The WiiU, the Xbox One, my cellphone, my laptop, my (shitty) PC, even the goddam Ouya--i can plug in additional memory at any moment. It's quick and painless.

Scenario A: Xbox One-- 500GB HDD isn't enough? Just plug in a 2 TB HDD and suddenly, you have 2500GB to play with. So easy, a baby could do it!

Scenario B: PlayStation 4-- 500GB HDD isn't enough?Back up all of your saves and certain content (Game DVR footage, PT, etc.  Remove your internal HDD. Replace it with the new HDD (we'll say 2TB). ). Toss that 500GB to the side because you can't use it on your PS4, anymore. Download your firmware from the internet and save it to a thumb drive or other USB device. Plug it into your PS4 and update the entire system. Re-enter all of your PlayStation information because you basically have a factory reset system. Then select "Restore PS4". Plug in your OTHER memory stick with your back up data. Let it transfer to your new HDD.  This can take a few minutes (I only backed up about 7gb of content) or a SEVERAL HOURS.Re-download anything you didn't back up from the PSN. Now, you have 2TB of memory (because, as I mentioned, you can no longer use that initial 500GB).

Now, which one sounds easier?

I just went through the second ordeal, yesterday. It got frustrating because I kept downloading Update 4.05 instead of update 4.05.

Update 4.05? That's the same number both times! Well, no shit! I didn't know there were two updates with the exact same number and the first one wasn't the right one!!

Tl:dr?

The PS4 Pro releases on November 10th. I already preordered it and it's going to be awesome. However, a TB isn't enough to hold all of the games I have. I buy mostly digital, these days so every time I delete, I have to download, again. I'm not looking forward to upgrading the memory of my Pro.

Agree 100%. It's very much the same process as the replacing the HD on a PS3, which I have done a few times, and the very reason I still haven't upgraded my PS4 HD.

I've run into that issue playing certain games on Xbox One. Especially Telltale games. They run like shit on an external HDD. I just go to the options menu, without even quitting the game, and select "Transfer to internal memory" and it goes off without a hitch.

I do admit that having everything in one package is much more sexy. With the other devices, you often don't have that option. Still, I'd like to be able to choose one or the other. Both have their benefits.

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Itd be wise from Sony to make this possible. Hell, They even could add some extra gb for data security (so no one interchanges hdds) 

Data reads from my external XBO drive are faster than from the internal.

I can't believe that in 2016 we still can't use external HDD

This is ridiculous

That would be soo great!

This option might enable a door for modders and piracy. Better give us SSD support. Just enable SATA3 in later PS4 models.

PS: Just checked. PS4 Pro has SATA 3.

This would be a welcome thing. Library sizes are getting out of control now with digital.

I always despised the idea that the only way to get a 2TB on a PS4 requires all that work and an additional purchase....preferably right when you get it.

Now Slim and Pro don't even have an option greater than 2TB...until some 3rd party designs some franken mod to allow 3.5" drives.

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