This short guide will help those who still haven’t replaced HDD with SSD and are noticing the routine UI pinging or FPS drops in games. Also these recommendations will work for PS3 and PS5. Let’s get started!

First of all, the console will suffer from the use of HDD in it and will accordingly as any device will slow down as you install and uninstall games, because there will be fragmentation of the disk. Also do not forget that the console automatically writes video of your gameplay, this process can not be stopped. To perform optimization work – you need to enter safe mode of the PS4 console.

To begin with, we turn off the console. After that, press the power button on the console until the second beep (when you press it, we will hear the first beep and after a few seconds we will hear the second beep).

After that, connect your gamepad to the console using a micro-USB cable and press the PS button. Next, the safe mode menu will open where we need to select “Reconstruct Database” option

The optimization process will start, namely cache cleaning, defragmentation and restructuring of the console database. It can take from a few minutes to a few hours. After this procedure, the console will restart and the performance increase will be visible to the naked eye.