One of the features that PlayStation owners have asking about for years is the ability to expand their console storage with an external USB drive. Now, with the upcoming System Software 4.5, that feature has finally become a reality.

It’s been stated that the external drive can be up to 8TB, so we ordered the cheapest drive that we could find, the cheapest that “felt comfortable” for this use that is. At $209, the Dollar per Gigabyte is quite affordable and it’s externally powered as well which keeps from drawing power from your PS4.

Here are the 4 and 8 Terabyte versions of the drive that we recommend, and for this test we obviously had to take it to the limit, so we’re testing the 8TB drive.

Recommended 8TB Drive

Recommended 4TB Drive

The tests were performed on a PlayStation 4 Pro with a 2TB drive installed internally. The toughest part of this whole process was actually finding which menu had the option to set the drive up for use. Once I found it, the entire process took all of five minutes.

– In the PS4 Settings menu, go to “Devices” and then to “USB Storage Devices”



– You’ll see the new drive listed, so select it. On the next screen, click on “Format as Extended Storage”



– Select “Next”



– Select “Format” *For the 8TB drive, formatting took less than five minutes*



– Click “OK”



– Tada!



Here’s what I’ve learned so far about what you can and can’t do with this additional storage: