and he couldn't get the hard drive to pop up under devices

2 month in and the hard drive died.

when just unplugging it would be the solution and then it would have to be repaired (the external hard drive )

and you wont wast your money on something that will stop working after two months of using it If you want a good External hard drive go to bestbuy.com or bestbuy store and talk to an expert they will say the Western Digital is better then seagate

In general I like the design and the structure of the hard drive

The updates also download to the hard drive, but you can move it to system storage if you like

it took a bit to re-download the games but the process was easy and the drives been working fine.

Within 3-6 months, the drive has become completely unusable.

, I would definitely recommend this hard drive to you.

When I bought my PS4 slim, the first thing I did was to actually change the hard drive, from 512MB to 1TB

Great External Drive

This in turn frees up my internal hard drive so that my system does not slow down

and now I can’t play most of my games until I get another hard drive

This little hard drive has been a REAL life saver

This is a GREAT option as many games take up as many as 50 GB, so this will be an excellent way of expanding your game system's storage without having to upgrade the internal hard drive

Note that I don't use this as a portable drive - it just sits there next to my PS4 Pro, away from any hot air vents, etc

Although our PS4 was new last Christmas, the hard drive was filling up fast

you still have the extra GB's from your PS4's built in hard drive so you have PLENTY of storage

His PS4 wouldn't read the hard drive so he finally figured out that it needed to be connected to a PC for it to be read

I have had this hard drive for a few months and it worked well the first 4 months until it started to show an error code to repair

This is a great buy, and a good drive to be able to add more games onto a separate rive, however, I noticed my headphones (PS4 Gold Wireless) and my controller kept disconnecting when I sat on my couch about 10 feet away.

If you have an older PS4 and need the space this external drive is awesome and very easy to setup and use.

Everything worked fine until a few months in, the hard drive would make my PlayStation

And yes this is after you format the hard drive

Ok so the drive works as advertised but the cord or drive itself causes interference with Bluetooth and WiFi devices running at 2.4ghz

It was really frustrating having to delete whole games from my hard drive every time I wanted to install anything

I got my hard drive today, as far as i know it works

Really loved the external hard drive need the extra memory

This hard drive is extremely easy to use just plug in and the system does most of the work after a couple button presses

The PS4 asked me if I wanted to format and prep it as an external hard drive (she's always so polite), so I said yes... then about a minute later I had 2TB extra hard drive.

I bought this hard drive

A drive should not die in less than a year.

The best external hard drive for the ps4

This Seagate external hard drive works great with the ps4

With the size of Playstation games these days it would make more sense for Sony to put in a larger hard drive

Side note: if you power off your PS4 abruptly when you turn it back on the hard drive will usually need to "repair" itself which takes less than a

This is perfect for those who need extra storage space and don't want to rip apart their PS4 to replace the hard drive

Seagate is my usual 1st choice for hard drives

My son loves this extra drive for his PS4

Today, it made my PlayStation turn off, and when I turned it back on, that was it for the hard drive

I reloaded them on the system hard drive and no issues st all

This external hard drive was a breeze to set up

So, this hard drive is great, if you don't mind losing your WiFi connection, and having the controllers Bluetooth signal interrupted

I had instructions that I got off of the internet on how to install an external hard drive on the PS4, but I still thought it might be more complicated somehow - things usually are

This hard drive works great

This hard drive is the 💩💩

This 2TB bus powered USB 3.0 is a great drive

; I was able to transfer some games to spare some room on my PS4 hard drive

Although I found this drive to be about 30% slower than the internal drive, it provides the significant advantage of allowing one to store many more games on the PS4 so one does not need to reinstall games that were removed to make room for others

Great hard drive for the

The drive works fine but the cord that can with it was not being read by the ps4 forcing me to buy a different.

Very nice backup drive for my Playstation

and I've used a little more than half of the space on my drive and still have the 500 GB on my PS4's internal drive available

but I was able to transfer 6 games (Destiny 2, The Division with dlc, Bloodborne, MLB:16, and several others) from my PS4 onto the hard drive in 40 minutes and is running flawlessly

i been waiting for so long to get the hard drive now I finally can save all my game 😁

After it passed, and the play station booted up, I got a message that the hard drive would have to be reformatted

Great hard drive for the

I have the 500gb PS4 and it was out of memory, but this hard drive gave me an additional 2TB

This external hard drive was just what we needed

I have tried to use other hard drives with my PlayStation 4 before, but none of them are as easy to use as this one

When I looked into it, my PS4 just could not even read the external hard drive

This hard drive works great

So, this hard drive is great, if you don't mind losing your WiFi connection, and having the controllers Bluetooth signal interrupted

This external hard drive was a breeze to set up

This drive does not work at all turns

A USB storage device that meets the following conditions must be used (CE-41902-6).USB 3.0 or later250 Gb minimum, 8 Tb maximum capacityDirectly connected to the PS4I guess I now have a 2 Tb external hard drive but this does not improve my storage capacity of my PS4.

We read other one star reviews and this seems to be a recurring problem with this hard drive

A BACKUP HARD DRIVE

I've never had any problems with the external hard drive until two days ago

that way the PlayStation can read the external hard drive

The PS4 asked me if I wanted to format and prep it as an external hard drive (she's always so polite), so I said yes... then about a minute later I had 2TB extra hard drive.

This hard drive is extremely easy to use just plug in and the system does most of the work after a couple button presses

Simply plug it to one of your Playstation’s USB ports (the cable required comes with the Hard Drive), follow the instructions on screen, and just like that you’ll have 2tbs of extra space (though it’s actually closer to 1.84tbs in all honesty)

This was so easy to connect to my ps4 and the transfer speed from my internal hard drive was wonderfully quick

Mine was working fine at first then after a month my ps4 doesn't even read the hard drive anymore

4TB external hard drive for the PS4 system is what you need since most games are more than 30 GB and you’ll never have to worry about space ever again

The Seagate 2TB Game Drive for PS4 works excellent.

Everything worked fine until a few months in, the hard drive would make my PlayStation

Tried to do a warranty return and Seagate is saying there is no stock in this drive available to replace it

Beyond that, the drive itself is easy to install and a simple way to expand your PS4's system storage!

I have had this hard drive for a few months and it worked well the first 4 months until it started to show an error code to repair

As it's supposed to be plug and play, I'm hoping it's just a defective drive and not a defective product line.

Received a defective drive that locks out from the PS4 and won't connect.

One supported this as an external hard drive, the other said it wasn't usb 3.0 or something

This drive is great.

This little hard drive has been a REAL life saver

This in turn frees up my internal hard drive so that my system does not slow down

Thought i had to replace my PS4's hard drive with this, was pleasantly surprised to learn i didn't have to.

, I would definitely recommend this hard drive to you.

This is a reasonably fast drive that significantly extends the storage of the PS4.

This is a great game drive for the PS4 games.

After deleting my old games to make way for my new ones, this external hard drive is a gift from above

I transferred my applications from my internal hard drive and within one hour i had 436 gb transferred.

Plus these external drives aren't too pricey so you can get TWO and have TONS of storage space

Great external expansion drive and 2TB is a good size.5 stars.

and you wont wast your money on something that will stop working after two months of using it If you want a good External hard drive go to bestbuy.com or bestbuy store and talk to an expert they will say the Western Digital is better then seagate

Very easy to connect with PS4 and even easier to transfer storage from PS4 to hard drive.

I recommend powering off the ps4 the regular way and not holding the power button :( as this drive didn't power down correctly and had to recover itself

’s hard drive.

Perfect solution if you are running out of space on PS4 and don't want to take console apart to install new hard drive.

I'd understand it if I bought some cheap hard drive from Wish but this one is suppose to be top self

While running, the drive is near silent and after the initial huballoo you'll soon forget that it's even there while reaping the benefits of vastly expanded storage.

Everything has automatically downloaded to this external hard drive and it is a great addition to a 500GB PS4

I'm glad this drive is so easy to set up and use as an external for my PS4.

The drive gets fairly warm also so I would set it off to the side instead of on top of my

The hard drive doesn't work on ps pro

I plugged in my plain (not specifically for ps4) 1.0 TB Toshiba hard drive that I had previously used for work documents and it worked right away

they are the best ones for any ps4 system please dont waste your money on this External hard drive for your

Seagate's 2TB Game Drive for PlayStation 4 (STGD2000400) is standard size and weight for a Seagate portable hard drive

If you are tired of choosing which game file to delete from your PlayStation's HDD then buy this hard drive

The gaming hard drive is amazing and has over 20 big games on it already and isn’t even close to being full love it

I correctly installed it and got it working for my PS4, then about 45 days later (after return policy) my PS4 got all these error notifications about not being able to install updates on the external hard drive

The drive was super easy to connect and use

It does it’s job, adds 4TB of extended storage, it isn’t an internal solid state drive that runs 7200rpm and kicks butt on loading times, but if you find you run out of space to often with your 500gb stock PS4 or 1tb PS4 Pro, then this is a reliable brand external hard drive

format the hard drive to the PlayStation

Takes about 2 minutes to get set up and took me a little over an hour to to transfer about 800 gb from the system hard drive to the seagate

it said the hard drive had not been disconnected properly so it needed to repair

the drive crashed several times during play.

The hard drive really easy to set up, now I don't have to worry about memory for a long time

Most hard drives need to be reformatted specifically for the system

I will recommend this external hard drive....

I waited several months to give this product a rating because hard drives, good or bad take time to show their defects and malfunctions

Great external hard drive for my ps4 pro

Hopefully it was just a bad drive and not happening to everyone else.

Instructions were very clear on what to do when I plugged this hard drive into the PS4

I kinda wish the USB ports were on the back of my Playstation for aesthetic purposes, but that's no fault of this hard drive

Your PlayStation 4 will recognize the usb input, ask to format the device as a external hard drive, click yes, and it's done

But I have a Seagate 500GB portable hard drive of the same size that I've been using for a year and half with no problems

This is exactly what we needed to expand the hard-drive space for our PS4.

I have a black 3TB Seagate Expansion external hard drive connected to my PS4 and it works the same.

I'm hoping I can return both hard drives and get my money back, was such a disappointment.

Having had plenty of bad experiences replacing hard drives on other devices, when my PS4 ran out of space, this external hard drive fixed the problem in literally about three minutes

But I have a Seagate 500GB portable hard drive of the same size that I've been using for a year and half with no problems

And if you leave it plugged in, any game you download from the PS4 store, or from a disk, it will go straight onto the external hard drive, and you can put it into sleep mode while doing it.

Great external hard drive for my ps4 pro

I will recommend this external hard drive....

A lot easier then opening up the game system to replace the hard drive.

When Seagate claims that this can be setup in 3 minutes or less, they were not lying...it probably took more time for me to remove the hard drive from the packaging than it did to hook it up to my Pro and set it up, and that includes having to format the drive so that PS4 games can be saved on it

The hard drive really easy to set up, now I don't have to worry about memory for a long time

Don't have to open up my ps4 to put a new hard drive

By only having a 500GB hard drive

This drive works awesome and it's very easy to set up and use

After inserting the USB cable into the system, I was prompted to format the hard drive.

It does it’s job, adds 4TB of extended storage, it isn’t an internal solid state drive that runs 7200rpm and kicks butt on loading times, but if you find you run out of space to often with your 500gb stock PS4 or 1tb PS4 Pro, then this is a reliable brand external hard drive

Just plugged into the ps4 and it recognized it and then just went to the storage in settings and was very easy to move everything to the hard drive

The drive is compatible with any generation of PS4

I know is this hard drive the problem since I have both of my hard drives connected and the other one is even older

The gaming hard drive is amazing and has over 20 big games on it already and isn’t even close to being full love it

PS4 popped up a blue error message saying there was no external hard drive connected

Easier option then trying to replace the internal hard drive on the PS4.Read more

Seagate's 2TB Game Drive for PlayStation 4 (STGD2000400) is standard size and weight for a Seagate portable hard drive

It is used for video and pictures off your laptop seagate is not used for your ps4 system If you are looking for a external hard drive go with

This drive works as advertised and has not had any problems since I began using it about 6 months ago.

Nothing was corrupted though :D