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The Official Gaming Thread

I may be far behind the rest of you on this but as someone who watches movies and such on my PS4 and is a bit of a pack rat when it comes to data, I recently decided to pop out the existing hard drive on it and replace it with a bigger/faster one.

Anyways, I'm not someone who's particularly good with tinkering with electronics but I'd say that if anyone else is considering the same it was a ridiculously easy process. Took me about 10 minutes and the system is working great(although re-downloading the games was a pain).
 
Nik the Trik said:
I may be far behind the rest of you on this but as someone who watches movies and such on my PS4 and is a bit of a pack rat when it comes to data, I recently decided to pop out the existing hard drive on it and replace it with a bigger/faster one.

Anyways, I'm not someone who's particularly good with tinkering with electronics but I'd say that if anyone else is considering the same it was a ridiculously easy process. Took me about 10 minutes and the system is working great(although re-downloading the games was a pain).
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I've been seriously thinking about replacing the hard drive, too, and have been fighting the sense of technical intimidation to getting it done.  But everything I've heard about the process makes it sound pretty easy.  What hard drive did you go with?
 
Heroic Shrimp said:
Nik the Trik said:
I may be far behind the rest of you on this but as someone who watches movies and such on my PS4 and is a bit of a pack rat when it comes to data, I recently decided to pop out the existing hard drive on it and replace it with a bigger/faster one.

Anyways, I'm not someone who's particularly good with tinkering with electronics but I'd say that if anyone else is considering the same it was a ridiculously easy process. Took me about 10 minutes and the system is working great(although re-downloading the games was a pain).
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I've been seriously thinking about replacing the hard drive, too, and have been fighting the sense of technical intimidation to getting it done.  But everything I've heard about the process makes it sound pretty easy.  What hard drive did you go with?
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It's absurdly easy to do it.  You pop off the cover (it's the shinier black top piece), unscrewed a single screw (it has the playstation button logo on it).  Then you pop out the existing hard drive, unscrew the four screws on the side holding the hard drive in place and then remove it.  Put the new one in, put the four screws back and put it back in the slot. You screw in the playstation screw and put the black plastic piece back on.

The only thing you have to do is have a copy of the system to reinstall on a USB key.  You can download the file on this page (https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/system-updates/ps4/).  It's about 900MB in size. 

Also, if you are like me and still have a PS3, the 500GB hard drive is most likely bigger than what you have in your PS3 and you can swap that out and give yourself a bigger harddrive there too.  It was nice to have almost 500GB as an upgrade on the 120GB hard drive I had on my PS3.
 
L K said:
Also, if you are like me and still have a PS3, the 500GB hard drive is most likely bigger than what you have in your PS3 and you can swap that out and give yourself a bigger harddrive there too.  It was nice to have almost 500GB as an upgrade on the 120GB hard drive I had on my PS3.
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How easy is the swap on a PS3?
 
Nik the Trik said:
L K said:
Also, if you are like me and still have a PS3, the 500GB hard drive is most likely bigger than what you have in your PS3 and you can swap that out and give yourself a bigger harddrive there too.  It was nice to have almost 500GB as an upgrade on the 120GB hard drive I had on my PS3.
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How easy is the swap on a PS3?
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I have a PS3 slim and it was actually surprisingly easy. 
On the underside of the playstation there is a very small little panel that pops off.  There is a screw that you unscrew and then if you push the plastic piece forward it pops out.  The hard drive is right below the optical drive.  It honestly took me about the same time that it took to do the PS4.  It was also unnervingly dusty.
 
Patrick said:
Anyone know at what storage capacity you'd start noticing speed issues? Not sure what size of replacement HD to get.
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Size doesn't usually impact speed.  Where you get your biggest bang for buck is if you switch from a platter drive to an SSD.  If you want to get in to the terabytes, then cost wise you may have to stay with a platter drive.  If that's the case, then you want a 7200 RPM drive with SSD cache.

EDIT:  So exactly like the one that Nik posted.  The only way the one he posted would be faster is if it was a 7200 RPM drive.  However, the cache on the one he posted reduces the speed gain that you would see from the higher RPM rate.
 
Does anyone know of a way to fix the download speeds on their playstation?

I have Teksavvy internet and I get supposedly 25Mbps download speed and like most internet I usually seem to average around 15-20Mbps on my computer/phone.  On my PS4 though redownloading stuff after upgrading has been painful.  I'm lucky if I'm getting much over 1Mbps even though the connection speed test is suggesting I have a Download speed of 18.6Mbps on the Internet Connection test on the Playstation.
 
L K said:
Does anyone know of a way to fix the download speeds on their playstation?

I have Teksavvy internet and I get supposedly 25Mbps download speed and like most internet I usually seem to average around 15-20Mbps on my computer/phone.  On my PS4 though redownloading stuff after upgrading has been painful.  I'm lucky if I'm getting much over 1Mbps even though the connection speed test is suggesting I have a Download speed of 18.6Mbps on the Internet Connection test on the Playstation.
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I don't have a fix unfortunately but I will say that I experienced largely the same thing. So maybe it's a Playstation side issue?
 
Nik the Trik said:
I don't have a fix unfortunately but I will say that I experienced largely the same thing. So maybe it's a Playstation side issue?
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I can't speak for the PS4, but I definitely found that downloading stuff through the PSN on my PS3 was also painfully slow most of the time, while services like Netflix and such didn't suffer from the same issues.
 
I got a PS4 this year and was also disappointed in the download speeds from their network.  Torrents, Steam, Origin, Battle.net etc. have no problem maxing out 45 Mbps connection, PS stuff only goes at a fraction of the speed sadly it seems like Sony or someone is cheaping out on bandwidth somewhere.
 
For the network problem, you could try switching the DNS entries to see if that improves the speed.  Try the google dns servers:

Primary DNS:
8.8.8.8
Secondary DNS:
8.8.4.4

You may see an improvement.  I am wired, and I haven't noticed problem. 
 
The free PS Plus game for PS4 users this month, Broforce, is pretty good pick-up if anyone is interested. It's certainly not deep and the sense of humour is pretty stupid but it's a good time if you like 80's Action movies and old school side scrolling shooters.
 
Nik the Trik said:
The free PS Plus game for PS4 users this month, Broforce, is pretty good pick-up if anyone is interested. It's certainly not deep and the sense of humour is pretty stupid but it's a good time if you like 80's Action movies and old school side scrolling shooters.
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Thanks!
 
Significantly Insignificant said:
Should I get "No Man's Sky"?  Should I get it even if I don't need a second career?
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I don't think it's out yet. It sure looks impressive.
 
Nik the Trik said:
Significantly Insignificant said:
Should I get "No Man's Sky"?  Should I get it even if I don't need a second career?
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I don't think it's out yet. It sure looks impressive.
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It's not out until August...but I was trying to talk myself in to it or out of it before then.  I have three kids under the age of 10.  My time is limited.  My problem with some of these games is that the require more time than I have to play.  Currently I am still playing Fallout 4, which I got at Christmas.
 
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