If the caddy breaks can you just pull the drive and recover data or is it somehow encrypted??
nickcollins25 to ItsADeal_ItsASteal
22 Sep 17#12
No, unless you have encrypted it yourself, in which case, you’d have the encryption key anyway...
ratsdomino
22 Sep 17#9
thought this was a storage heater!
ahmed123
22 Sep 17#8
Doesn't PS4 only allow for 2.5" hard drives? Unless the hard drive in the caddy is 2.5".
ST3123 to ahmed123
22 Sep 17#10
No, you can use either, the PS4 doesn't care as long as it sees usable storage on the USB connection. I haven't tested it myself but you could probably even use a pen drive so long as it had sufficient capacity.
Of course, you can only use 2.5" inside and not even all 2.5", has to be 9.5mm or less, which sadly rules out a lot of higher capacity drives. IMHO Sony really should have made the space a bit wider to take 12.5mm drives when they did the Pro and Slim as a lot of the larger drives like 4TB simply aren't available in 9.5mm thickness....
benjammin316
22 Sep 17#5
standard price
powerbrick
22 Sep 17#4
take it these aren't bus powered.
ayjay123 to powerbrick
22 Sep 17#6
3.5 inch form factors have never been bus powered
bigf00t to powerbrick
22 Sep 17#7
Bus powered available for £20 more.
weerob88
22 Sep 17#3
If I remember rightly once is been formatted by the Xbox you can use it in the pc. Mines away being repaired so it's been a while since I checked but I'm 90% sure I've got MP4 films on mine
Junglis999
22 Sep 17#2
Thanks OP. Am I correct in thinking that you can't partition a drive to be used with xbox. I want one half to be used for movies and one half for games.
rubberbullets
22 Sep 17#1
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Of course, you can only use 2.5" inside and not even all 2.5", has to be 9.5mm or less, which sadly rules out a lot of higher capacity drives. IMHO Sony really should have made the space a bit wider to take 12.5mm drives when they did the Pro and Slim as a lot of the larger drives like 4TB simply aren't available in 9.5mm thickness....
2 year warranty
seagate.com/gb/…as/