PS4 external drives

[GoFigureItOut]

Greetings, everyone! It's been a very long time since I made a post. Its mostly due to having bad luck with desktops. I had four of them die on me within three years

Anyways, my question is about PS4 and playing games from an external HDD. Is it possible to use a different drive? Right now, I am currently using a 2 TB Western Digital My Passport. Some games perform very poorly! Far Cry 6 stops for about a 5-10 secs, then start going again. I have a 240 GB SSD that I wanted to test the game on. Is it as simple as unplugging the old drive and plug up the new one? I don't know if it would cause some type of issue being on two different drives.

Thanks for reading. Be well!

 

[Ruru]

Should work just fine. I don't have any experience with PS4, but AFAIK it should just work straight away.

 

[elghinnarisa]

Just remember to safely remove the external drive in the settings before unplugging it. If you don't the playstation will complain loudly about it. Other than that, its just unplug the old, plug in the new and install the games on that after the general external storage setup.

Using extended storage | PlayStation®4 User's Guide

PlayStation®4 Official User's Guide. Explains how to use the PS4™ system.

manuals.playstation.net

 

[GoFigureItOut]

Just remember to safely remove the external drive in the settings before unplugging it. If you don't the playstation will complain loudly about it. Other than that, its just unplug the old, plug in the new and install the games on that after the general external storage setup.

Using extended storage | PlayStation®4 User's Guide

PlayStation®4 Official User's Guide. Explains how to use the PS4™ system.

manuals.playstation.net

Thanks! I forgot the PS4 had the option to eject drives. I was turning off the PS4 then swapping them