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PS4 System Storage Management - 500GB harddrive

SATA 2.5" with max height of 9.5mm, minimal storage size 160GB (198 HDD models and 336 SSD models comply to that). Ofcourse if you externalise the harddrive there is a whole world of 3.5" drives that are larger in storage size and also cheaper to be gotten.

SSD can be used, but it seems that on the PS4 there is even less incentive (compared to PS3) to replace the drive for a SSD, best price/performance are still 7200rpm drives or true hybrid SSHD drives

it is unsure if TRIM is enabled by default for UFS on the PS4, but on BSD in general it can be enabled with tune2fs -t enable : http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=28004 see also : http://www.wonkity.com/~wblock/docs/html/ssd.html

Size

Replacing the harddrive

Replacing the drive does not void warranty and can be done this way:

Source: https://support.us.playstation.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/5107/kw/ps4%20harddrive

Migrating / copy original data

Acronis True Image, EASEUS Disk Copy, Clonezilla, Paragon Backup & Recovery, Ghost, Gparted etc. can be used to copy 1:1 the original to the replacement.

Speed comparison

(Tested: PlayStation 4 Hard Drive vs. SSD vs. Hybrid Drive)

Capacity

Market size
(base10)
Real Size
(base2)
Reported Size
(base2)
"diff"
Real-Reported
(base2)
Free
(base2)
500 GB 465.661 GiB 408 GiB 57.661 GiB 407 GiB
640 GB 596.046 GiB
750 GB 698.492 GiB
1 TB 931.323 GiB 862 GiB 69.323 GiB 861 GiB
1.5 TB 1396.984 GiB 1313 GiB 83.984 GiB 1312 GiB
2 TB 1862.645 GiB 1768 GiB 94.645 GiB 17767 GiB
3 TB 2793.968 GiB 2673 GiB 120.968 GiB 2672 GiB
4 TB 3725.29 GiB 3579 GiB 146.29 GiB 3578 GiB
6 TB 5587.935 GiB 5390 GiB 197.935 GiB 5389 GiB
8 TB 7450.581 GiB
10 TB 9313.226 GiB
12 TB 11175.871 GiB

Compatibility

PS4 System Storage Management - 2000GB Harddrive

Harddrives, with 2TB of space, which fits in the PS4 without modding the case (like explained at the top of this page)

SKU Compatible Min. FW Required Remarks Tweakers ASIN
ST2000LM003 Yes 1.750.000 1.77 TB available [1] B00LB5Y450
ST2000LM004 Yes ?
ST2000LM005 No USB Interface
ST2000LM006 Yes ?