How to Set Up Your PS4 External Hard Drive | Inside Gaming With Seagate
2019 ж. 24 Қаз.
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Your PlayStation system is basically a computer-and that means you’ll eventually need more storage to expand your game library. The portable Game Drive for PlayStation is a great place to start thanks to expansive hard drive capacity of up to 4TB (enough to store 100+ games!) And bonus-it’s super easy to use. Here we’ll show you exactly how to set it up and get playing within minutes.
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This is the kind of videos we need. Clean, simple, fast
10/10
welcome for 200 likes lol I was your 200 th like lol
Can I plug it in to the back USB port
@@armore8889 yes
Yep non of the fluff with it
Who else is here because of Modern Warfare?
just had to delete 3 games for the 80GB update haha rip
Sean Navarro right here man modern warfare took all my space lol 😂
Brah
Me!!!!
I've got 75gb free on my PS4 and can't download a 12gb 1.13 patch.
2 and a half minutes of simple straightforward information without excess garbage Thank you.
Thanks a lot!
10 games for a 500gb console haha I have 3 and it’s still telling me to delete more for modern warfare
So many videos I saved in the past 5 years had to be deleted. I'm mad about most of it.
Yep
kerri fiedler help me read my comment above in the comment section
Same I got r6 crew 2 and pub g
I had to uninsyall Modern Warfare recently for storage for more games. I'm trying to get a Seagate STGX1000400 Portable 1TB External Hard Drive HDD and I wanna see if it's good for ps4
I DIED when you said a 500 GB can hold 10 games like I can’t even have 4
I got about 12 on one tb. Some rpg open games but some smaller games too
I literally have 5 games
i’ve got gta and cod, that’s about all lmao
You must have some very large games then
Those 4 games must be collosal. Let me guess, GTA, Red Dead, Call of Duty?
10 to 20 games? Nowadays a call of duty game is 200gb** bro
2tb or 4tb and as long as it's 3.0 compatible does it matter if it's for pc or ps4 and does it matters what brand
@@phatswag100 no it needs to be 3.0 only, any hard drive would work as long as it's 3.0 compatible
@@cor-eye9843 8tb hub doesn't work on ps4 it works with xbox one
Ok
My call of duty modern warfare won't update onto it and I have a 2tb one? Any help
two and a half minutes straight to the point, no witty puns or wasting time. Absolutely appreciated. Buying one on amazon now
Wonderful, thanks for the great feedback! 💚
@@seagateHey, I don't think you'll respond but it's worth a shot. I inserted the disc, but it still says I don't have enough space, even though it's brand new, you got any tips on what to do?
Thanks a bunch for getting straight to the point instead of making a longer-than-10-minutes video. Very clear instructions too, much much more informative than a 10 minute video.
We're glad to hear it was helpful. We appreciate the feedback!
everybody needs this for cod now
Jose i got the 1 TB storage in the mail today its worth the money $40 on amazon
I got the 4TB for just $40 more than you paid for your 1TB. You should return it and just get the 4TB bro! 🤙
altered evo where did you get it ?
@@MrErick2391 Amazon. "Seagate 4 TB". It will pop right up! 💪
altered evo i just have the newer games right now so just cod and nfs heat is what ive been playing 1tb is fine for now
Looks like he wants to laugh after every cut
You tuber we need, you tuber who loves his job
4r😂
500 gb: let me tell you about modern warfare 1tb: let me show you about my updates
Lemme say about offline JailBroken games
As the older sister of a 10yr old who is addicted to PlayStation, thank you for making this quick and easy
W sister
Straight to the point quick and easy THANK YOU thumbs up 👍🏾
Thank you so much for this excellent quick and easy setup tutorial! Your video was perfect!
I just bought mine I got the Seagate 4TB Game drive at Walmart on sale for $115. I was so tired of running out of hard drive space on my PS4 resulting in me having to delete a game or some of my previously saved game data just to play a new game..... I’m hoping this will solve all of my issues. In The research I’ve done the Seagate game drive is the best external hard drive available on the market today!! I’m glad I went with Seagate 👍🏻👍🏻
Ima get that one Saturday I was gone get the 2tb for 85 but I might as well spend the extra just in case lol
Honestly thank you for a short, simple, informative video .. keep it up ❤️👏
Thanks for this concise and helpful guide, Mack!
Lies again? Testicles Balls
Very helpful! Quick, easy and informational
When I got this thing and realized I had to set it up, I thought I was screwed and then I searched up a video and this was the first one to pop up and it was literally the exact same storage thing that I had so thanks a lot for the vid man
Very helpful, I loved how you explained it us, thank you ! Only 20 games for 1 TB.... I do understand now why I don't have any place anymore
Hi Jessy! Thanks for the nice feedback! 😊
Thanks, couldn’t figure out how to hook it up. No I did not buy a seagate extension based off of the comments, though I still could not figure out how to set it up.
When you play modern warfare so you laugh but also cry at the fact that he said 500 gb could hold 10 games 😭
Thank you so much. Simple and to the point. No hassles and no flim flam lol. I am definitely a subscriber
Yo thx man I appreciated the fact that you had to go through all this and help all of us thank you man
Thank you for the feedback! 🙂
Was interested in getting one this definitely going to make me a customer. Seen the Seagate version and definitely will be buying it. Thanks for the info!
Bro tell that...when he installed that external hard...ps4 said something about format...was that about formatting the ps4 drive or the external hard drive? please tell me
Great video - straight to point and we'll presented
Thank you bro I've had this thing for months and still coudlnt find out how to connect it im mad it was this easy bless you please keep making simple and easy tutorials like this for slow ppl like me
hey is everything working good? i just bought mine and when i download update it still says storage is full eventho i literally just connected it and i have not put anything 😭
I love how he gets to the point quickly thanks!
We appreciate the feedback!
I have a 500GB PS4 I currently have 2 games downloaded and its at maximum capacity.. I don't know where you got 10 games from..
ME TOO
Do you have call of duty on them? I only bring up COD cause even on a 1tb I didn't have room for many games, but once I deleted Blackops 4 I have been able to install 3 games without deleting any.
Probably for smaller indies games I guess
@@stevenmattocks1601 no not indie games, after deleting cod I was able to download final Fantasy 15, final Fantasy 7, Tales of Berseria, street fighter 5. On-top of God of war, Doom enternal, batman Arkham Knight and horizon zero dawn and the Last of us
@@Lacoste9277 It’s absurd how much Modern Warfare takes up. Never reinstalling it, way to much space.
So freaking easy, thanks a bunch. I just bought one and was having a hard time getting this done
Hey Vincent! Glad this was helpful for you!
i just bought one and thought it was broke. i plugged it into the 2nd usb slot and it lit up, but in the settings it said it wasn't connected. had to switch it to port 1 and then it worked. not sure why because he plugged it into port 2 in this video and it seemed to work fine. guess it doesn't really matter as long as it's working.
@@seagate you're welcome
@@1ofakam is your extended storage hard drive still working?
I’ve just watched the video and it’s worked thanks also watched the video on how to move games onto the hard drive it’s worked thanks for the videos they have helped me so much
Bro this video explained ALOT of things to me thank u man ❤
I wanna know how sad of a life the 136 ppl that disliked this video is. Its literally a short effective video. Its crazy to dislike something like this Great job Bro!!
I didn’t dislike it but I’ve had many issues with seagate products in the past so I can see why some people might dislike out of anger
Not a problem anymore! 0 dislikes! Like magic!
@@halffulltome yeah, that's mainly because they don't want people to see how many people disagree with the narratives they push on youtube. pretty soon they'll probably disable comments on youtube. they already delete many of my comments, because they don't want the brainwashed masses seeing too much truth.
Who else here because of modern warfares next update...
Bro yes. 200gb for one game wtffff lol
Randy Merida haha too right I had to cut everyone’s WiFi in my house just for the update
Im here i had to buy one because im tired of deleteing all my games
Short and straight to the point. Thank you!
No problem! We are glad you found our video useful.
@@seagate for some reason it is not working for me
Finally short and on point. Thank You.
I know you cans switch to have your primary HDD to be the internal or external, but can you install games on both and use them without issues?
The Season 4 MW has come and it take so much space on my ps4 ! Oohhh god i need this ASAP !!!
Same. I just cleared up 200gb of space for that shot and I liked the games I had to delete
@@Eazygg yeeah the update itself toookk aboutt 43gb if i not falseee dayummm just like one game to download
I deleted EVERYTHING just for the update, guess what.. wasn't enough
@@orc121498 yeah I’m here at season 6, had to clear my entire library for it, and am afraid the next season I won’t have enough space so I bought this lol
I thank you so much. Without this very structured and to the point video, I'd be lost lol.
This is exactly what I need.
Just picked on up and plugged it in to the bottom usb port and it would not work i have the original ps4 then tried the top usb port and it works just wanted to send the info out if people are having the same issue
This tutorial was super simple! 👍
Thank you for this. Excellent and clear explanation
Seems to me exactly the same instruction for this and my Seagate back up plus Slim 2tb which does not work tried everything for my ps4 G1 how's this any different if I purchase one as you still have to format it and my ps4 don't wanna play
I'm pretty sure that one didn't work because it wasn't made for the ps4 with constant use being the incentive the model you bought was made for media casual stuff
2 Questions that should have been covered. Can you just unplug your external drive when ever you want or should you eject the drive like any USB drive first to safely remove it? Also can you play games directly off the external drive or do you need to move them over to the ps4 main drive?
Hi there! You can contact our tech support team directly on our website: seagate.media/6052pPz0Q. They will be able to answer any additional questions you might have. Thank you.
@@seagate So I have been on hold for 55 minutes when the system said 18 min. WOW...maybe someone could just answer my 2 questions here.
I will buy another brand.
Good job bro thanks for the info simple easy and straight too the point exelent video👍 you earn a new subcriber😎
This was the most superb 2 minutes and 28 seconds of my life.
Storing 10-20 games... I have 4.
I have 2 call of duty takes up so much space
Roger Foster I had to buy a $40 external hard drive
Did u have issues installing it
Roger Foster No at all
I have a 1tb not letting me format
Recently brought Seagate Backup plus portable drive 4tb 😐 didn't know about game drive specifically so will my drive compatible with my ps4 if i follow these process to use the drive for ps4 pro's extended storage?
Have the same question? Can anyone tell me how there's went
It'll work but I don't think it'll last since the model you bought wasn't made for that
Very good, concise and informative. Two thumbs up!
Thats so cool brings me back to the old memory card days
I got my hard drive I purchased in the mail today and I followed the instructions and it does not allow me to download games onto my external hard drive, I have no error codes or anything wrong with the external storage device. The only thing that is wrong is it doesn’t allow me to download my applications and doesn’t work for just purchasing and receiving it. May I please have assistance on my situation. Thank you.
THE SEARCH SESH did u ever find out how to fix that problem I’m having the same trouble u did
Have you tried reaching out to our support team? They will be able to best support you with troubleshooting tips and offer further assistance. www.seagate.com/support/ Thanks in advance!
Michael Lopez I was able to get it to work by restarting my PS4 Data base (Be sure to not have anything plugged into your USB ports)! I deleted a lot of games that took up storage and I was able to get it to work. I believe the data base restart helped a lot and deleting a few games as well that took a lot of storage. I would recommend doing this because it may work. If it doesn’t I think you just need a get a replacement. Storage device works great when you’re able to get it to work. Good luck, and lmk if this helped! I hope you and everyone are doing great though, take care and stay safe and stay safe!
Notsilent-_- this was actually able to work, it was very strange although I just restarted my Data base on my ps4 and deleted a lot of games, so I basically chanced it. And it was able to work. Thanks for the info though!! This was the first thing I tried and it wasn’t working. I think I had too much storage on my PlayStation hard drive so it wasn’t able to work till I made space on there for my external to work properly. My apologies if this doesn’t make sense, it was just completed to deal with. Works good though thankfully 👍🏼 I hope you and everyone are holding up great though! Take care!
Seagate Technology I actually did try to attempt reaching out to the support team although I felt like I was able to figure it out myself because I was very impatient at the moment because I was very curious why this great device wasn’t working. I needed to restart my data base on the platform I play on and I had to delete certain games that had a lot of Gigabytes. I truly appreciate you reaching out and helping! Thank you for providing us a good hardware system. Have a great one, take care to whoever I am speaking to.
I used up a 2tb Can you transfer items from the full one to a new one 4tb i cant update my games because they are on the 2tb help!
Dam idk what to do
Same I have a 4tb and it’s full, I asked someone who sells external hd at Best Buy and he told me that he didn’t know either, he said if I find out to let him know lol
I just ordered mine, can't wait! I've had my ps4 for a few years now and im finally full of games that I dont want to delete. When my nieces and nephews come over we get down on some PS4 but im full on storage, we've played all the games too much and my storage has been holding me back from getting new games. I cant wait. I got Tony Hawk 1&2 for ps4 and ill be getting Crash Bandicoot 4 along with fall guys, spyro, and cyberpunk . Can't wait
Yay, we're excited to hear that! We hope you'll enjoy your new drive. 🙂
Thanks for this easy informative video👍
How portable is it compared to having discs. Like, can I take the games to my friends house and have him play my games using his account?
Yes
Will this work with the PlayStation 5 when it is released?
Of course. but it will be slower. because ps5 uses SSD
@@iGenJu28 yeah so like gta u put it on the ssd and like others on hdd
Thank you bro ... simple and nice . 🙈👌🏿✊🏿 it worked for me
Thank you! Awesome tutorial
Soooo if this is literally for the ps4 why is not formatted the correct way from the beginning?
Because the sony format could change over time.
Its just hard drive with ps logo on it nothing more
Funny hahahha
They paid for the license. That's it.
@XTurkish SA exactly
Do you have to get the ps4 one specifically or can I just get a normal Seagate one
TommyGQ you can just get a normal one regardless of brand
I got a 2tb seagate one, working 100% fine
Be careful though if your ps4 is a 1st generation I've just purchased a seagate plus Slim 2tb and can't get it to work that's why I'm thinking of getting one of these as they are for all generations of ps4
I got a different Seagate one and it ain’t working
@@JustinBorgnis is your ps4 the first version like mine
Thanks for the help brother 🙏🏽
Thanks! Great presentation! I just bought a 4 tb one. Can’t wait to start downloading.
Brad Griffin hi quick question did you experience any problems when downloading? Sorry to take your time but if you could, could you tell me the model for the 2 tb hard drive so I make the correct purchase? Thanks!
wade brogdon no problems at all. It’s awesome! It’s the same model this guy in the video is talking about.
I just bought the Seagate Backup plus portable 4TB. Now I can finally have more then 3 games lol. Welcome back GTA V and Mad max. Nooo... arghh I’m trophy hunting again.
Brad Griffin, hi i just wanted to know if you must chip you playstation for the hard drive to work
So PS4 can be portable. Anytime, anywhere we go, for your new technology being partner with PlayStation has made life easier. Thanks Seagate to make that happened.
It's just a 3.0 HDD, nothing unique from Seagate here.
@@Jonifico2.5 inch other than that your correct. Me myself just got myself a SATA chassis for 3.5 inch drive & be getting an internal Seagate Exos 7E8 (8 TB drive) for for my PS4 & still be future proofing my coming PS5 Pro meanwhile! 👍
Jus bought the seagate 4tb for 100 bucks izactly I’m so happy cause moder warfare is almost 200 gbs and I have over 100 games,I had only 5 games on my account which was fortnite,cod 3,cod modern warfare,gta v now I’m gonna have 4K gbs I’m so happy I’m gonna download like 30-40 games should be here in about 3-5 days just ordered it today Edit:this was the longest comment I ever did
does it still work?
Finally a video thats only two minutes long and not 500 hours
Thanks for the info dude 😉
Will this, and/or the 4tb version be compatible with the upcoming ps5?
Marius Lone most likely. He said it is compatible with all generations of ps4s’
wade brogdon 🤦🏾♂️ A PS5 isn’t a PS4, genius.
Always_Serpico lol thanks. I was saying that since it was compatible with every version of the ps4s it would most likely be compatible with the ps5 so next time you should read before making a dumbass comment okay.
Most likely but it'll be slower compared to the ps5 new hardware still worth it for more storage just expect slower loading times than the ps5 internal specs
He sounds like he's about to bust out laughing
Just bought the 2 Tyb hard drive for my 500 gig ps4, I’ll never have to worry about storage again, thanks for the video
i'm planning to do the same, although i've heard that the seagate ones only last 3-6 months
hey is everything working good? i just bought mine and when i download update it still says storage is full eventho i literally just connected it and i have not put anything 😭
@@izaakk932 that’s true man mines only lasted couple months crazy 2 tb too.
@@k.r1056 got mine in september. still running good for now, we'll see what happens i guess
is it still running?@@izaakk932
Huuuwawwww. That was so fast yet informative and clean. Kind of videos we badly needed.
Bought this to download games I bought on the playstation store because my system ran out of space. My screen says the same stuff his does about "application download location" but it wont let me download the games. Why?
Aurora King same problem here did you figure it out ?
Any update on fixing the problem?
I found a solution, i just deleted a large game and them redownloaded it and it just got saved on the drive, everything else will then be downloaded on there too, it’s a weird fix but somehow it makes it work @SUSPECT TV
Aurora King I couldn’t transfer my CoD MW because it was trying to update the latest version. So I just moved over games that didn’t have updates. After CoD updated since it had room now, I moved it to the extension.
10 to 20 games pft I literally have like 6 games and I got like 100gs left of 1tb
Tai Pinkerton yeah because you have 1 Tb 😑 common sense lol
Thanks for the information I needed this
Great info buddy straight and to the point
I plug mine in and get no notifications and it doesn’t show up in usb storage devices
it has to be FAT32
Supersonic Nw I’ll try and convert it and see if it works
Mine was working fine and all of a sudden it stopped showing up
Mine have the same prob. It does nothing....
Is this device gonna be compatible with PS5? Started playing lot of warzone recently but I know ps5 is coming out in 3 months. I STILL need an external hard drive cos I had to uninstall modern warfare 7 times in 2 months
Nope sadly
Yes, but only for PS4 games. You won't be able to store PS5 games on it, but many PS5 reviews say that their drives worked just fine for PS4 games. I just ordered one to put my PS4 games on so I can save space on the limited internal PS5 SSD.
Thank you this really helps 😊
I just ordered one from Amazon it’s gonna be here tmw. Omg 😱 yes finally more game I love you SEAGATE.
Yay! That's amazing, we hope you'll like it!
Seagate Technology is there a reason why i have it plugged in, formatted and everything and i still cant download 2k21
does it still work?
When i go to format i keep getting a error
Thanks for reaching out. Our support team will be able to best assist you with this. Can you please reach out to them here? www.seagate.com/support/ Thank you!
水F L O W same with me
Mine says cannot format this usb storage
And it doesn't delete your saved data when you format it
You need to format the hard drive that you are using as an extended storage not the ps4
Jsit bought this and didn't know how to use it until i saw ur video, plain, fast, simple, straight to the point, thank u
Happy you found this helpful!
Thank you. Just ordered one. 🤟
Well explained and quick 👏
Thank you I kinda panicked when it said it was unsupported.
I bought a 3tv seagate hard drive but when I plug it in nothing comes up like there’s no usb storage???
did u go to settings?
Thank you gor the video super help very clear instructions
Omg I love you dude!!!😁 great vid, you made my life a lot easier…
So I got the message: "You are already using a different extended storage device. You can use only one extended storage device at a time. Do you want to switch to this extended storage device?" What will happen if I say yes here? Will all the games on the first external drive be wiped?
A certain ghost did u find out then Orr?😳
I believe it just wants you to designate the location were new download entries should be at when you decide to make newer downloads. It should be able to use both hard drives even though only one of them has the permission to download.
I can tell you tomorrow if my PlayStation doesn't act up. I download a bunch of games to my hard drive so I will try using both the games on the og hard drive and the games on the external hardrive. My external is a Seagate too.
I just bought one and it says I still can’t Download games
Me too I'm pissed into cod for let me see 90 for game 99 membership 140 Seagate HD. Any luck getting it to work I followed the video 4 times nothing.
did you find a way to fix it?
Same. Someone help!!
@@cesarmedina4637 it's probably because you didn't get the one specifically for the Ps4
Sweet! Thanks for the info bro. 😄
Flawless tutorial thanks bro
When formatting will it delete the saved content on the PS4?
MrsLady1018 I have the same question
No, all your stuff will be safe. I just did mine :)
tacoguy210 hey so did I, no one got back to me in time so I just risked it and all my stuff is still there. Thanks tho
Verzerio risked it for the biscuit‼️ Lolz. I’m a bit nervous myself I’m about to set up a Sandisk 1TB SSD external🤞
When I go to format it comes up with an error code and my sengate meets all the requirements, what’s wrong !
We're sorry to hear this. Can you please contact our support team? You can reach them here: www.seagate.com/support/ Thanks in advance!
My ps4 external hard drive is beeping and it can't format what do i do?
Thx for helping me do this I was struggling to know how to do it thx so much
Nice video, simple and get to the point
Reading a lot of these comments is turning me away from purchasing this. How can you assure me if I purchase this i won’t run into these problems, and if I do, are they resolvable?
Resolvable, yes they are... PS4 support will automatically display any known faults, and then ask for your permission to fix the problem... like for example, any power shortage, and your game shuts down unexpectantly etc... only thing I could think of would be that the external HD should be USB 3.0 compatible with storage space up to 4TB's. Which is a bummer really for me personally... I wanted to go 5TB's or more, lol. Nearly 3 years ago I purchased a PS4 Slim with 1TB internal HD... I mated it with a 4TB external WD My Book hard drive, following the instructions given by the console, and that was it... 5TB's to manage all your games and data. I won't go into the number of games I have on there... we'll save that for the peacocks, gotta let them have their joy, lol. I don't know everything mate, but it seems to me that Seagate and WD can be trusted. Have a good one bro, Cheers...
Keep in mind that people with issues are way more likely to comment. 99% of people don't run into problems, they're just enjoying their PS4 games away from this comments section.
We fixed our issues with this device quickly. Apparently if you don’t plug the device into the system quick and firm enough it has trouble reading it.
I just got mine and I followed his instructions. I was so excited to download COD but it still said "not enough storage" I'm about to break this dam thing. Pissed me off.
I recommend you buy the seagate 1tb back up plus slime from staples it’s was close to $60 & it works good
Thanks i can finally do the warzones update without deleting 2 games
Exactly it's a life saver
Very informative and to the point video, thank you. Question: Is there anything you cannot save on these?
Straight to the point. Buying one now
That's great! We hope you enjoy your new drive!