Yes. The ST2000LM015 is a 7mm 2.5-inch drive that fits every PS4 revision, and 2TB is the capacity most people should be buying rather than 1TB. It is shingled, and on a games console that is close to irrelevant.
| Drive | Form factor | Z-height | Fits a PS4? |
|---|---|---|---|
| ST1000LM048 | 2.5" | 7mm | Yes |
| ST2000LM015 | 2.5" | 7mm | Yes |
| ST4000LM024 | 2.5" | 15mm | No - too thick |
| ST1000DM010 | 3.5" | 26.1mm | No - wrong form factor |
| ST1000DM014 | 3.5" | 26.1mm | No - wrong form factor |
The PS4, PS4 Slim and PS4 Pro all take a 2.5-inch SATA drive of 9.5mm or less. A 15mm 2.5-inch drive does not fit, and neither does any 3.5-inch desktop drive.
The PS4 shipped with 500GB or 1TB depending on the revision, and a modern game install is routinely 50 to 100GB. The arithmetic is unforgiving: a 1TB upgrade from a 500GB stock drive buys you a handful of extra titles before you are managing space again, which is the problem you were trying to solve.
2TB is the point where most people stop thinking about it, and in the 2.5-inch 7mm format that fits a PS4 it is also close to the practical ceiling, the 4TB ST4000LM024 exists but is 15mm thick and does not fit the console.
The price gap between the 1TB and 2TB models is usually modest relative to the capacity, which makes this one of the clearer capacity-jump decisions in consumer storage.
The ST2000LM015 is shingled, per Seagate's May 2020 datasheet for the 2.5-inch BarraCuda line. That is worth knowing and it is not worth worrying about here.
Shingled recording overlaps data tracks like roof tiles to raise density. Reading is unaffected. Writing is affected when the drive has to modify data underneath an existing track, because the tracks laid over it may have to be rewritten too. That penalty is invisible for sequential work and severe for sustained random writing, which is what a rebuild or a resilver actually is.
A PS4 installs games as long sequential writes and then reads them. It does not rebuild an array, it does not resilver, and it does not generate the sustained random write pattern that exposes the penalty. The same drive in a NAS would be the wrong purchase; in this console the shingling is invisible.
The realistic expectation to set is that this is a capacity upgrade rather than a performance one. The PS4's stock drive was a 5400rpm mechanical drive and so is this, so games will load about as they did before, with a lot more of them installed.
Every PS4 revision takes a 2.5-inch SATA drive of 9.5mm or less. The ST2000LM015 is 7mm and fits with room to spare.
The trap in the same family is the ST4000LM024. It is a 2.5-inch BarraCuda, it is 4TB, and it is 15mm thick, which means it does not fit a PS4 and does not fit most laptops either. People buy it expecting the bigger version of the drive that worked and find it will not go in.
The other trap is the 3.5-inch BarraCuda family, which shares the brand name and the capacity numbers but is a desktop drive that cannot go in a console at all.
| Model | Capacity | Recording | Live price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ST2000LM015 Seagate BarraCuda 2.5 | 2TB | SMR | — | Not in stock |
| ST1000LM048 Seagate BarraCuda 2.5 | 1TB | SMR | — | Not in stock |
A dash under live price means we do not currently track that exact model in stock. The recording badge comes from the manufacturer document linked on each model's page.
Yes. All three PS4 revisions take a 2.5-inch SATA drive of 9.5mm or less, and this drive is 7mm. The installation is a single cover panel and one screw on the standard and Slim models.
SMR, per Seagate's May 2020 datasheet for the 2.5-inch BarraCuda line. On a console that is fine, because the workload is sequential installs and reads rather than the sustained random writing that exposes the shingling penalty.
No, and it would be misleading to suggest otherwise. This is a 5400rpm mechanical drive replacing a 5400rpm mechanical drive, so the change is capacity rather than speed. A 2.5-inch SATA SSD is the upgrade that changes load times, at several times the cost per terabyte.
Not in the internal bay, practically speaking. The 4TB 2.5-inch BarraCuda is 15mm thick and does not fit. Beyond 2TB internally, the route is external USB storage, which the PS4 supports for both storing and playing games.