PS4 2TB Hard Drive upgrade: '2TB Seagate Spinpoint M9T' Thread.

antijoke · 28 Nov 2014 at 10:38

**** Very tempting, I only have like 100Gb free on my 500Gb drive.

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Bubo · 28 Nov 2014 at 15:37

as above

Plainsong · 28 Nov 2014 at 15:42

I never buy anything, in case at some point in the future, the price might go down.

Phone them?

Bubo · 28 Nov 2014 at 15:54

I'm not being overly serious. It's not the end of the world.

chaparral · 29 Nov 2014 at 19:23

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Psycho Sonny · 29 Nov 2014 at 19:26

What is the largest 7200rpm drive that will fit into a ps4?

chaparral · 29 Nov 2014 at 19:32

Psycho Sonny said:
What is the largest 7200rpm drive that will fit into a ps4?

The largest 2.5" 7200rpm drive I can find is only 1TB..

Maybe someone else can find or knows of a bigger one..

Psycho Sonny · 29 Nov 2014 at 20:13

Think I'll wait for a 16 or 32 gig ssd cache 500gb drive before upgrading my 8gig cache hybrid.

Can't really justify a ssd but loading times are beginning to peeve

Necroscope · 1 Dec 2014 at 18:59

Just as well I checked space I had left 120Gb managed to get it up to 150Gb have a few games to plat and play a few psn games ... After seeing TLoU going cheap on PSN and getting GTA V for Xmas going to take up 90Gb of space :eek:

not really leaving much room for the new year .... Is the Seagate the best way to go ... ** no mentioning of competitor pricing **

chaparral · 3 Dec 2014 at 20:17

Received my 2TB drive today...

Can I backup all my digital PS4 games onto a EXT USB harddrive first and then transfer them to the 2TB drive once it installed so I no need to download them again ?
(I.E GTA V was 50Gb and took 2 days to download and I really don't want to wait about a week for all my games to download again)

antijoke · 3 Dec 2014 at 20:46

Don't think so, enjoy downloading everything again.

Boomstick777 · 26 Mar 2015 at 10:28

So I did some drive swapsies, and now re-installing everything by re-downloading. Talking like 800GB's here.

Anyway today Sony release an FW update which allows you to copy all your data to external HDD and then put it all back on...

This would have been lovely yesterday !!

Noxia · 26 Mar 2015 at 10:30

Yeah saw this. Going to make my life easier when I eventually upgrade.

beachBOYken · 26 Mar 2015 at 10:34

Boomstick777 said:
So I did some drive swapsies, and now re-installing everything by re-downloading. Talking like 800GB's here.

Anyway today Sony release an FW update which allows you to copy all your data to external HDD and then put it all back on...

This would have been lovely yesterday !!

yeah very handy feature for any future hdd changes.

Can the transfer be done to a usb stick?

Im thinking about getting a 2tb down the line but when it comes to backing up I will only have a few games I will bother about such as bloodborne and maybe driveclub which are my only digital purchases.

Boomstick777 · 26 Mar 2015 at 10:38

Noxia said:
Yeah saw this. Going to make my life easier when I eventually upgrade.

Just typical that this wasn't around yesterday

beachBOYken said:
yeah very handy feature for any future hdd changes.

Can the transfer be done to a usb stick?

Im thinking about getting a 2tb down the line but when it comes to backing up I will only have a few games I will bother about such as bloodborne and maybe driveclub which are my only digital purchases.

Not sure about USB, I haven't tried. To busy re downloading all my stuff :rolleyes:

Want to get all this done in time for Borderlands pre load later ! 4 player Borderlands split screen awesomeness :cool:

beachBOYken · 26 Mar 2015 at 11:31

I have a 1tb sshd in mine at present, If I were to get one of these external 2tb drives would I be able to stick either the 1tb back in the casing or maybe the original stock drive and use it as a backup hdd (seen as we now have the feature)

Im also not sure if its possible to remove the 2tb drive without breaking the caseing its in?

thanks.

Boomstick777 · 26 Mar 2015 at 12:01

beachBOYken said:
I have a 1tb sshd in mine at present, If I were to get one of these external 2tb drives would I be able to stick either the 1tb back in the casing or maybe the original stock drive and use it as a backup hdd (seen as we now have the feature)

Im also not sure if its possible to remove the 2tb drive without breaking the caseing its in?

thanks.

Yeah it's really easy, the lid just pop off. You pull out the drive it's not attached to the casing so nothing gets broken, then un wrap the silver foil around the drive and unplug Sata / Power bracket. Then you can use all that for whatever else you want to put in. I put an old 500GB laptop drive in my empty case and 2TB in PS4 (Did have SSD). No idea where my original PS4 HDD is, I think I may have given it away

. Hope I don't ever need to RMA it

beachBOYken · 26 Mar 2015 at 12:04

Boomstick777 said:
Yeah it's really easy, the lid just pop off. You pull out the drive it's not attached to the casing so nothing gets broken, then un wrap the silver foil around the drive and unplug Sata / Power bracket. Then you can use all that for whatever else you want to put in. I put an old 500GB laptop drive in my empty case and 2TB in PS4 (Did have SSD). No idea where my original PS4 HDD is, I think I may have given it away . Hope I don't ever need to RMA it

Brilliant, what 2TB have you got?

Never mind lol realised your the op!

Cheers

Boomstick777 · 26 Mar 2015 at 12:07

beachBOYken said:
Brilliant, what 2TB have you got?

Never mind lol realised your the op!

Cheers

This one,

Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB USB 3.0 Portable 2.5 Inch External Hard Drive - Black

STDR2000200

You will find it a piece of cake, you can pick these up really cheap from time to time. Think mine was £59.99. For 2TB PS4 HDD that's pretty good imho. It's faster than stock drive, because of the platter size and newer design.

beachBOYken · 26 Mar 2015 at 12:12

OK thanks will check it out.