «Format and Extended Storage». Click on that, wait for a short while and bingo, the drive is ready to use.
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