PS4 won't let you install games on external hard drives

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[QUOTE="osirisx3"]

internal drives are cheaper anyways.

clyde46

God Damn Floods

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

[QUOTE="osirisx3"]

internal drives are cheaper anyways.

lostrib

If you replaced the internal, is it possible to clone the data and migrate it to a new drive?

Do you guys play a lot of multiplayer games? I doubt you would delete those quickly.:P

mitu123

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[QUOTE="mitu123"]You can get 1TB external hard drives for 70 some bucks on amazon...

clyde46

If you replaced the internal, is it possible to clone the data and migrate it to a new drive?

Yeah, that's what I mean.  

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="mitu123"]You can get 1TB external hard drives for 70 some bucks on amazon...

lostrib

God Damn Floods

internal drives are cheaper anyways.

osirisx3

Stop moaning. The internal drive is replacable. 1TB is not enough for a few games... even if they are 50GB a piece you can get 5 - 10 with the system software and what not on it. Then you will have to delete the game data. Not that big a deal, wont the ps4 let you play while installing?

I can see why they don't allow external drives, it would need extra testing and there is always the possibility of something going wrong and people blaming Sony and wasting their time. You will still be able to use externals for music and videos I would presume.

edwardecl

And yes they can be used for multimedia stuff.

[QUOTE="osirisx3"]

internal drives are cheaper anyways.

superclocked

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[QUOTE="clyde46"] I remember the days when I bought 1TB Samsung F3's for less than the price of a console game. clyde46

God Damn Floods

Well they've come down quite a bit from the flood prices.  But yeah, probably never that low.  Although it seems glory days of the F3 is over anyways since they got sold to seagate

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lostrib"]

God Damn Floods

lostrib

Well they've come down quite a bit from the flood prices.  But yeah, probably never that low.  Although it seems glory days of the F3 is over anyways since they got sold to seagate

[QUOTE="superclocked"][QUOTE="osirisx3"]

internal drives are cheaper anyways.

clyde46

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[QUOTE="Desmonic"]

Really? 500GB aren't enough? I doubt that by the first 3-4 years the regular X1 & PS4 users will have filled them. And even then 1TB 2.5 HDD's are cheap now, meaning that in 3-4 years time the higher capacity versions (1.5TB, 2TB, etc) will have come down in price and it's also likely the SSD solutions (of similar capacity) will be available for the regular mortal at a decent price. (Crucial's 1TB SSD costs around 600$ now...)

Edit: Even being limited to 9.5mm I still doubt  the 500GB-1TB won't be enough, especially if one buys most of his games on retail.

Desmonic

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

Do you guys play a lot of multiplayer games? I doubt you would delete those quickly.:P

-RPGamer-

[QUOTE="-RPGamer-"][QUOTE="mitu123"]

Do you guys play a lot of multiplayer games? I doubt you would delete those quickly.:P

mitu123

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[QUOTE="-RPGamer-"] No. I like to play campaigns and move on. Nonstop-Madness

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[QUOTE="clyde46"] You are limited to 1TB IIRC which is not enough for me. mitu123

There's a 2TB 2.5" drive from Western Digital, unless it's a hardware restriction by the PS4, which would make no sense at all.

12mm, 15mm, etc. don't work, only 9.5mm.

You honestly think a TB hdd is going to be all thats avaliable?  LMAO?

Its better then MS who forces you to install every game on a HDD

Of course not. Burn games to external HDD and than go and play them any where or sell them off. You would need some kinda always online Digital Rights Managment system.

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[QUOTE="Consternated"]

There's a 2TB 2.5" drive from Western Digital, unless it's a hardware restriction by the PS4, which would make no sense at all.

AM-Gamer

12mm, 15mm, etc. don't work, only 9.5mm.

You honestly think a TB hdd is going to be all thats avaliable?  LMAO?

Its better then MS who forces you to install every game on a HDD

And that sucks about MS.

TCHBO! :lol:

[QUOTE="lx_theo"]The PS4 can have the internal harddrive upgraded. Its really more matter of preference on which method you prefer, no?clyde46

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lx_theo"]The PS4 can have the internal harddrive upgraded. Its really more matter of preference on which method you prefer, no?YoshiYogurt

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lx_theo"]The PS4 can have the internal harddrive upgraded. Its really more matter of preference on which method you prefer, no?YoshiYogurt

You have 1TB of memory, thats more than enough.... Ratchet_Fan8

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lx_theo"]The PS4 can have the internal harddrive upgraded. Its really more matter of preference on which method you prefer, no?YoshiYogurt

that really depends on how big the games are in the next gen. .

[QUOTE="YoshiYogurt"][QUOTE="clyde46"] You are limited to 1TB IIRC which is not enough for me. mitu123

That's fine.

I've got about 50 games installed on a 750 GB drive. 

Game are getting bigger but they aren't getting that bigger.

Im sure Sony will release a proprietary 32gb hd for $299mems_1224

Since so many people seem to act like 1TB is confirmed, could someone please give me a link? I've looked and looked and looked, and I can't find anything saying this is confirmed. Plus since the PS3 only supported a 9.5mm drive also till you modded the HDD cradle or just installed it without the cradle, there are also many people out there who claim that they use SATA power and data cables so they can hook up 3.5" drives to the PS3, and claim it supports up to 1.5TB for an internal drive, and 2TB for an external drive. 

So considering that the PS3 definitely supports a 1TB drive, and possibly up to 1.5TB, I find it vary hard to believe that Sony limited the HDD support for the PS4 to only 1TB. Plus it's common knowledge that just about everything that takes 2.5" drives are running out of space, and I would bet that Sony is fully aware of this, and with new 1.5TB 9.5mm drives already available, it wouldn't surprise me if 2TB 12.5mm will be around vary shortly.

I would bet that the PS4 will use a HDD cradle just like the PS3, so I'm pretty sure it won't be hard to use a 12.5mm drive. What I really want to know, is if there will be any way to get a 15mm drive in a PS4, because I think 2.5-3TB 15mm drives are just around the corner.

Really though all this is nothing more then speculation since Sony hasn't confirmed anything yet, at least as far as I've seen.

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[QUOTE="YoshiYogurt"] WTF? How is that not enough. I have over 7500 songs and over 100 steam games and I've not even used up 500gigs.... How would you ever fill that on a console....YoshiYogurt

USB is slow as hell anyway.killzowned24

This is a very bad move seeing how Xbox One(and heck even Wii U) can do it. I guess we're stuck with 1TB internal hard drives, and I don't see that being enough when games get bigger in size. Not to mention for gamers who want to buy more games digitally like me.

So X1>PS4 in this area.

mitu123

Well thats unfortunate, I was planning on buying an external to use for both my PS4 and Xbox One (depending on how the Xbox One Cloud storage pans out).

1TB should be enough for me though

[QUOTE="mitu123"]

This is a very bad move seeing how Xbox One(and heck even Wii U) can do it. I guess we're stuck with 1TB internal hard drives, and I don't see that being enough when games get bigger in size. Not to mention for gamers who want to buy more games digitally like me.

So X1>PS4 in this area.

jsmoke03

[QUOTE="jsmoke03"][QUOTE="mitu123"]

This is a very bad move seeing how Xbox One(and heck even Wii U) can do it. I guess we're stuck with 1TB internal hard drives, and I don't see that being enough when games get bigger in size. Not to mention for gamers who want to buy more games digitally like me.

So X1>PS4 in this area.

superclocked

[QUOTE="clyde46"][QUOTE="lx_theo"]The PS4 can have the internal harddrive upgraded. Its really more matter of preference on which method you prefer, no?YoshiYogurt

aw another one , and they say wiiu is last gen , haha ,  

ps4 the list of things you can not do is just getting bigger and bigger

-can not play ps3 discs

-can not play music cds even though the prodecers can , 

- can not install games to the hard drive even the 360 does that,  

- but sony can and will shove manditory installs for every disk  you try to play, which fills up that measly 500 gig hard drive, 

-    oh now you cant play multiplayer for free - hmm 

-   you can not and i repeat you can not listen to your own music while playing a game   ps3 has some games that can do that and my original xbox also has an list of games you can ,  and 360 you do it with just about any game , 

so -hmm tchbo