Consola - Hard Disk

Guide with all the necessary steps to change the hard drive of the Sony PlayStation 4 yourself.

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For this tutorial you will need the following spared parts and tools

Tutorial: Step by step

Step 1 PlayStation 4.

Technical characteristics:
CPU AMD semi-custom
No. cores 8
Freq. CPU 1,66 GHz.
GPU AMD 7000 Series
GPU code name Liverpool
GPU Arq GCN
Freq. GPU 800
OpenCL processors 1152
TFLOPS 1,84
RAM 8 GB GDDR5
Freq. RAM 5,500 MHz.
RAM bandwidth 176 GB / s
Others Wifi 802.11n, Ethernet, Blu-Ray, Bluetooth 2.1 + EDR, USB 3.0
Dimensions 275 × 305 × 53 mm
Weight 2.8 kg.

Before starting, turn off and disconnect the console.

Step 2 Hard Disk

Remove the adhesive that covers the Torx screw that will give us access to the hard disk.

Step 3

To access the hard disk, it is only necessary to remove the corresponding part of the casing.

To do this, push it with your fingers as shown in the images.

Step 4

Remove the screw that holds the hard drive tray.

Step 5

Gently pull the disc tray to remove it.

Step 6

The disc is attached to the tray by 4 Phillips screws, located on both sides.

Step 7

Finally replace the hard drive.

You can replace the hard disk with one of more capacity, to obtain more space for your games, videos, photos, ... or even for one of more speed (SSD) and thus reduce the loading time.

Video Tutorial summary

In this video you can watch a quick summary of the tutorial, but we recommend to follow the complete tutorial, with its explanations and detailed images.
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