5TB Western Digital WD_BLACK P10 Portable External Hard Drive

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11-20-2020 at 02:31 PM #5

Would anyone know if running games off of Steam from this would affect performance vs ssd or is it basically longer load times? I can live with the wait to save $$$

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11-20-2020 at 03:07 PM #6

FYI: Non-shuckable, USB connector is soldered on where the SATA connector is. Amazon review pictures show it.

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11-20-2020 at 03:34 PM #7

I grabbed one of these recently, thinking I'd be able to install some PS4 games on it, and then also use it to e.g. back stuff up from my computers -- Nope.

However the PS4 "prepares" the drive for its use assimilates the whole drive, killing any existing partitions, and makes it unreadable to Windows. No options to choose a partition or tell it how much of the drive to use.

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11-20-2020 at 04:04 PM #8

Quote from joshg253 :

I grabbed one of these recently, thinking I'd be able to install some PS4 games on it, and then also use it to e.g. back stuff up from my computers -- Nope.

However the PS4 "prepares" the drive for its use assimilates the whole drive, killing any existing partitions, and makes it unreadable to Windows. No options to choose a partition or tell it how much of the drive to use.

Doesn't even show up in disk manager then?

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11-20-2020 at 04:05 PM #9

Quote from eightbit84 :

Would anyone know if running games off of Steam from this would affect performance vs ssd or is it basically longer load times? I can live with the wait to save $$$

Seems to work fine for me. I don't notice any longer load time either.

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11-20-2020 at 04:11 PM #10

Is this as good as WD Passport for regular use? or just specific for game drives?

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11-20-2020 at 04:13 PM #11

But the WD "easystore" 5T was only 89.99...

(https://slickdeals.net/f/14556698-wd-easystore-5tb-external-usb-3-0-portable-hard-drive-black-89-99-fs-at-bestbuy?v=1)

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11-20-2020 at 04:15 PM #12

Got this for $95 during Amazon Prime Day. Works fine.. maybe slightly faster than Passport, but not by much.

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11-20-2020 at 04:18 PM #13

Quote from joshg253 :

I grabbed one of these recently, thinking I'd be able to install some PS4 games on it, and then also use it to e.g. back stuff up from my computers -- Nope.

However the PS4 "prepares" the drive for its use assimilates the whole drive, killing any existing partitions, and makes it unreadable to Windows. No options to choose a partition or tell it how much of the drive to use.

What about formatting it in windows as FAT32 then trying it on PS4?

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