Hardware PS4 question

[PikachuPrincess23]

Which HDD or USB is best for transferring games from PS4 to PC?

 

[godreborn]

just use a flash drive. I'm not sure what the largest game is, but 64GB+ should be good enough. I have 128GB with mine. if you're going to dump games, the default setting has the system shutdown after complete, so it's best to do only one game at a time.

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this is what I use: https://www.newegg.com/patriot-model-pef128gsmgusb-128gb/p/0DF-002J-00069?Item=0DF-002J-00069

it's fast. the only downside is that there's no activity light, but since the system will shut down once an app has been dumped, it doesn't really need one.

 

[PikachuPrincess23]

I have a HDD but when i plug in into one of USB port i get this.
cannot format this USB device as extended storage area. Use a USB device that meets the following requirements. USB 3.0 Newer storage capacity equivalent to minimum 250 GB, maximum 8 TB.
Thats why I'm asking which HDD or USB i shall use.
I need to expand it as a storage area and l can't do that with HDD i have.

 

[godreborn]

what size is it?

 

[PikachuPrincess23]

It's 120 GB.

 

[godreborn]

have you tried both mbr and gpt? 'cause my system would only accept gpt with 2TBs. otherwise, the device wasn't detected. this was only for installing pkgs though.

 

[PikachuPrincess23]

No how do I do that?

 

[godreborn]

you can see in aomei partition manager.

 

[KiiWii]

It's 120 GB.

https://manuals.playstation.net/document/en/ps4/basic/extendedstorage.html

Yup has to be 250gb or larger to use.

I use a 2TB game drive for mine.

 

[PikachuPrincess23]

I'm going to USB with PS4 Save Wizard and i need right USB.

 

[godreborn]

I'm going to USB with PS4 Save Wizard and i need right USB.

afaik, it doesn't matter when doing that.

 

[PikachuPrincess23]

What you mean?

 

[godreborn]

the flash drive doesn't need to be a certain size (afaik anyway) when it comes to backing up saves.

 

[PikachuPrincess23]

Strange, i have used USB before HDD and i can't use USB since I need to expand it as a storage area or i can't backup saves.
Forget it, i got it to work.