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PS4 News       Thread starter PSXHAX       Start date Feb 8, 2017 at 6:51 AM       17      
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If you're planning to install an external PS4 HDD with PS4 4.50 Firmware, Sony currently is restricting it to only one external hard disk drive according to Sasuke Beta testers. o_O

The message prompt you'll receive states the following when trying another external PS4 HDD:

You are already using a different extended storage device. You can only use one extended storage device at a time. Do you want to switch to this extended storage device?

To quote from JustPushStart.com on their findings of this PS4 System Software 4.50 Beta 2 limitation:

"Upon checking if I can use my other hard drive, I was saddened to see that I was only limited to use only one hard drive. Yes, it’s a nice feature to be able to finally use an external hard drive as alternative to expanding my storage, but I was hoping it would be like the Xbox One where I could use multiple hard drives. The more the better right?

That being said, the features introduced in the PS4 4.50 firmware is still in beta. Hopefully when the official firmware releases in a few months/weeks, it will introduce more features and remove the limitation of being able to only use 1 hard drive at a time."
Sony Restricting PS4 4.50 Firmware to 1 External Hard Disk Drive.jpg
 

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I'm not surprised.... You can only have one machine as your primary (no fix) so why would an external HDD be any different? I'm assuming this is an effort to prevent game sharing.
 
Opinion or fact ?

Fact - I tried it with a USB 3.0 hub and the ps4 said it was unable to use it. I can't remember exactly what it said but it gave me 3 possible options why. One of the options was, it needs to be directly connected to the ps4. After I removed the hub the same HDD worked fine.
 
Last i checked (10+ years ago) You could change the volume serial of fat drives on the fly, while ntfs required a restart to take effect. Sony still using fat32 file system?
i heard something that they still use it for usb, not sure, tho, could be having support for ntfs nowadays
 
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