PS4 owners are in for a real treat in 2019, at least in terms of exclusive games. The most significant of them are already preparing for release. In 2019, you will definitely not regret that you have purchased a set-top box.
It's been 5 years since the PS4's release date, and its popularity is on the rise. It breaks records in sales, which recently exceeded 86 billion consoles (which cannot be said about the Xbox 360). 5 years is quite a long time, there are suspicions that the console will last no more than 2 years. Moreover, there are many rumors and speculation that in 2020 the company will introduce new model- PS 5.
Wait at least another 2 years, which means there will be plenty of PS4 exclusives ahead. Some of the novelties of 2019 are considered the most anticipated in recent years. Naughty Dog is finally releasing a sequel to The Last of Us zombie action, and Hideo Kojima has promised to release Death Stranding, his first title since leaving Konami. So the new year will pleasantly surprise all PS4 owners.
Days Gone
Release date: April 26, 2019
Developer: SIE Bend Studio
Publisher: Sony
It may seem like the theme of zombie games is over, especially since The Last of Us 2 has overshadowed most of them. Nevertheless, fans of the genre should definitely visit another post-apocalyptic world. Days Gone is a survival adventure game with horror elements. An ex-criminal becomes a bounty hunter in a world ravaged by a pandemic - an epidemic that killed almost all of humanity and turned the survivors into zombies. And these zombies are rapidly evolving. The peculiarity of Days Gone is in changeable weather conditions, as well as the change of day and night, which significantly affects the zombies: in the dark, they become faster and more ferocious, like in Dying Light.
The Last of Us 2
Release date: 2019
Developer: Naughty Dog
Publisher: Sony
Naughty Dog spent the second half of 2018 working on the trailer for The Last of Us 2, including gameplay for E3. It was so good that some professionals began to claim that it was a fake. The developer reassured fans of The Last of us 2 that the gameplay is real. However, the exact release date is not yet known, only the year is 2019. The game takes place in a post-apocalyptic world a few years after The Last of Us. Girl Ellie has grown up and continues to fight zombies alone.
Ghost of Tsushima
Release date: 2019
Developer: Sucker Punch
Publisher: Sony
Imagine that you are the last samurai on the Japanese island of Tsushima during the first Mongol invasion in 1274. This is the introduction to Ghost of Tsushima, the 2019 action-adventure game from Sucker Punch. The game takes you to an endless world where, against the backdrop of historical events, you, in the role of Jin the samurai, must master a new fighting style - the “way of the warrior”. Your mission is to defeat the Mongols in the fight for the freedom of your people.
Death Stranding
Release date: 2019
Developer: Kojima Productions
Publisher: Sony
Despite the fact that information about the release date of the game Death Stranding is still unknown, it will 100% appear in 2019. Around her unprecedented excitement, because this is the first game of Hideo Kojima after his resignation from Konami. From trailers and teasers, the game seems confusing and overly complex. However, true fans are looking forward to seeing Death stranding, especially considering what celebrities are involved in it - Norman Reedus, Guillermo del Toro, Mads Mikkelsen and Lindsey Wagner. The plot revolves around the theme of life and death, but the details remain secret for now.
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On the Internet, instructions for replacing the HDD in PS4 are a sea. But everything I've seen is not detailed enough. When I started replacing the hard drive in my PS4, I ran into a lot of small problems, and the physical replacement of one HDD with another (in my case, a hybrid SSHD from Western Digital) did not cause a problem. But there are nuances in the software part.
All of them are explained in the video, but I will repeat the main theses in text.
1. Unlike the PlayStation 3, the PlayStation 4 cannot back up all the data to external media at all. And here there is a subtlety: okay, we will download the games again either from the Internet or from Blu-ray. Saves are purely theoretically stored in the "cloud" if there is a subscription to PS Plus. However, for example, after reinstalling everything, I easily lost my Rogue Legacy save by simply clicking the wrong answer when starting the game - and this applies to almost all games with Cross-save (where you can play on PS Vita, for example). So, it is better to save it on a flash drive.
Plus, an important nuance - if there is more than one user on your PS4, then all the saves of each user must be saved separately from under their accounts. For example, we play with my wife, she also has a profile set up, but she does not have PS Plus. Accordingly, her saves are stored only on PS4, they are not in the cloud. If I just replaced the PS4's hard drive, we would lose them - all her Persians in Diablo 3, LBP 3, etc. So, it’s better to transfer the most important saves to a separate flash drive (not the one from which the firmware will be installed), moreover, from each profile separately.
2. Downloading firmware from the official PlayStation website was not an easy task. The fact is that there, in fact, there are two files: full firmware and updating the firmware to the current one. Both files are called PS4UPDATE, the link to both files says "download update". The only difference is that updating the firmware takes 200-something megabytes, and the entire firmware takes about 900 megabytes (there are 830-something, but on a flash drive it can take more, so you need a flash drive of at least 1 gigabyte to update).
The coolest thing is that the link to official page with firmware, the largest button leads exactly to the update, which will not allow the PS4 to start from the new HDD. And to download the full firmware, you need to scroll down to " New installation systemic software", expand this item, scroll to item 02, and there click "DOWNLOAD NOW".
3. The flash drive must be formatted in FAT32, you need to create a PS4 folder on it, UPDATE in it, and put the firmware file in the latter. Thus, the full path to the update file will be: Flash drive:\PS4\UPDATE\PS4UPDATE.PUP.
That's right - in capital letters, Latin.
Separately, I note for mac drivers that small flash drives (4 GB or less) standard means OS X is not formatted in FAT32, but in FAT16 - and this may lead to a problem (or may not, but even the mac-drivers who make instructions for replacing the HDD in PS4 use Windows to format the flash drive and create folders - just in case, " curling iron "here is very capricious).
4. And most importantly - absolutely EVERYTHING on the new PS4 will have to be configured again. User profiles, all settings, registration of faces in the camera, you will have to download all the games again (and this is several days, if not from disks - keep in mind), and so on.
P.S. I will soon finish measuring the performance of the WD Blue hybrid drive and tell you if there is an increase in speed. So far, I can say for sure that games from discs began to be installed almost instantly. Vzhik - and all.
One of the interesting features of the PlayStation series of consoles is the function of self-changing the standard hard drive to a larger disk. And in today's article, we will talk about how to replace HDD PS4 and how to put a large disk there, for example, 2 terabyte. So, we change the HDD of the PlayStation 4!
Why is this needed?
There are actually several reasons. Of the declared 500 GB, after formatting and installing the operating system, only 408 GB are available to the PlayStation 4 user, which is extremely, extremely small with the current game size of 30-50 GB.
So by changing the hard drive, you will, firstly, get more free space and do not have to free up space for installing new games. Secondly, the speed of the console, loading games, levels and textures will increase. Thirdly, as a nice bonus, you will have a 500 GB hard drive at your disposal, which can be freely used as an external one, or by putting it in a laptop.
If you consider yourself to avid gamers and love to play the most different games, we recommend that you make this replacement. So, let's get started, but first select the hard drive.
Which drive to choose
The Sony PlayStation 4 console uses hard disks size 2.5", so-called. "notebook format", on magnetic plates. You can buy an ordinary cheap HDD to replace it with a similar size 2.5 ", but with a larger capacity. It is mandatory for a new HDD to have at least 16 MB of cache, and the spindle speed must be 7,200 rpm.
If you're a wealthy gamer, you might want to look into faster and faster SSDs running on solid-state memory. They are noticeably more expensive, but you should not expect an increase in performance and speed, similar to PC games. Also, the disadvantage of such a disk will be a small amount - the same 500 GB or 750 GB. However, in the future, everything can change if Sony optimizes its operating system for SSD.
There are also hybrid variant: SSHD drives that combine standard magnetic platters and solid state memory. Their price is slightly higher than that of the HDD, and the volume is equal to them. On a PC, the advantage is that the small 8GB SSD contains the most frequently accessed data. Since the PS4 is not optimized for SSDs at the hardware and software level, there will not be any special advantages for these types of drives.
For budget gamers, we would recommend looking at older models of external hard drives and looking for models that will cost a little less than their new internal counterparts. Since these are different areas of activity for most manufacturers, it is likely that the "old" model external hard disk, other things being equal, will cost less than its internal counterpart, sold as "new".
Technical information
This article would be incomplete without testing, which allows you to compare different options with each other and the accompanying technical information. Here are the models that have been tested:
- Standard HDD from Hitachi-HGST with a capacity of 500 GB, 5400 rpm;
- Seagate ST1000LM014 Internal SSHD 1TB 7200RPM SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache;
- Internal HDD from Hitachi-HGST Travelstar 0S03563 1 TB, 7200 rpm, SATA 6 Gb/s, 32 MB cache;
- Internal SSD from Crucial M500 240 GB;
- External Seagate STBX2000401 2 TB, USB 3.0.
The hero of our article today, the Seagate 2TB is somewhat behind its Hitachi 1TB competitor due to its volume and design. In general, for doubling the size of the hard drive, the fee is small - about 1-1.5 seconds, although games can be loaded into the console's memory for 2-5 seconds longer. By changing the stock HDD to a 2 TB modification, you will replace the positive dynamics in loading, the only pity is that it will be small.
Of course, our modest testing won't reveal favorites or " the best choice and is in no way an advertisement. If you decide to change the HDD on your PlayStation 4, then we recommend that you look at more detailed and detailed testing in the Internet. The console is very popular and you can easily find dozens if not hundreds of tests. Just make sure that they are all carried out specifically for the PlayStation 4, and not for the PC.
How to change your PlayStation 4 hard drive
Attention! You act at your own risk and accept full responsibility for changes to PS4. The author of the article and the portal site are not responsible for your actions performed as part of the advice of this article and any damage from them.In general, the procedure for replacing a PlayStation 4 hard drive is very simple and standard, Sony engineers have minimized all the risks of replacing it. You will need a screwdriver and straight arms. You can watch this operation in the following video:
Before proceeding with any action, you must prepare a flash drive of at least 2 GB in size by formatting it in FAT 32, creating a folder "PS4", a subfolder "update" (without quotes), and placing PS4 / Update / PlayStation Network data . It is imperative to do so.
Now let's move on to replacement.
Lay the PlayStation 4 in front of you, glossy side up, towards you, with the PS logo facing away from you. It is necessary to carefully “pull off” the glossy cover by pressing with your fingers on the edge where it connects to the second half of the front panel of the case. Thumbs should rest on the bottom of the body.
Immediately before removal, you will hear a characteristic click, and when you put the cover back on, it will indicate that the roof is installed correctly.
It is necessary to unscrew the large bolt holding the bed with a 2.5 mm Phillips screwdriver. hard drive. He will be alone, you will immediately see him and there is no other like it. After unscrewing, put the bolt in a safe place - we still need it.
Carefully pull out the hard drive for a special slot for your finger. Remember the location of the hard drive in bed. Now you need to unscrew the four black bolts located around the perimeter of the bed and put the new hard drive in the correct position - have you forgotten which one? If you forgot, we remind you - the power and SATA ports are back, with the sticker up.
We install the disk back, tighten the large bolt and put the cover back. We start the console.
You will see the message "Failed to start the PS4 system". You need to connect the DualShock 4 controller to it via a cable, and then install the first distribution kit from the flash drive that you should have prepared before starting to change the disk. Follow the prompts on the screen, click "Yes" everywhere. The main thing is that during this whole process the light is not turned off and there is Internet.
Thank you for your attention and good luck playing!
The regular PS4 hard drive has a volume 500 or 1000 gigabytes. It’s not difficult at all to “hammer” it with games and applications. Those who use the console for a year, or even less, understand perfectly well what is at stake.
The download speed of games depends not only on the hardware of the console itself, but also on the type of disc on which they are recorded. If you don't like that games take too long to load oh, before replacing, for example, a broken HDD, this factor can also be taken into account.
Finished with the preface, now let's move on to the choice best hard drive for ps4.
Which hard drive is best for PS4
The question of choosing any equipment and components for it should be as clear as possible so as not to give away money at random.
There is 3 drive types supported by PlayStation 4: magnetic (HDD), hybrid (SSHD), solid state (SSD). All of them should not be more than 8 terabytes.
Let's take a closer look at each option and highlight main nuances when choosing a data warehouse. Which hard drives are suitable for PS4:
1. HDDs
If you were wondering what kind of hard drive is on PS4, we answer - HDD, that is magnetic storage. These drives are the slowest of all that will be presented in this review.
The standard HDD, which is supplied with the set-top box at the factory, has rotation speed 5400 rpm, regardless of volume.
Since we are talking about rotation speed, then, in addition to it, the main criteria for choosing a magnetic drive are: cache size, recording density and interface.
SATA 2.0 interface suitable only for PS4 Fat and Slim, and for the Pro modification only SATA 3.0. The maximum thickness of the drive is 9.5 mm. Both of these points apply to all options, which we will talk about next.
2. SSHD drives
Hybrid drives work faster HDD due to quite "nimble" NAND-memory. This allows you to quickly load data that the system requests more often than others.
This allows you to combine an immodest amount of memory and impressive work speed in one device.
3. SSD drives
Solid State Drive - the fastest of all supported. But you have to pay for speed, and a lot. SSD drive on PS4 500 GB costs like 2-3 good HDD the same volume.
It is noteworthy that a solid state drive can cost as much as the set-top box itself, or even more if it comes. about more . We believe that buying an SSD for a console is a very dubious decision, as tests show an advantage in downloading data for only a few seconds.
What is the best hard drive for PS4
Under conditions of direct comparison, it turned out that PS4 SSD Literally works the same way as an HDD. It is enough to choose a magnetic drive with a higher recording density and a rotation speed of around 7200 rpm. You can easily check the cost of both options on the Internet - HDD will be 2-3 times cheaper.
A hybrid drive is only 1-1.5 thousand rubles more expensive than an HDD, but it will give consoles slight increase in speed. When compared with the same SSD, SSHD will be only a few seconds slower (2-8 seconds difference when loading), depending on the "voracity" of the game.
If you still don't know which hard drive to choose for your PS4, here's a guide that almost all console owners use. The ideal option is to change old HDD on new magnetic disk with the best performance and volume, and the old one, if not broken, connect as external using a special adapter. Please note that games can only be downloaded to one disc. The second can be connected as a media storage with movies and more.
Hard drive for PS4 1TB(HDD) can be bought for about 2.5-4 thousand rubles, depending on the characteristics of the drive.
How to change PS4 hard drive
If you are a paid PSN subscriber, copy your data to the cloud and then download it from the Internet to a new drive. If not, you can copy data to PC. How to connect a PS4 hard drive to a computer can be viewed on the Internet.
To do backup to a flash drive or external media, you need:
Open "Manage saved application data" - "Data in system memory";
Select drive with button X and press "Copy".
It is best if the flash drive to which you want to copy the data will be formatted in exFAT. Other formats do not allow you to copy large files or are not supported at all.
The PS4 may need to be flashed after replacing the hard drive (system update). detailed instructions and the update file itself is on the official website of Sony PlayStation 4.
Let's analyze the replacement of the disk on the example of PS4 Fat. First, the set-top box must be disconnected from the network and all wires removed. By sliding the glossy cover and removing the fastening screw, as well as side screws, remove the hard drive from the tray. Rubber pads do not need to be removed.
To recover data from a flash drive, follow the "Settings" - "Application Saved Data Management" - "USB Saved Data" and choose "Copy to system memory".
For this to work, you first need to be logged into the PSN account that made the reservation.
This question is how to replace one PlayStation 4 hard drive to another, can be considered closed.
