PS4 HD Upgrade

Jayman · 30 Sep 2016 at 09:42

I know this will have been answered in the PS4 thread but to save trawling through it which is the best HD to go for when upgrading the original 500gb HD?

ic1male · 30 Sep 2016 at 13:01

Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2TB.

https://www.overclockers.co.uk/sams...-6gb-s-st2000lm003-st2000lm006-hd-349-se.html

Jayman · 30 Sep 2016 at 15:39

Cheers iC1male, is that better than the Seagate drive I keep seeing mentioned?

ic1male · 30 Sep 2016 at 15:45

I don't know what the Seagate one is but they own Samsung HDD business now anyway.

mahius · 30 Sep 2016 at 19:10

Depends on what you want. The Samsung mentioned above is the best for capacity, but other prefer a hybrid drive for slightly better load times. I have an SSD in mine, but I know that I don't have/play too many games on my PS4, so I'm okay with the relatively low capacity. Some games like Bloodborne (which I have, just not gotten around to playing it yet) really benefit from faster hard drives. Make sure you get a Fat formatted USB drive with the update files on it, to install the PS4 software to your new hard drive.

redknight333 · 30 Sep 2016 at 19:47

I use a Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2TB and had no problem at all in my ps4 with it.

TheVoice · 30 Sep 2016 at 19:51

I have a 1TB Seagate SSHD, performance is good and 1TB is plenty of space. The newer ones have a bigger SSD cache (32GB) so I imagine performance is even better with those.

ic1male · 30 Sep 2016 at 19:53

TheVoice said:
I have a 1TB Seagate SSHD, performance is good and 1TB is plenty of space.

I'm up to 1.2TB full on my 2TB so far.

V F · 30 Sep 2016 at 20:55

redknight333 said:
I use a Samsung Spinpoint M9T 2TB and had no problem at all in my ps4 with it.

Do you ever hear a kind of alarm beep once in a blue moon?

redknight333 · 1 Oct 2016 at 20:05

V F said:
Do you ever hear a kind of alarm beep once in a blue moon?

Alarm beep not that i know of, nothing like that.

V F · 1 Oct 2016 at 21:08

redknight333 said:
Alarm beep not that i know of, nothing like that.

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1175087

WELL, I said that I had my fingers crossed that I'd never encounter this problem - but just this evening, my upgraded hard drive made a very loud beep in the middle of playing The Witness. Yikes.

It was alarming to hear it for myself, but it's reassuring to me that people have been hearing strange noises like that for a long time without their drives actually failing.

beachBOYken · 1 Oct 2016 at 21:11

V F said:
Do you ever hear a kind of alarm beep once in a blue moon?

Yep occasionally, quite rare it happens though.

Flubble · 1 Oct 2016 at 21:25

i get a single high pitched chirp kind of sound sometimes with my seagates, maybe a similar thing? and that happens in my pc too.