Will a HD duplicator clone my PS4 HD?

[Oyeve]

I recentely purchased a used PS4 with a 1TB spinny drive. It's already set up with my info and some games. It's slow as molasses and I wanna put in a 1TB ssd. I have a disc duplicator caddy device that will clone any SATA drive to another SATA drive of equal or greater size. So, this should work yes? Or does Sony have some firmware etched into their drives?

 

[cmdrdredd]

The drive is encrypted for the specific console. You have to initialize the drive on the console you are going to use it on.

You would have to backup the drive first via USB then transfer it back to the new drive once you've initialized it with the latest firmware installed.

 

[HOOfan 1]

right, the best way to replace the drive is to back it up on an external drive, then go to Sony's website and download the OS onto a USB drive and load it up on the new HDD, and once you have set up the new HDD, restore from your backup on the external drive.


I'm afraid an SSD really won't increase the speed that much....IMO not enough to be worth the cost of a 1TB SSD. The older PS4s only use SATA 2.0

Digital Foundry has done tests using SSDs I guess if you are willing to spend the $200+ on a 1TB SSD to shave 7-10 seconds off of load time, it may be worth it to you.

 

[Oyeve]

Thanks for the info guys. I guess it's not really worth it.