5TB Western Digital portable USB 3.0 HDD - $90

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Drive usually sells for $170

 

[Autobot8655]

awesome find

 

[dugington]

Not sure of this specific drive, but I'm through with WD portables.
Bought two within the last year. Both done.
Slightest bump in the road with those shits and it's over.

 

[knightmelodic]

Not sure of this specific drive, but I'm through with WD portables.
Bought two within the last year. Both done.
Slightest bump in the road with those shits and it's over.

Not my experience but sorry to hear it.

For a drive this big I wouldn't really consider it portable. That's way too much data to put at risk IMO.
I have a couple of these that I use as redundant backups.

 

[dugington]

Not my experience but sorry to hear it.

For a drive this big I wouldn't really consider it portable. That's way too much data to put at risk IMO.
I have a couple of these that I use as redundant backups.

That should've been my mindset at the time.

 

[cli-terminator]

Not my experience but sorry to hear it.

For a drive this big I wouldn't really consider it portable. That's way too much data to put at risk IMO.
I have a couple of these that I use as redundant backups.

I'm gonna use mine for my PS4 so it won't be traveling anywhere unless I'm going to someone's house who doesn't have a game I downloaded.

 

[knightmelodic]

I'm gonna use mine for my PS4 so it won't be traveling anywhere unless I'm going to someone's house who doesn't have a game I downloaded.

You know, that's a good idea. How do you do that? I'd like to have more space for a couple of games and to backup the games already there. I don't want to upgrade the HDD inside the PS4 because the PS5 is coming soon.

 

[cli-terminator]

You know, that's a good idea. How do you do that? I'd like to have more space for a couple of games and to backup the games already there. I don't want to upgrade the HDD inside the PS4 because the PS5 is coming soon.

Under settings and USB devices, you can format the HDD so it'd use the PS4 formatting and then you'll be able to save games there

 

[babydaddy]

Best buy gotta 12tb for 180 now

 

[CoTtOnMoUf]

I would normally jump right on this

but I have a EasyStore 4TB that just took

a shit on me a couple weeks ago.

It's a great deal but I don't need that

happening again.

 

[djpolo]

Not sure of this specific drive, but I'm through with WD portables.
Bought two within the last year. Both done.
Slightest bump in the road with those shits and it's over.

I got you beat. I have 6 Seagates. Never had an issue with WD. No more Seagates for sure.

 

[djpolo]

I'm gonna use mine for my PS4 so it won't be traveling anywhere unless I'm going to someone's house who doesn't have a game I downloaded.

Damn I thought u could only get a 2tb n a fo PS. Only 2 tb fits from what I read. School me bra

 

[cli-terminator]

Damn I thought u could only get a 2tb n a fo PS. Only 2 tb fits from what I read. School me bra

From what I understand recent updates allow the PS4 to recognize up to 8TB. Just had to be a USB 3.0 drive that can be formatted

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[4 Dimensional]

Man, y’all better be doing back ups.

 

[Mrfreddygoodbud]

Not sure of this specific drive, but I'm through with WD portables.
Bought two within the last year. Both done.
Slightest bump in the road with those shits and it's over.

you must be dropping them.. the only time they fuck up like that...is if I move to the laptop

table and someone accidently knocks it off.. I solved that problem by just velcroing that shit to the table.. problem solved. Id rather go external harddirves all day, then store my shit in the cloud...

 

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Drive usually sells for $170

Thanx …. copped two of them ...

I would normally jump right on this

but I have a EasyStore 4TB that just took

a shit on me a couple weeks ago.

It's a great deal but I don't need that

happening again.

The obvious solution being …. don't use easy store drives ….
Never even heard of them ….It sounds like some dollar store shit ....


.

 

[godofwine]

From what I understand recent updates allow the PS4 to recognize up to 8TB. Just had to be a USB 3.0 drive that can be formatted

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But you can only convert up to 2TB to FAT32. PS4 doesn't recognize the other format at all (I can't think of it offhand). Whatever the default format is for hard drives the PS3 won't recognize it

 

[cli-terminator]

But you can only convert up to 2TB to FAT32. PS4 doesn't recognize the other format at all (I can't think of it offhand). Whatever the default format is for hard drives the PS3 won't recognize it

PS4 uses exFat. Check the link I posted earlier direct from Sony

 

[cli-terminator]

Here's another link explaining drive formats & how to format for PS4

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[305]

Not sure of this specific drive, but I'm through with WD portables.
Bought two within the last year. Both done.
Slightest bump in the road with those shits and it's over.

ME to. the port always ends up reading funny

 

[Deezz]

Best buy gotta 12tb for 180 now

OK..... What individual needs that much space?! That has to be commercial.

 

[Deezz]

Man, y’all better be doing back ups.

RIGHT! You'd have to buy 2 just to back the other one up! All that porn, I mean Blu-Ray movies takes up a lot of space.

 

[babydaddy]

OK..... What individual needs that much space?! That has to be commercial.

depends. some ppl backup 4k movie, a good 4k rip is usually 50gb

 

[Deezz]

depends. some ppl backup 4k movie, a good 4k rip is usually 50gb

Damn....Didn't realize 4K movies that up that much space.

 

[4 Dimensional]

Damn....Didn't realize 4K movies that up that much space.

An uncompressed Blu-ray can be anywhere between 20 and 40 gigs. Most people can compress those down between 2 and 4 gigs.

I think uncompressed 4K films are 80 gigs plus.

When you compress them to lower sizes you lose quality.

 

[4 Dimensional]

OK..... What individual needs that much space?! That has to be commercial.

I have over 40 TB of hard drive space (different size externals). But that’s back ups for the back ups.

 

[djpolo]

From what I understand recent updates allow the PS4 to recognize up to 8TB. Just had to be a USB 3.0 drive that can be formatted

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[tallblacknyc]

OK..... What individual needs that much space?! That has to be commercial.

Videographer/photographer

 

[Deezz]

Videographer/photographer

Which is kind of like his/her business or could be a hobbyist. Either way, I guess I see a need for some to have that massive storage.

 

[trstar]

That much storage needs to be in a RAiD.
Too much to risk

 

[godofwine]

Can the PS4 read MKV files yet?

 

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Drive usually sells for $170

Thanks for the info. Just ordered one.

 

[MistaPhantastic]

I once had two 5Tb drives die on me within weeks of each other. I can't even fathom putting 12Tb on one drive without a double backup.

 

[praetor]

ALWAYS run a scan of the drive BEFORE you start dumping data on it. I use HDTUNE to scan any drive I buy for errors. It's free and the pro version has a 30 day free trial.

Also, if you buy a WD drive, you can use their in house WD Diagnostics to scan the drive.

It takes a long ass time to scan big ass drives, but I guarantee you that most people who gave certain drives bad reviews didn't scan them for errors prior to using them.

Portable simply refers to the fact that it draws all the power it needs from the USB port. Moving any disc while it's spinning could damage it no matter the brand.

If you can't afford two similar drives (1 for storage and 1 as a backup), imo you shouldn't buy large capacity drives.

 

[4 Dimensional]

ALWAYS run a scan of the drive BEFORE you start dumping data on it. I use HDTUNE to scan any drive I buy for errors. It's free and the pro version has a 30 day free trial.

Also, if you buy a WD drive, you can use their in house WD Diagnostics to scan the drive.

It takes a long ass time to scan big ass drives, but I guarantee you that most people who gave certain drives bad reviews didn't scan them for errors prior to using them.

Portable simply refers to the fact that it draws all the power it needs from the USB port. Moving any disc while it's spinning could damage it no matter the brand.

If you can't afford two similar drives (1 for storage and 1 as a backup), imo you shouldn't buy large capacity drives.

I agree with everything you said, especially the last part. The back up should probably be larger than the drive that you’re going to use.