My first PS4 came in mid-2016, it was the Uncharted 4 Limited Edition 500GB HDD console and coinciding with the final release of Nathan Drake’s adventurous saga. I was excited and proud to lay my hands on it not only because it was my first PlayStation 4 console but it represented the ethos of the Uncharted series, a gaming experience which I had always loved and still love to this day! It’s nostalgic in some sense since I picked up this game for the first time on my PS3 in the last decade.
The Background
Despite the odds, in which I wrote a Reddit post on my ordeal a long time ago, to my utter shock, I recently ran out of disk space! I received a notification that the system was unable to download a crucial update of ‘Shadow of Tomb Raider’ to lack of HD space and I hate deleting my games lest I want to return to it in the future. However, it was shocking also because I never realised in the 2 years since owning this console that I might have played a lot many games! Then considering my older PS3 lasted out its life on a mere 120 GB without having to delete a single game, I think I might have grossly misjudged the size of PS4 games which I learned are normally somewhere between 30-40 gigs.
Since I have loved building Legos I have zero hesitation in tinkering with electronics, so I decided to upgrade the PS4 HDD and get myself some room for gaming. It did some reading to understand the technicalities and it turned out to be a simple 30-40 minute job, while the best part is that Sony does not consider an HDD upgrade as a violation of their product warranty terms. So I thought it best to leave some learning from my experience here for the sake of the future.
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