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by Fej 2085 days ago
The PS4 has one of my favorite little touches like this. Accessing the 2.5" bay on the original PS4 is done by sliding off the cover of one of the four quadrants. The HDD caddy is held down by one screw. Not sure about the Slim and Pro, but on the original, it's a Philips head screw, but not just any Philips head - it's wider than necessary so that they could etch their trademark four symbols on it.

This is a custom screw that 99.9% of users will never see (guessing at that number of course) but they put it in anyway. That must have been a lot of work.

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That's an improvement on the original fat PS3 that I well after its prime (2014 or so?). The screws on the original HDD caddy were in so tight that even with the correct driver and OK technique I managed to strip them. In the end I threw the caddy out and made some shims out of cardboard to stop my replacement SSD bouncing around too much, it worked great for a few years until it succumbed to the YLOD. My original fatty PS2 still works great!