Customer Reviews

HGST Travelstar 5K1500 1.5TB 2.5-Inch Mobile 5400 RPM 9.5mm Internal Bare Hard Disk Drive 0J28001

Put this thing into my PS4 and it is splendid!
It's the biggest that can fit in there(until Seagate's new 2tb laptop HDD is released) and there is less noise than the stock Hard Drive the PS4 had!

Any other PS4 owners shopping for a new drive should get this! Will last longer than having an SSD in the system!

If you're someone like me and wants to upgrade their PlayStation 4 from its 500GB hard drive to something more spacious this drive is a good choice. I looked around the Internet this was the best price going (at the time of writing this the price was $124). With PlayStation 4 games weighing in at near 30GB+ for a lot of games and hard drive the size will eventually be a must upgrade. And if you're interested in upgrading your PlayStation hard drive it's a pretty straightforward process.

UPGRADING YOUR PS4 TAKE LESS THAN 30 minutes - You need to download the firmware from Sony*.
Step 1: remove the gloss section of your PS4. It's the part above the Blu-Ray slot.
Step 2: Remove the 500gb drive (requires 1 screw to be removed) Unscrew the 4 screws holding the drive in the cage.
Step 3: Put the PS4 back together.
Step 4: Insert your usb flash drive into the PS4 usb slot.
Step 5: Press and hold the power button on the PS4 for 8-10 seconds.
Step 6: Choose the bottom selection (I believe it's number 10) Reinstall firmware.
Step 7: That's it you are done only about 30 minutes and done.

*One thing you need if you're replacing a hard drive on the PlayStation is the latest firmware update from Sony's website and you need a 1 GB plus thumb drive formatted in fat32. And you just set up your thumb drive with a folder called PS4 an inside that folder another one called UPDATE. Then inside the update folder you place the firmware.

And that's it super easy to do takes no time in this drive efficiently doubles your storage space and drastically increases your load speed for games.

Thanks for reading if you have a questions just ask them.

Here are the steps for the PlayStation 3

1. Unscrew the drive cover
2. Pull out the old hard drive
3. Remove the drive from the drive bracket and insert your new hard drive.
4. Put it back into your PlayStation and put the screw in place.
5. Install the operating system from a flash or USB hard drive.

Now you will need to get the PlayStation operating system from Sony before you attempt a hard drive replacement but it's pretty simple and straightforward and one of the best selling points of the Sony PlayStation.

Thanks reading

PS personally I went with a 1TB 72000rpm drive in my PS4.

I am using this for the Playstation 4. Easy install and works great. Remember to download the full OS from Sony's website and put it on a thin flash drive (to fit between the layered system). Load times even for 5400 RPM is incredibly quick. Much faster than disc.

February 19, 2014 - This is just a follow up to my review. Having played BF4 and many launch games extensively, I can safely say this was a great purchase. No failures, load times are still great and I have noticed 0 issues with this model. If you own a PS4 I can't recommend it enough.

This drive is perfect for my PS4, given the size limitations. I was able to triple my hard drive capacity for a little over $100, and the new space should allow me to go much longer before deciding which game installs to delete. For people shopping for hard drives for the PS4, keep this in mind: the hard drive is the same company and the same RPM that comes with the PS4, and I'm a doubter when it comes to cost/value of putting a solid state drive or a drive with a faster RPM in my PS4. If you're looking for a serviceable drive with much more space for your PS4, I'd definitely recommend this one.

Works great. Installed it into my MacBook Pro to replace the factory 320GB drive and it's running fine. Install was easy and no problems encountered. It's nice to have a 1.5TB in my laptop. I wasn't too sure on the brand name but it's been going great for everything I use it for from live video/audio recording to daily use for email & web. I liked the price too!

Saw all the good reviews for this Hard Drive and thought I'd order me one for my PS4 and its just as good as these reviews indicate. Its easy to install and after resetting the system you get 1.314 TB of free space! This hard drive DOES run quieter and doesn't produce any more heat than the stock drive (which is actually the same brand only 1/3 the space) so if you're looking for that extra space and don't wanna spend hundreds on a SSD this is the perfect option! PS4 FTW

I have a System76 Lemur Ultra Thin (lemu4) notebook PC and I installed Lubuntu 13.04 64 bit GNU/Linux on this new Hitachi Travelstar 5K1500 laptop hard disk drive. It works just like a conventional 5,400 RPM laptop hard disk drive. It gives me up to 1.50 terabytes of available storage capacity. I needed this to replace a Crucial m4 SATA-3 128.00 gigabyte solid state disk. Now, I can store my entire media library with several hundreds of gigabytes of available disk space left over. It's faster than my Toshiba 1 terabyte 5,400 RPM hard disk drive which is only SATA-2 with 8 MB of cache. So far, it seems to be reliable and it's a tremendous advantage to have a GNU/Linux laptop with 1.50 terabytes of storage capacity. I would recommend it to others thinking about upgrading their older notebook PCs who are looking for the highest capacity laptop hard disk drive currently available. You'll need a laptop with at least a single drive bay that can fit the standard 2.5" 9.5 mm laptop hard disk drive. This won't work with Intel Ultrabooks that require the 7 mm laptop disk drives so do be sure to check your PC specifications. It would work well with almost any desktop operating system. It's not as fast as a 7,200 RPM laptop hard disk drive, but those types of disk drives are being phased out of the market gradually. A 5,400 RPM hard disk drive is a good choice if you want to conserve on your laptop's battery life and this Hitachi Travelstar 5K1500 consumes low energy while in usage. I probably extended my battery life by another 12 minutes.

I purchased this hard drive for my PS4 because of its size, HGST's reliability, and HGST's 3 year warranty. The hard drive has exceeded my expectations. It even seems faster than the hard drive that is in the PS4. I was actually debating between this one and a Samsung 2tb hard drive (made by Seagate). What made me decided on purchasing this hard drive vs. the other was the fact that recently published data show that HGST's hard drives are very reliable. With the current PS4 Operating system installed (as of 1/27/2014 or ps4 operating system 1.52), the hard drive has about 1,315 GB of free space for the user to install games and content. I would like to add that if you decide to get this hard drive, make sure that you download the correct PS4 file that contains the operating system instead of the update only. In other words, one file has about 300mb (update), while the correct file has about 800mb (operating system). You only need the 800mb file.

i just bought this for my ps4 and is working perfect, if your are looking for hdd for your ps4 this is it ;)

very effective very large capacity 1.5 TB for my PS3 games downloaded from PSN .IF it will fit inside PS4 i will buy another one