Would I Be Able To Reformat A Drive That Was Used In A PS4?

[That_PC_Kid]

Hello, I was just wondering if you could reformat a HDD or SSHD that was used in a PS4 to work on a PC. Also, how would you go about doing that? I haven't tried anything yet as I was wondering if it were possible to do.

[Ryujin2003]

24 minutes ago, That_PC_Kid said:

Hello, I was just wondering if you could reformat a HDD or SSHD that was used in a PS4 to work on a PC. Also, how would you go about doing that? I haven't tried anything yet as I was wondering if it were possible to do.

Yes, a hard drive is a hard drive. Doesn't matter if it's PC, Mac, PS4, or xBox.

[DexterSmythe]

14 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Well... It could use a difference interface than SATA (remember IDE?)

PS4s use SATA.

[DexterSmythe]

58 minutes ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

I know, just that the "a hard drive is a hard drive" logic doesn't always work

True

[Ryujin2003]

8 hours ago, wrathoftheturkey said:

Well... It could use a difference interface than SATA (remember IDE?)

Yup, got me. People don't generally use those anymore, but yes I still have clients with their old XPATH and Vista machines with IDE. Ancient.

 

But I didn't take that into consideration because any new HDD/SSD will mainly have SATA. But, you can also get NVMe, M.2, and whatever else Apple calls their proprietary interfaces.