That's awesome, thanks
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PS4 System Software Update 4.50 Features Detailed
- Thread starter madmackem
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That's awesome, thanks
The good about external hard drive is the portability and the possibility of multi drive with different games.
The bad is that you can only use one drive at time, the save and the gallery will be tied to the internal hard drive.
For now I've transferred only 54GB of digital games and i haven't noticed any difference in launch time, loading time and performance but i've to test other games because i had the impression of an extra input lag with One Piece PW3.
The bad is that you can only use one drive at time, the save and the gallery will be tied to the internal hard drive.
For now I've transferred only 54GB of digital games and i haven't noticed any difference in launch time, loading time and performance but i've to test other games because i had the impression of an extra input lag with One Piece PW3.
Nope, the PS4 fully formats it, no way to partition. It's not recognised afterwards by my Mac at least, so I assume the same happens on PC.
Just like the internal drive, when i've changed the internal drive my PC won't recognize the PS4 one and i had to use a program for give the unit a letter and reformat to ntfs.
Thanks, better than nothing I suppose.
ScriptedReality
Member
WAIT! I have a 2TB just sitting around with the 3.0! Time to clear off all that crap I never use anyway lol.
Waldo Lydecker
Member
Couple of important questions:
- Is this good news since external SSD's are much cheaper then internal SSD's?
- And will an external HDD used by the PS4 be just as quick as the internal?
Thanks in advance!
- Is this good news since external SSD's are much cheaper then internal SSD's?
- And will an external HDD used by the PS4 be just as quick as the internal?
Thanks in advance!
Goose_Se7en
Banned
This isn't mine, but can anyone post a pic of how this screen looks when an external HDD is plugged in? Are both storages pooled together like on Xbox One? For example, on Xbox One there is an option to showcase everything installed on both internal and external drives. I have a 500GB Xbox One and use a 4tb external drive, and the pool would show 4.5TB if nothing would be installed or close to it.
Does PS4 work the same way? Since I have a 2tb internal drive, and another 4TB drive, would it show 6tb of storage just waiting to be filled?
USB 3.0 is usually pretty damn fast so it should be good.
Spaulding
Member
That is not correct. My downloads show up in the notifications. If I click on one download, it filters for all downloads. O to return to the previous screen. Maybe you disabled downloads from showing up in notifications?
Karspankey
Banned
This isn't mine, but can anyone post a pic of how this screen looks when an external HDD is plugged in? Are both storages pooled together like on Xbox One? For example, on Xbox One there is an option to showcase everything installed on both internal and external drives. I have a 500GB Xbox One and use a 4tb external drive, and the pool would show 4.5TB if nothing would be installed or close to it.
Does PS4 work the same way? Since I have a 2tb internal drive, and another 4TB drive, would it show 6tb of storage just waiting to be filled?
Here you go. There aren't pooled together and you have to select which one you want to be the primary location for downloads. You can also not save capture gallery items to the external.
This isn't mine, but can anyone post a pic of how this screen looks when an external HDD is plugged in? Are both storages pooled together like on Xbox One? For example, on Xbox One there is an option to showcase everything installed on both internal and external drives. I have a 500GB Xbox One and use a 4tb external drive, and the pool would show 4.5TB if nothing would be installed or close to it.
Does PS4 work the same way? Since I have a 2tb internal drive, and another 4TB drive, would it show 6tb of storage just waiting to be filled?
Now you need to select which one to view before getting that info:
Edit: beaten lol
Goose_Se7en
Banned
Thank you for replying. Well I won't complain, I'm just grateful external HDD will be a thing for the masses in a couple of weeks.
I haven't disabled nothing, i've to check if there is some problem with the notification.
Bojanglez
The Amiga Brotherhood
This is my plan. Unless tests prove an external SDD is just as fast.
Is that even possible? External to be faster than internal?
Backfoggen
Banned
Internal HDDs are also using USB so it's likely.
On the One it's 100% true, USB3 is faster than SATA2 so externals are faster than the internal drive.
On regular PS4 it re-uses the USB bus so we'd need tests.
BigEmil
Junior Member
Interesting never knew that
Transistor
Banned
Save loading is a really, REALLY small part of what contributes to load times
RICH_OV_HULL
Member
this is true as far as i can tell. I formatted a drive on ps4 then plugged it into a pc to try and put some media files on it, but the pc no longer recognised it as a volume. I could only see the drive throught device manager but couldn't use it.
kingwingin
Member
this is a fantastic update and is really making me want to upgrade to a pro. Tho i think ill hold off to see what direction they go with the ps5.
Full ps4 BC with a Boost mode 2.0 will have me there day one
Full ps4 BC with a Boost mode 2.0 will have me there day one
Yes. I use one for my Brook convertor because it's too thick to fit in my PS4 Pro.
DemoCracy
Member
If I format HDD in exFAT with PC, will it work on PS4 in 4.50?
RICH_OV_HULL
Member
yes but for extended storage the ps4 will format it again, once it has been reformatted by ps4, a pc will no longer recognise it as a usable volume.
Audioboxer
Member
IIRC someone said they could take it between PS4s, but I assume you need to be logged into YOUR account. ymmv, as I cannot test myself right now.
Fixed2BeBroken
Member
well, they would obviously shut up about it now that we got it, and them not shutting up about it maybe partly why we finally got it. having more options is a good thing right? stop complaining about complaining.
DemoCracy
Member
Thanks a lot
RICH_OV_HULL
Member
you're welcome.
RICH_OV_HULL
Member
Sja_626 said they had tested it and the drive worked on multiple ps4s, they didn't mention accounts but like you i'm pretty sure you would need your account for it to work.
For digital games it's safe to assume that you need at least your account on the console itself. For the games on disk it doesn't make any sense.
RICH_OV_HULL
Member
Agreed, but obviously you would need to take the disks with you.
Well it's better than nothing because at least you have all the DLC and patches installed.
Reckless Onion
Member
Holy shit on 4.50 ps4 pro is maxing out my connection!!! downloads are so fast now
Unknown?
Member
It's amazing where storage size has come in 10 years. In early 2007 a 60GB HDD in a console was huge! It was thought to be more than you would ever need(and was for a long time) but now you couldn't even fit Doom on that whole drive! Now 2TB is too small for some people(including me) and I'm thinking about a 5TB drive for a total of 6.5TB which may not last by the time I've stopped buying games for it.
I am getting 58/51 right now. That is the highest I've ever tested tbh. Looking good.
whatttt?
Windle Poons
Made a crappy phPBB forum once ... once.
I was working on 20mb hard drives, let alone 20 gig!!