PlayStation 4 is finally getting external hard drive support

There's a new update coming to the PS4.
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Tina Amini
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Playstation 4 disappointing you with its 500GB storage?

Sure, you could have upgraded your hard drive. Or, soon, you can shove your least-played games off to an external instead of banishing them to the cloud when you run out of space on your PS4.

The next update coming to the console will bring external hard drive support to the PlayStation 4. It's codenamed Sasuke, and is in beta as of today. You can connect an HDD that's up to 8TB in size.

Sony is also polishing up the dashboard's interface and notification system, adding 3D blu-ray VR support as well as letting you customize your dashboard with wallpapers, like the The Last Guardian look above.

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Tina Amini

Tina is the Games Editor for Mashable. She is a born and raised New Yorker. She received a degree in Media, Culture and Communication at New York University, where she also began her writing career. Tina has been editing and writing about video games for 8 years, working across various outlets including Complex Magazine and the former Gawker's Kotaku. She's an excellent first-person shooter player but favors stories above all. She also has the world's softest cat.

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