I have been powering on/off my ps4 more often than normal the past few weeks; 30 minutes here, an hour there. In the past couple of days, I have been noticing some sluggishness with my ps4's load time when it boots up or when going through the app.
Is it safe for the system to be constantly powered on/off, or does this wear down the internal components?
Best Answer
Assuming you actually shut the PS4 down properly, and don't just cut the power, you're fine. Modern electronics won't be adversely affected.
In regards to hard booting, it isn't safe, but it also doesn't wear anything down. The main risk of hard booting is data corruption caused by a hard drive losing power in the middle of a write operation. This is very rare, and virtually everything you'd use today has the ability to detect and correct corruption when (or indeed if) it does happen. Unless critical operating files were being written, everything will probably be fine. There is a(n exceedingly small) chance the power failure will cause the head will physically damage either itself or the disk platter, but I don't know if the OS for a PS4 is stored on the mechanical harddrive or on flash somewhere.
The other vanishingly small risk is the sudden power loss causing a power surge in the motherboard and frying circuitry, which would brick the system. I've seen this happen once in 9 years of tech support.
In closing, you are probably fine, as long as you aren't hard booting.