Using Backup Storageīeing able to use your external hard drive as an extended storage simply cannot take the place of the backup option, as both options have their own purposes. All of that and more in our article: How to Format External HDD for PS4 as Extended Storage, and in this article, we’re going to do a similar thing. We have addressed earlier the Extended Storage option in detail, laying out the major advantages and disadvantages, and how to format and use it the right way. (It means that with an external HDD add-on you can now expand the system storage and have the ability to store/install your games and applications externally and play them just like you do with the internal hard drive).
Since the first release of PS4, a wide variety of PS4 users were complaining of their inability to use an external hard drive on their PS4 console even for a backup purpose until the release of firmware update 2.5 that allowed the usage of a USB storage device for backup/archive only, then later, with version 4.5, users were enabled to use their external hard drive as a storage extension to the system storage.
