Sheikah Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 That's not the exact model I bought so I wouldn't like to say for certain. But yeah that's the gist of it. Eurogamer updated their hard drive upgrade guide to mention 2015 drives, including this one. Apparently it's a bit harder to get the drive out of the newer models but is still the same drive. In the Amazon comments people have said they used their to upgrade their PS4 hard drive too.
Eenuh Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 We ended up going for the Samsung hard drive instead: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-9-5mm-Internal-Drive-Compatible/dp/B00I8O6OQ4/ref=sr_1_1?s=computers&ie=UTF8&qid=1451663360&sr=1-1&keywords=2tb+ps4+hard+drive I think that is the one we bought before. Some of the comments we read about the case being difficult to remove on the other hard drive put us off purchasing that one. I had a £30 voucher on Amazon though so I guess it wasn't too painful buying this one. :P Our plan is to buy Battlefront digitally (if it is still cheap by then) so we can play it on both consoles, then just try and sell our disc version of the game. Hopefully this will all work out ok!
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 Yeah, that HDD is a thinner model so will fit in the PS4. Just got to take it out. And yeah, playing a digital game that was purchased only once online with 2 accounts on 2 different PS4s works using the method I mentioned in my previous post. The person who didn't buy it and doesn't have PS Plus must log in on the PS4 that is assigned as the primary console. The person with the Plus account who bought the digital game then logs in to their PSN account on the other PS4 and they can play it too. That's awesome. Thanks for that! I found some videos on youtube related to that. and Delighted with all of that. I guess that's another big plus about buying digital. Rather than paying twice with two discs, you can just buy one digital copy and both of you can access it. Should come in quite useful! That's not the exact model I bought so I wouldn't like to say for certain. But yeah that's the gist of it. Eurogamer updated their hard drive upgrade guide to mention 2015 drives, including this one. Apparently it's a bit harder to get the drive out of the newer models but is still the same drive. In the Amazon comments people have said they used their to upgrade their PS4 hard drive too. Yeah, I read that article and a few others that mentioned it being a pain in the arse to get into the casing. I went for the same drive as I previously owned, which didn't cost all that much more and we had the voucher (Eenuh mentioned earlier) which softened the blow. There's been quite a few moments this Christmas where I've wanted to play one game (want to start Uncharted 3) and Ine wanted to play Battlefront. (she's really addicted) Would've been quite handy to have 2 PS4s then. Now, we're at the stage where we don't watch an awful lot of tv and would rather game instead. This will come in reeeeeally handy.
Shorty Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 That Samsung drive is literally the drive that's in those Seagate externals :p so you paid £30 to save you the effort of prying open some plastic....
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 That Samsung drive is literally the drive that's in those Seagate externals :p so you paid £30 to save you the effort of prying open some plastic.... We've just cancelled the order and bought the Seagate one instead. It better not be too difficult to pry open! Also some of the reviews say the new casing now is metal instead of plastic, which is what makes it harder to open (plus part of it being glued to the casing I think). We'll see how it goes!
Retro_Link Posted January 1, 2016 Author Posted January 1, 2016 I too went for the Samsung hard drive, and it's easy to replace them in the new model Add me! Retro_F1
Shorty Posted January 1, 2016 Posted January 1, 2016 We've just cancelled the order and bought the Seagate one instead. It better not be too difficult to pry open!Also some of the reviews say the new casing now is metal instead of plastic, which is what makes it harder to open (plus part of it being glued to the casing I think). We'll see how it goes! I found the most difficult part of transferring not the removal or installation of the drive but the fact that basically none of my games would copy back across from the temporary storage I used in between. So I had to redownload them all. Save games backed up and moved over fine. Bear in mind once you back up game footage and screenshots to USB, you're converting them from RAWs and can't put them back again (but can put them on a PC). Don't damage the external drive because you can put your 500GB drive back in, format it and then you have a 500GB USB3 drive spare
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 2, 2016 Posted January 2, 2016 I found the most difficult part of transferring not the removal or installation of the drive but the fact that basically none of my games would copy back across from the temporary storage I used in between. So I had to redownload them all. Save games backed up and moved over fine. Bear in mind once you back up game footage and screenshots to USB, you're converting them from RAWs and can't put them back again (but can put them on a PC). Don't damage the external drive because you can put your 500GB drive back in, format it and then you have a 500GB USB3 drive spare When I swapped over my hdd into the current PS4, I redownloaded all of my games and think I must have left the system on overnight. Can't contemplate doing it now...it would take aaaaages! Think it would take me a week to get everything back if I were to do a swap now. I'll try my best not to damage the casing. Although, based on some of the videos that I've seen online of people showing how to remove the casing, I think that's going to prove to be very difficult.
Rummy Posted January 3, 2016 Posted January 3, 2016 Mildly annoyed I saw some cheap indie/small games going in the sale that I wanted, so I went and spent my nectar points on £20 of credit and now...they're not on sale anymore -.- Nothing I'm noticing in the January sale is particularly taking my fancy either, but I'm sure something will come up one day, just need to keep the credits somewhere safe! Do they expire at all if you don't cash them in within a certain time etc? On a plus side though, I finally took the plunge for this bad boy...
Agent Gibbs Posted January 3, 2016 Posted January 3, 2016 I did the same and got a 20th Anniversary controller in the sales, the build quality seems better on it too, how is it with the Gold one?
Rummy Posted January 3, 2016 Posted January 3, 2016 Not sure I can say - it feels quite similar to my white one, but a bit more new(sticks actually clicking still, more grippy) but that might easily wear with time. I've definitely given my white one a lot of use already, so until the gold one's caught up I couldn't really say! Doesn't feel particularly different to me, but maybe I just don't notice these things. In unrelated - got a bit irked/annoyed yesterday about the PS messages app. They've actually wholly separated it from the PSN app, so now I need a whole different app to actually message/get messages through my phone it seems. I was under the impression they were going to make it as an optional for those who want just the messages and not the whole thing, rather than separate it wholly.
nekunando Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 (edited) After all this time, I finally played a PS4 tonight My brother treated himself to one this afternoon, along with FIFA 16 and Drive Club, so I called down to help him set it up. I played one race of the latter and despite it playing well enough, it's not really my sort of racing game. A second controller meant that we could play FIFA 16 together so we sat down to a couple of games of that, after customising the controls First impressions of that were that it was slow and cumbersome, criticisms I've levelled at the series for a few years, but it definitely had a touch of polish compared to previous entries on PS3. It wasn't too bad! I certainly didn't come away feeling any great desire to go out and buy a PS4 (if anything, it increased my hype for seeing what Nintendo can offer with NX) but I did want to comment on how good the controller is. It feels really well built and is mostly comfortable. My only problem with it so far is the indents on the analogue stocks as I prefer an entirely convex surface on top. I'm sure I'd eventually get used to it but I never liked it on XBOX and my opinion hasn't changed here. Hopefully Nintendo won't go on the same way Edited January 4, 2016 by nekunando
Daft Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 Honestly, I'd just get analogue stick covers; they make the sticks more grippy and the increased size helps with accuracy. I wouldn't have thought it but now I have them on my DS4 (got them to combat the crappy rubber covering) the standard sticks on both the PS4 and the XBO controller feel...small. This means you can also customise the surface to be anything you want.
Rummy Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 PSN down for maintainnce but nothing should be according to Sony? Anyone know more? The possible threatened takedown at all?
James Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 Yeah I've seen that, that ask PlayStation account on twitter is clearly a robot and completely useless for any actual information.
Rummy Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 Yeah did try to find out what was up but there seems to be nothing on Sony official channels and the twitter was useless as you say - the lack of word makes me think its unforeseen. Annoying as I came home to do my Destiny dailies!
Happenstance Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/gaming/psn-down-playstation-network-breaks-for-first-time-in-2016-as-sony-acknowledges-service-is-a6796431.html
martinist Posted January 4, 2016 Posted January 4, 2016 B00h PSN is still down. I was being logged out again and again last night while i was on the PS3. It was the same the night before that too but the store was loading fine and I could download stuff just fine also. No idea whats going on with this.
Jimbob Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 Could be a possible DDOS attack, or Sony are doing emergency maintenance seeing as it was recently reported the PS4 was hacked.
Ronnie Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 I'm off to play my first ever Tom Raider game ....
S.C.G Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 I'm off to play my first ever Tom Raider game .... Give us an update later on to let us know how many Tom's you have raided and whether or not they were obliging. In all seriousness though, are you playing Tomb Raider Definitive Edition? If so I'd be interested to hear your thoughts on it, I'm currently playing it but on the Xbox One as it was free with Gold, only reacently got back into it though, but hopefully I'll be playing the sequel within the week as I've had it since launch.
Ronnie Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 I am indeed playing the Definitive Edition. I'll post my thoughts in the dedicated thread...
Fierce_LiNk Posted January 5, 2016 Posted January 5, 2016 The PS4 is here and we've switched over the HDD to the new one. Dat storage space. @Shorty, getting that drive out of the casing was a right bitch! We followed a youtube video where a guy was removing it out of the old casing. Apparently the new one is much tougher and it proved to be so. We had to resort to getting a stanley knife out, or else the casing would never have been removed. However, we took your advice and swapped the PS4 HDD into the new drive's casing and we now have a spare 500GB external drive to spare. Might use that for school work! We've given this all a test. Can confirm that we were able to both play online together on two separate PS4s using just one PS+. We tried it with Rocket League. Makes quite a difference having a whole screen to yourself. The white PS4 console is lovely. Think I might actually prefer the black though!
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