Bigkopman Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I just received my new 2TB HD for it and have now finished changing it over and re-installing software, saves, etc. It really was a piece of piss and here's the link to a guide I followed. http://uk.ign.com/wikis/playstation-4/How_to_Replace_a_PS4_Hard_Drive Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted December 31, 2014 Share Posted December 31, 2014 I upgraded my PS4 HDD a few months ago to 2TB. I bought a Seagate/Samsung from Argos for about sixty quid, put the old PS4 HDD in its enclosure and I now have a spare 500GB USB portable drive. So easy to do. It's a pain having to transfer each save individually, though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 What's the process for this like? I need to upgrade, proper run out of space. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 27, 2015 Share Posted March 27, 2015 Use one of these: http://www.argos.co.uk/static/Product/partNumber/2489935.htm and this guide: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-how-to-cheaply-upgrade-your-ps4-to-2tb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I can't do that. I need to have everything I own available to play at a moment's notice. That and I am fully digital on PS4 currently, no discs whatsoever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bigkopman Posted March 28, 2015 Author Share Posted March 28, 2015 Hendo, it's really easy. Any help needed just ask buddy. The link I put before is what I used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyKurosaki Posted March 28, 2015 Share Posted March 28, 2015 I'll have to do this at some point. Deleting things is a good idea in theory. But I do that already. Pretty much every fucking game is 35/40gb. 4 of those, and your seemingly big hard drive is pretty fucked. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 GTAV is massive, something like 60gig and that's the disc version. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndyKurosaki Posted March 29, 2015 Share Posted March 29, 2015 Borderlands has an update of 8gb. Yeah,that helps. I'll give it a little longer,but sooner or later ill totally need an upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Gonna start this today. Did anyone who did this backup their saves to the USB stick or just rely on the cloud saves? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I backed them up just to be extra safe, but ended up grabbing them from the cloud afterwards. Do you have a spare external hard drive? The process has been made really simple now if you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 No I had a couple of external ones I used to use purely to hold music files but they both broke so I gave up on external storage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 It's still an easy process, just the downloading all the games and updates after takes time. I set everything going and then put the PS4 into rest mode overnight. Also, copying/downloading each save individually is a bit annoying. All worth it in the end, though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I'm just about to go out and pick up the stuff now. I've got the drive to pick up (same one you linked to) and a 32 gig flash drive. Would I be able to move some of the smaller installs across using the flash drive or is it still a case of re-downloading everything? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 I think the only things you can back up to a flash drive are the saves. This may have changed now you can copy the entire storage to an external drive, though. Instructions for installing the firmware, plus the firmware itself, at the bottom of this page: https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/system-updates/ps4/#newinstallation Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Ed! Have I bought the wrong thing? The drive you linked to is encased in plastic with what looks like a mini USB socket. Am I meant to rip it out of the plastic or is this just the wrong drive? Also it dawned on me that I'm gonna lose PT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
retroed Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 You rip it out, carefully, then remove any screws, rubber nubs and USB mount from the back. You can put the PS4 hard drive back in there when you're done and use it as a 500GB portable drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hendo Posted May 13, 2015 Share Posted May 13, 2015 Yep just done that, perhaps not all that carefully though. Ah well, it'll still work as a back up drive for some stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 In the process of doing this at the moment with the drive that I bought from Ed. So far so good, although I didn't bother to back anything up because I'm a rakish mother fucker. Don't all my saves go to the cloud anyway? I think pretty much the only thing on there was Pinball high scores and some Track Mania times... I figure, seen as I'm away all next week, might as well leave it in stand by and pull back down all the games and updates and stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jimboxy Posted June 4, 2016 Share Posted June 4, 2016 Annnnnnd done. All the installs are currently trickling down my internet pipe as I type this. Managed to get all my saves back as well. Pretty painless really. Unlike Hendo I managed to keep this original drive enclosure in a fit state so popped the old PS4 HDD back in there and made it into a 500 GB portable hard drive. What was confusing is that the computer doesn't initially recognise it. Had to go into disk management and manually erase all the PS4 partitions and format the drive to get it working. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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