While the PS4’s stock hard drive is 500GB, which actually means there will be 465GB available for standard devices, it appears that you’ll only be able to use 408GB of that system storage, with a picture posted to twitter showing 323GB available after approximately 85GB has been used.
So, just where has that extra 57GB got to? Could it be that the OS, when unpacked completely, partitions off 57GB of the hard drive space, for anything that might be required in the future? That does seem like a lot of space.
It’s not another game anyway, as the user posted a follow-up tweet showing that he only had three games installed, which amount to around 85GB after all.
Whatever the case, it appears as though you’ll only have around 400GB of space on your stock hard drive, so upgrading might be required sooner than you thought.
Tuffcub
I expect the MS OS to take up even more space
tonycawley
Isn’t there that pre loaded built in game? That must take up a fair few gig, you know the camera showcase game thing, whatever its called. This is fairly standard these days anyway, 500gb never really means that. Should be false advertising, don’t really get why it isn’t.
cam the man
It’s called the Playroom but I cannot see it taking up that much space.
Squashman22
Because its actually 500,000,000,000 bytes or something which they are allowed to advertise as 500GB but is actually only 465GB. So any one who isn’t clued up on computers will not know this and will expect the amount of space they think they are paying for. I do agree seems a bit of a d**k thing to do to consumers but in a marketing sense it is better. Mainly to confuse people but also because it sounds better.
cam the man
500GB is actually 536,870,912,000 bytes.
discomonkey
No 500GiB is 536,870,912,000 bytes
Squashman22
I never said 500GB is anything… I said 500billion bytes is 465.66GB
yd
Don’t start with that gibibyte nonsense. We had a perfectly sensible sounding name for things, even if 1024 was slightly off compared to the proper SI prefixes using 1000.
Then someone got greedy and tried to con us out of a bit of disk space. And now we’ve ended up with this gibi nonsense. When it was perfectly obvious what a gigabyte was supposed to be. But no, someone tried to take advantage of that and this is why we can’t have nice things.
It’s as annoying as when some idiot decided we were supposed to spell sulphur wrong. With an F!! No! It’s wrong.
Nocure-fd
I am a chemist by profession, and while I agree with the change to spelling sulfur with an “F” just seems wrong. Le Système international d’unités (the SI) have said that’s the way it needs to be done. If we don’t all do it, then we might end up in another situation where we blast an expensive satelite into the sun. So I will grudgingly change my ways.
As for PS4 HDD space. I’ll probably updrade it before I even power on the console, so hopefully I wont have too many problems with storage.
cc_star
Still doesn’t explain the drop from 465 to just over 400
cubehouse
Likely reserved OS space for in-built apps and possibly also buffer space for the video recording?
hol
That’s what I’m thinking too, would need enough room to act as a buffer for video capture.
DJ Judas
Guessing that’s space reserved for OS, future expansion, standby/resume dumping and that ever-present 15 minute recording buffer.
Sounds about right to me. I can certainly see myself replacing the disk in a year or so.
NotSmartEnough
Could be space reserved for unpacking PSN downloads prior to install.
Not a huge issue IMO: you buy any piece of consumer electronics branded as being such-and-such GB (phones, tablets, sky box), but the full capacity is rarely available to the user without a proportion being reserved for OS, etc.
mrfodder
The PS3 took 10% so not surprised.
DarkLord
Automatic game caching from blu-ray and video record buffer, simple as that, nice try thou,
tactical20
Was always gonna need upgrading. My worry is if there’s gonna be one big enough that’s compatible?
TSBonyman
Seems like a fair chunk of space, i’ll be upgrading that hdd sooner than i expected.