

In fact, if you don’t have a place to store your media (a small wall shelf or even something specifically designed by an OEM manufacturer) just pick up a few small sealable square plastic containers. At the same time, returning a disk to its case means that it won’t accumulate dust on its surface, which is obviously a good thing. Always make it a point to place them back into their protective cases and perhaps onto a shelf where they can be easily accessed yet remain out of the clutches of small children and pets. Similarly, you really shouldn’t just leave game disks lying around freely.


So, take this as a sign to either take steps to improve the condition of your game space and/or find a better place to store them. So, if you live in a rat-infested hell hole, encountering some dirty or damaged disks is going to be a given at some point in time (and perhaps the least of your worries). As they say – prevention is the best cure. Here are some handy tips for protecting yours…įirst and foremost one must consider the environment where they store their disks (as well as their console).

With the costs of games riding high and the world’s economic woes weighing down on most people these days, taking care of your PS4 disks isn’t just a good idea – it’s absolutely essential. In either scenario the faulty variable is dirty media, which when taken to the extreme results in physical damage thus rendering it unusable. If your PS4 is randomly freezing and switching itself off when playing a particular game, the chances are you simply need to clean the disc. Well, there is something that’s actually worse than that, of course – a scratched disk. There’s nothing more annoying to a gamer than popping a disk in your console only to discover that there’s some reading error preventing it from loading or installing.
