How to Upgrade Your PS4 Slim with a SSD Drive - Quick and Easy!
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- čas přidán 5. 02. 2023
- In this video, I will show you how to replace your PlayStation 4 Slim hard drive with a fast SSD. You only need a new drive and a screwdriver and a few USB drives to transfer your data. If you want to upgrade a "phat" model, I have a video for that also.
PS4 Phat SSD Upgrade Video:
• Replace your PS4 Phat ...
Link to Sony's Software page (DOWNLOAD "System Software" NOT "Update File"
www.playstation.com/en-us/sup...
Sony's PS4 Upgrade page:
www.playstation.com/en-us/sup...
Inexpensive 2.5" Sata SSD drives that I've used before:
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Link to PS4 Upgrade Software
www.playstation.com/en-us/sup...
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Still playing your PS4? What are your must have games?
What if your PS4 stuck in safe mode?
GT7
@@JFBangaTV you ever get it out?
Gt7 and conan exiles
Tmnt and Sonic Mania
Fantastic video,
I really appreciate the full walkthrough and even the simple parts like showing what buttons to press and where on the screen to click on.
Thank you for making this video.
Thanks for the heads up with the 2TB Solid State Drive. I must buy that for my PS4 for real.
awesome and really helpful video…exactly what i needed to see to cover my bases and complete my own upgrade.
Great! Glad to help. Thanks for watching!
Thanks for the video. My ps4 is noticeably faster now. You are saving people like me a lot of money!!
Thank you so much, this was a big help, the play station official website did not mention the PS4 folder😭
Good deal. You can also use the HDD you took out of your PS4/ps4 pro and use that as an external drive using a cable that Amazon sells.
I got my hands on a PS4 slim with the 500gb drive. This helps a lot. Thanks
Good luck. Thanks for watching!
Thank you so much, very high quality tutorial!
Great video, this is exactly what I needed.
Awesome. Glad it helped! Thanks for watching!
Helpful, thank you.
Thanks! Excellent video! About to put a 4TB samsung evo 870 into my ps4 pro👍
Thank you very much!
This process was perfect my ps4 works really good now I really appreciate you breaking down every part of each step.
My pleasure! Thanks for watching!
I hada question, so this is my main ps4 where I run competitive games such as GTa5 and Call of duty before this was the original hardrive which has 800Gb and the one I got has only 500GB and I only have Call of duty on it to not overload the new SSD so my question is that does it matter how much space you get or how many games you run on it like Call of duty is 190Gb and I still have like 400 Gb remaining?@@FamilyGeekery
As long as you leave enough space for updates and such, you should be fine.
Okay, Thank you @@FamilyGeekery
Thanks!
Been playing Elder Scrolls Online and my partner wanted to join my adventure after playing skyrim. She'll get my PS4 while I move on to the PS5. Never put a SSD Drive in anything before so learned something new!
Thanks for this! Just bought a ps4 slim used and will upgrade it with ssd. Also plan to change the fan and put new thermal paste on :). Right now i play Assassins Creed 2 and there is soooo many games i never played or gave a chance. So this will be probably be my main entertainment for few years 😁 dont really see the need for a more powerful console rigth now.
Best video out there thank you man
You’re very welcome!
Thank you for sharing this 🙏
Thank you very much!
Really appreciate your guide, big help. Question, if im going to change my hard drive with v10.0 firmware can i lower it down to 9.0 or still the same version?
Nope. You can only stay at the same firmware or go higher.
Sony prevents you from going back down.
Thanks!
i went to playstation website to download the firmware but how to know its the last firmware which its version 11 or old version??? how can i find the lastes firmware they didn't mention anything about that
Hey I got a question, what hardrive would you recommend me to get to fix my ps4 that has corrupted data? I been having this corruption problem where it won’t let me play games on my ps4 and it’s frustrating 😞
I believe there’s some links in the video description for 2.5” SSDs. But really, pretty much any 2.5” sata SSDs will work.
Do I have to use a USB drive to transfer the data or can use a conventional FAT32 disk drive that I use to backup my laptop? Same for the games themselves.
Any kind of external drive will work. And FAT32 is preferred.
Thanks, really helpful video!! I only have one question. If I'm using an external HDD for extra storage for my games, after I start using the internal SSD, the games inside the external HDD are going to run from there? Or is the internal SSD the one that will run all the system and games no matter where they are located?
Thanks for watching, and good question! Once you get the new ssd installed and setup with the operating system, it will work exactly like your old one. When you plug in your external drive, I think your PS4 should see them and run them from the external.
@@FamilyGeekery Thanks for answering :")
Backup files and system software are in same flash drive?
is 2tb ssd the max for internal? some people say 8tb but idk if thats specifically for only the pro
Can I use one USB-stick for both the backup and the system file or do I need two sticks to keep the files separate?
2 separate
Very helpful video. One question tho, if I can't afford a 1tb ssd is it OK to just upgrade to 1tb hdd?
Yes you can upgrade it even with the 1 TB HDD.
Good day, I'm currently running a software version 10 on a 500gb hard drive but I want to increase it to a 2tb! Can I also install an older software version (say 9.0) when reinstalling!?
it says you must have at least the 10.1 version so i don't think so
can I just pull the usb drive out of my ps4, or need to do anything like window?
do i only have to format the usd to fat32 or do i have to do something else (on the formatting side of things)
Yes
Is it compatible to ps4 phat to slim when i swap the ssd card?
Is there much difference between an internal ssd and an external ssd in terms of load speed? I know an internal ssd boots the ps4 up quicker but apart from that is there much difference in speed?
Is night and day difference
external hard drive < internal hard drive < external ssd < internal ssd. in that order from slowest to fastest
If i never turned on the ps4 system as it is brand new and i changed the hdd with the ssd and turned on the ps4, do i still need to install any system file from the ps website?! Or do any reboot?
If you install a new drive, you need to follow the steps to install the operating system. You can skip the backup/restore directions though. Thanks for watching!
Does upgrading ssd improve fan noise?
When I plug the usb to the ps4 after I put the software on my usb, the ps4 said it couldn't read the file. Where did I go wrong at?
1. Make sure the USB is formatted to “fat32” or “fatex.”
2.Make sure the folders on the USB are in all caps. And make sure the ps4 file reads “PS4UPDATE.PUP.
3. Make sure the USB is plugged in all the way on the ps4. I know this sounds obvious, but mine wasn’t and I didn’t realize it until it pushed it in just a little more.
Hope that helps!
Solid State Drive Drive, such a correct name…
i have series fps drop when playing some big games, will upgrading the SSD improve the fps on ps4 slim?
Very much so!
Fps would not improve, Installing a SSD would help it less shuttering make the scene load faster. Well it depends on the optimization of each game
It will only improve fps if you are having issues loading games and if things aren’t loading correctly especially when making quick movements
Which ssd should i buy to do the same as you? Ps4 uses sata 2, thats not compatible with ssd minimum is sata 3
Actually there are sata 2 ssd's but they apparantly degrade quickly and are not reccomended for slower speeds
The PlayStation 4 Slim is compatible with SATA II and SATA III SSDs. However, it's important to note that the PS4 Slim's internal SATA connection is limited to SATA II speeds (3.0 Gb/s), so using a SATA III SSD (6.0 Gb/s) won't result in faster performance due to the bottleneck imposed by the SATA II interface. While both SATA II and SATA III SSDs will work with the PS4 Slim, you might not see the full speed benefits of a SATA III drive.
@@ITWorksSoftwarestill, SSD wil be faster
what if all my games are already on a storage external hard drive
Should I change to hhd or ssd? I have 400gs and I just want more storage like 1T
change to ssd its much faster
And it’s practically the same price these days.
Hello, if you revert back to the original drive do you have to reinstall the system software?, thanks.
No, you can pop the old drive back in and it would be like nothing ever happened. Hope that helps!
Hello, was just about to follow your instructions and I thought this would be an extra safety precaution this being my first ps4 new last week. I upgraded with a 960g Kingston SSD as per your instructions no problem, installed half a dozen games and off I went. I thought some of the games didn't load that fast and thought it would be easy to revert back to the original 500g and run some loading time comparisons, the machine started in Safe Mode and asked for the reinstallation file via the usb, tried a few restarts but the same thing. So tried with the SSD and got the same thing now with no option but to reinstall the system which went smoothly and when restarting all the games and setting were intact. Had me going there for a bit. @@FamilyGeekery
@steamwalker100 wow, crazy. Not sure what causes the safe mode. Glad it all worked out for you.
How much max storage i can upgrade on ps4 Slim
2 or 4tb???
8tb
How to upgrade to a SSD? I am playing Uncharted 4 , farcry 6
instead of a usb drive could I use a micro sd card with usb adapter?
Yes you could. The read/write speeds may not be all that great depending on your card and card reader. Thanks for watching!
What is fat32 and xfat?
FAT32 means File Allocation Table 32 bit and x fat is Extended FAT both are file system partitions
Someone please help me understand the point of the backup.
Is it just for the saves?
or
Is just for non-PSN profiles?
Yes, both of those. And also if you didn’t want to download ~500gb of games from the internet again, lol.
@@FamilyGeekery Soo I can just basically skip it if I have a PSN profile?
@braxen3937 I would make sure any game saves you cared about were synced with PSN. I believe some games don’t use PSN to save games.
@@FamilyGeekery Doesn't PS+ take care of that?
Ah, yes if you have PS+. Not everyone has that (you can have a “PSN Profe” without having PS+
I get to the safe mode part but it wont register my dual shock controller...
Are you plugged in with a good usb cable? Not just a charging cable, but a “data” cable like the one that came with it.
I have a 4TB SSD to install as an upgrade. So I tried using another 1TB SSD to backup my PS4 but it kept indicating not enough space even though the PS4 only had 870GB out of its 1TB being used. Then I tried cloning the PS4 drive to the 4TB but the program copied every partition as is without allowing me to resize, so I would end up with 3TB of unused space. I ended up using the 4TB to backup the PS4, must be partitioned and formatted as EXFAT file system. Then I copied the backup to my 1TB SSD, also EXFAT file system, and surprise! it all fit properly. I deleted the partition on the 4TB drive left it unallocated. Installed it on the PS4 which I was then able to initialize with the "Update" file using a USB Flash drive formatted as FAT32. Finally I was able to restore my data with the 1TB SSD, the one my PS4 kept saying "not enough space" to back up in the first place. Lessons learned: PS4 recognizes EXFAT and FAT32 file systems. You need a drive with twice the capacity for the data you are trying to backup from the PS4.
Great info! Glad you kept at it until you figured it out!
What is the max Gb size for ssd
250GB minimum, 8tb maximum
So I need windows or will a Mac work?
You can burn the image with a Mac as well. Thanks for watching!
13:00 can i skip this part or use tablet instead
You need the file on some device (making sure the software is in the correct file structure so the PS4 can find it). So you can't "skip" the step, but there are many ways to accomplish it. Hope that helps.
when i put my usb in with the firm ware it says cant find the update
Make sure you downloaded the system file, not the update file. They are both on the same page on Sony’s site.
Does the internal SSD also need to be formated?
The PS4 will take care of that.
@@FamilyGeekery Ok, thank you very much!
13:00 will i be able to do it on tablet?
Yes
Can we just clone the hdd to ssd?
So… Can we? That would save a ton of time for users that have a PC. Any gotchas?
@@unstanic Yes, you can. There are tutorials on how to do it. Just make sure the replacement drive is equal or bigger. And if it is bigger, remember to expand the partition afterwards or use a software that does this for you already.
Hi have you got the ssd link to buy? Can we have it?
There should be some links in the description. If not, let me know what size you’re looking for.
@@FamilyGeekery 1 or 2tb thanks!
I just checked, and there are links to 1tb and 2tb drives in the video description.
@@FamilyGeekery i found here! Thankyou
Will this process update my ps4?
Assuming you download the latest version of the operating system, yes.
Can I use a 2tb SSD or is there a limit
You can
The max capacity for PS4 is 8 TB
What if you have everything in your online storage and just want to upgrade to a SSD?
Like, I backed up everything to my online storage and now my ps4 has just stopped working without a better hard drive
Does it log you out?
If you put in a new drive and re-install the operating system, yes. You will have to log back in.
Can u do this with a iPad ?
You should be able to, as long as you have an adapter that allows you to plug a thumb drive into your iPad. Just make sure you copy the right file into the right folder.
How do u do the fat 32 in a iPad tho
What if you just want to put a new harddrive in because your out of space and don't want to move stuff to a new harddrive
If you want to keep all your stuff on your stock drive, you can simply add a USB drive for additional storage.
If you want a new/larger drive and don’t need your old stuff, then follow the steps in this video and just ignore the saving/restoring steps.
@@FamilyGeekery so I can use two hard drives in the same PS4 if I swap them over
If you mean can you take the original out and store it in a shelf, then install a new one and get it loaded up with games? Then manually swap the whole disk when you want to play different games? Technically yes. But it sounded hdd like a pain, plus you’d have to keep both drives updated every time a new PS update comes out.
@@FamilyGeekery ok cool thank you
Can't we just reinstall all the games?
Yes, as long as you’ve saved any trophies and saves in the cloud. But you’ll still need to reinstall the operating system. Thanks for watching!
So you can use your cloud data? I actually sold my old base PS4 and got a slim model a year later and all of my games I bought off of PSN store was still there because I still had my PSN account.