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ninjapirate42 on 03 February 2017

I hadn't realized this wasn't available yet. Glad they have it now though!



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REDZONE on 03 February 2017

Good news,now fans of the other consoles will stop complaining about external Hdd.



vivster on 03 February 2017
Bandorr said:
vivster said:
People are all a bunch of hoarders.

I chuckled at this. I will never fill my 500 gb hard drive. I will never need an external hard drive.

I can't fathom how people are filling 2 TB+ harddrives.

That said good job Sony. For whatever reason - people seemed to really want this.

My steam library is bigger than all of my console games for evey console I ever owned combined. Yet for some reason I'm doing fine with 200GB of an SSD partition.



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StokedUp on 03 February 2017

Finally! Just after I've deleted 4 games to make space up. This is good news.



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The Fury on 03 February 2017
Bandorr said:
vivster said:
People are all a bunch of hoarders.

I chuckled at this. I will never fill my 500 gb hard drive. I will never need an external hard drive.

I can't fathom how people are filling 2 TB+ harddrives.

I only just started hitting the limit on my PS4 500gb, which is why I got a 1tb replacement. But the limit wasn't 500gb, it was like 410gb. Whenever updates wanted to install for game it wouldn't because it couldn't because of space (only 410gb used at the time). I had link 10 smaller downloaded games installed plus DA:I, Diablo 3, then the rest were disc games. 

So usually I just uninstalled a disc game and installed the next.... in reality, it was just annoying so if I wanted to go back to say Black Ops 3, it would have to install the whole bloody thing again, and that took ages the first time, longer with all it's silly updates. This just means people might not be as annoyed.



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VGPolyglot on 03 February 2017
Bandorr said:
vivster said:
People are all a bunch of hoarders.

I chuckled at this. I will never fill my 500 gb hard drive. I will never need an external hard drive.

I can't fathom how people are filling 2 TB+ harddrives.

That said good job Sony. For whatever reason - people seemed to really want this.

I have 33 games for the PS4, and I can only fit about 10 of them at a time. I like being able to just pop in a get and play it, so I hate having to update every single time.



Rafie on 03 February 2017
NobleTeam360 said:
Oh good, now I can stop deleting my games over and over.

Agreed! I'm constantly deleting games to make room for new ones. Glad this will be settled. Crazy that it will support up to 8tb. 



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VGPolyglot on 03 February 2017
Bandorr said:
VGPolyglot said:

I have 33 games for the PS4, and I can only fit about 10 of them at a time. I like being able to just pop in a get and play it, so I hate having to update every single time.

To only fit about 10 on them means they are around 40ish gigs each.

Are you actually playing 10+ huge games?

Like apparently Resident evil 7 has a 22 gig update.  So I can understand not uninstall that until you are done. But what about when you ARE done?

I still like keeping it on there anyways, for if I come back to it. I guess I'm just used to the pre-online generations when I could just pop in a game and play it.



Zombie9ers on 03 February 2017

Anybody have any recommendations on external HDD's? Looking for a 4TB or 8TB.



taus90 on 03 February 2017