Best 2TB hard drive upgrade for ps4?
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$90-100 is about what to expect to pay for a 2TB hard drive. I recommend buying Western Digital, preferably anything Black or higher so the spindle speed won't affect the loading times of the games. 7200 is 25% faster than 5400, after all. Not many suggestions other than that.
Had a Seagate, drive developed errors. My laptop came prepackaged with a Seagate, and it too now has files that I can't erase without going in and removing their specific key classes and values from my system. My Toshiba drive died after five years of use. Had a Hitachi 5400 rpm on my Xbox that was taken out of an official Microsoft drive enclosure, but the load times were awful and caused lots of freezing. BUT, I have 6 WD externals and 2 internals, and they all run extremely well. My oldest WD external is 640 GB and is about 8 years old. I used it to stream music when I was at college. It's been dropped a number of times, usually while it's playing something. Recently transferred my music to a larger drive, and now I use it as an external drive for my 360. It still works flawlessly and runs all of my games. Can't beat WD.
Had a Seagate, drive developed errors. My laptop came prepackaged with a Seagate, and it too now has files that I can't erase without going in and removing their specific key classes and values from my system. My Toshiba drive died after five years of use. Had a Hitachi 5400 rpm on my Xbox that was taken out of an official Microsoft drive enclosure, but the load times were awful and caused lots of freezing. BUT, I have 6 WD externals and 2 internals, and they all run extremely well. My oldest WD external is 640 GB and is about 8 years old. I used it to stream music when I was at college. It's been dropped a number of times, usually while it's playing something. Recently transferred my music to a larger drive, and now I use it as an external drive for my 360. It still works flawlessly and runs all of my games. Can't beat WD.
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For a PS4 2TB HDD upgrade, you can only go with an internal drive and not an external like you can on a XB1 or X360. The only option you have for a PS4 in a 2.5" wide, 9.5mm high drive is the Samsung SpinPoint M9:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178627
Any of the other drives that are 2TB in size from other vendors are larger than 9.5mm high, such as the WD 2TB Green, which is 15mm high.
It routinely goes on sale for $100 at NewEgg multiple times through the year. If you purchase it from a 3rd party vendor on Amazon or from eBay, you take a chance on the drive being a pull from a Seagate 2TB external hard drive. If it's a drive pull, the drive from inside the external drive may not have any warranty without its external enclosure. If you don't care about the 2 year warranty on the drive, you can buy one from a third party vendor or buy the corresponding Seagate external drive and pull it yourself.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178627
Any of the other drives that are 2TB in size from other vendors are larger than 9.5mm high, such as the WD 2TB Green, which is 15mm high.
It routinely goes on sale for $100 at NewEgg multiple times through the year. If you purchase it from a 3rd party vendor on Amazon or from eBay, you take a chance on the drive being a pull from a Seagate 2TB external hard drive. If it's a drive pull, the drive from inside the external drive may not have any warranty without its external enclosure. If you don't care about the 2 year warranty on the drive, you can buy one from a third party vendor or buy the corresponding Seagate external drive and pull it yourself.
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As someone who has been in IT awhile, I know everyone swears by Brand X and craps on Brand Y, but I've seen every brand of drives under the sun crap out. I think manufacturers have good and bad runs. It just happens.
That said, I went a little different with my PS4. Like a lot of people on line, I got this Seagate external and removed the drive for my PS4. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-backup-plus-2tb-external-usb-3-0-2-0-portable-hard-drive-black/2944503.p?id=1219083979672&skuId=2944503
Now, you're voiding all kinds of warranties there but iirc, it was on sale when I got it and cheaper than any bare HDD I could find at the time. Consider this recommendation a big old YMMV, but no regrets for me.
(If you do go this route, there's many YouTube videos demonstrating how to pop this open and get the drive out. Then, you can still use the enclosure with the 500gb PS4 drive you swapped.)
That said, I went a little different with my PS4. Like a lot of people on line, I got this Seagate external and removed the drive for my PS4. http://www.bestbuy.com/site/seagate-backup-plus-2tb-external-usb-3-0-2-0-portable-hard-drive-black/2944503.p?id=1219083979672&skuId=2944503
Now, you're voiding all kinds of warranties there but iirc, it was on sale when I got it and cheaper than any bare HDD I could find at the time. Consider this recommendation a big old YMMV, but no regrets for me.
(If you do go this route, there's many YouTube videos demonstrating how to pop this open and get the drive out. Then, you can still use the enclosure with the 500gb PS4 drive you swapped.)
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