the drives i bought was the 4 terabyte toshiba x300 , the hard drives are great i have several of these same drives , they are perfect size , performance vs price , 7200 rpm large size
i have 2 ps4s ( very first model and second model ps4s og ps4s ) that have 6 terabytes tochiba x300 in both of them with these same drives INTERNAL
( links to all products i used on amazon for my ps4s at the bottom of review )
you get esata to sata cable and plug in the sata part of the cable into the internal ps4 port
route the cableout the front of the hard drive cage over the cage route the cable to the back of the ps4 and out the coner vent ,
use electric tape and tape the cable down firmly , i used alotta tape here and it came out perfect nice and tight
, cut the corner and second vent next to it to create one big vent and route the cable out that vent , then put hard drive cover on , the hardest part of this , is getting the sata cable onto the sata port of the ps4 , my very first time on both my ps4s i got it first time with needle nose pliers
mine has been perfect ever since , however my son at 12 years old was not as careful and yanked his sata cable out somehow , upon trying to put sata cable back on i could not and wound up cutting his cage just so i could get the cable on wich i did and after that its worked fine , this mod to the ps4 works perfect but use common sense and do not yank the sata cable on the back , really i have no clue how he even did that as i had it done perfect so it could not move
now you have a ps4 with a sata cable coming out the back , now go on amazon and buy the rosewill external hard drive housing with esata port , it also has a fan on top a circle vent and on the front has blue led light , like the whole front of this housing lights up blue ( looks really good ontop the ps4 ) its always on amazon i think i paid 30 bucks for it search rosewill external hard drive housing esata and you will find it
take your x300 Toshiba hard drive and put it inside the housing , then plug esata part of the sata to esata cable into the back of the external housing ,
sit the external housing on top of your ps4 on the side that the hard drive bay is ,
now you have a ps4 with 6 terabytes of internal storage
i never use rest mode , im sure you can but i never use it so i do not even know if it works
every time you shut off your psd4 you must shut off your hard drive ( ON OFF WITH ON THE EXTERNAL HOUSING power switch )
if you leave the hard drive external housing on after you shut off your ps4 when you come back if you turn on your ps4 it will show black screen , this is because you left the hard drive on with no source and the hard drive went into hibernation state
so to fix this plug in controller turn off ps4 , or just hit the power button and turn off ps4 , then turn on the hard drive then turn on ps4
every time you must turn hard drive on first then ps4 , after a few times of getting a black screen that says ps4 can not detect hard drive and shutting off your ps4 then turning on the hard drive then turning on the ps4 and seeing all is good , after a few times of this you get used to it and it is a none issue
i did this before the external update that gave everyone the ability to use external hard drives on ps4 , but i still think this uis the best way to go because now you can also get external storage and eventually have way over 6 terabytes and also several drives all because you got a massive internal storage
this drive i am buying i am buying three 4 terabyte x300 Toshiba for 3 different gaming computers as now we went to PC and will in the future only use our ps4s for Sony exclusives ( they are still tho both filled with 6 terabytes of games on both of them from before we went to PC gaming )
the benefit to this is massive storage , i can not explain how awesome it is to turn on your ps4 and have 6 terabytes of games ready to play , i am in the process of doing the same but on a much larger scale to all three of my family's gaming computers with 20 terabytes of games on each PC , and i will be doing it all with these Toshiba x300 drives because the cost per performance and size is perfect
these drives are perfect i gave them 5 stars because the drives are perfect price for what your getting and they are 7200 rpm , these are really all you need for gaming on PC or console
these drives where not shipped very well tho , i did not take a star off because they are great drives and its not Toshiba fault , its i think dells fault , as amazon says on the ship order tab that they where shipped by dell even tho i bought them from amazon
( newegg sells these same drives when i bought them from newegg in the past as i have many of these same drives they where very well packaged , i purchased here on amazon because i was already buying other things this time )
they where not damaged in any way , but they where packed with no bubble anything no protection in shipping just three hard drives thrown into a box
they could of easily bounced around and got damaged , i have worked warehouses my whole life and not one place i have ever worked at would accept that type of job performance , whoever packages and picked my order obviously did not care weather the product reached its destination safely
luckily they did reach me safely undamaged , the outside box was undamaged and the contents inside the three hard drives where undamaged , but it was packages with no regard for customers merchandise , they basically put 6 inches tall of product into a 10 inch tall box with nothing to pad it nothing to make sure it stays safe during shipping , whoever picked my order did not care
i have read comments on newegg and here on amazon that Toshiba warranty , like if the drive messes up and you need a replacement , they give you a choice of gift card ( value you paid i am assuming ) or replacement and usually they do not have a replacement to give you so they give you gift card , i have not had to go thru this yet as all my drives are in perfect working order , but i am mentioning it because it sounds like a huge hassle to deal with as others have said , i read a comment where the guy did not get reimbursed till like 6 weeks later , that would irritate me bad , luckily i have not had to deal with that , out of 6 drives all are working fine , i still have 2 i have not installed yet , imma install them tomorrow on my PC and my wife's PC
this the housing i used on both ps4s https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KGNXTE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
then just get a sata to esata cable https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002P6W8E8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
and biggest size x300 7200 rpm Toshiba drive you can afford i got the 6 terabyte for both ps4s https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B013JPKUU2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
| Hard Drive | 4 TB Mechanical Hard Disk |
|---|---|
| Number of USB 2.0 Ports | 1 |
