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The restore may be faster. Indeed it could be an useful indicator of where the bottlenecks are within the PS4. Post again if you remember! Our of curiosity, what are you using for backup/restore?
Have you upgraded your PS4 HDD?
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The restore may be faster. Indeed it could be an useful indicator of where the bottlenecks are within the PS4. Post again if you remember! Our of curiosity, what are you using for backup/restore?
You mean which external HDD? I have this one.
Ok so backup done. It took 3 and a half hours for 300GB of data. Not too bad, everything considered. Now I'll swap the HDD to the new one and let you know how long it takes to restore it all. Then again I might be asleep by the time it finishes so we might never know.
Not working at the moment............. hmmmm
AH! OF COURSE! THIS IS F'KIN SONY! On their very own website where they give instructions on how to do this whole thing, they link to the file to download firmware 2.50.
Only they link to an OLDER VERSION (i.e. not 2.50), so when trying to install it on the PS4 it fails, as the PS4 expects 2.50.
So I had to get the file from a completely non-Sony website, which of course has links to the latest versions of Sony firmwares, unlike the creators of such firmwares and products.
I'm just. Speechless. They're just. I can't.
EDIT: So if anyone is trying to replace the HDD and can't get the firmware to install, use this link. http://www.ps4firmware.com
F&£KERS!!!!!!!!
Only they link to an OLDER VERSION (i.e. not 2.50), so when trying to install it on the PS4 it fails, as the PS4 expects 2.50.
So I had to get the file from a completely non-Sony website, which of course has links to the latest versions of Sony firmwares, unlike the creators of such firmwares and products.
I'm just. Speechless. They're just. I can't.
EDIT: So if anyone is trying to replace the HDD and can't get the firmware to install, use this link. http://www.ps4firmware.com
F&£KERS!!!!!!!!
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Weird. The link in the middle of the page is linking to the correct firmware. It's the exact same link as the third party website, which simply decodes the sony website to provide the link. They don't host it.
Are you sure you were using the download link in the recovery instructions, and not the update link at the top?
Either way they really should put both links at the top, I did that mistake when I upgraded and it took me a while to understand I had to use the small link in the middle of the text, which is the 900mb file. It wasn't that stupid before they revamped the entire website.
Are you sure you were using the download link in the recovery instructions, and not the update link at the top?
Either way they really should put both links at the top, I did that mistake when I upgraded and it took me a while to understand I had to use the small link in the middle of the text, which is the 900mb file. It wasn't that stupid before they revamped the entire website.
1000% sure.
The Sony website gave me a totally different file (750MB or so which was dated February). The third party gave me an 800+MB file.
The update-only is a ~200MB file.
I'm right. They're useless. But hey now I have 1.5TB of free space.
For the record, restoring the backup took around half the time as creating it.
sony always late at updating their web across regions. One page updated, the other will follow.
MS was also like that years ago.
MS was also like that years ago.
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Thanks. The restore time is the interesting one; 300 Gigabytes in an hour-and-a-half is ~55 Megabytes a second which means the PS4 is doing both a read of that speed (over the external USB) and a write of that speed (through internal USB then SATA) and I'd speculate that this is a limit (sustained writes) of the new drive.
I really didn't expect restore to be twice as fast as backup so would be interested how fast the HDD can take a sustained write when connected to a PC or Mac.
But thanks for sharing. 1Tb -> 2Tb will likely be my next upgrade but I'm not going to run out of space (I still have 480Mb of my 1Tb free) this year. But it's good to know the process is a whole lot faster than current exports of pictures and video to USB sticks!
I put the stock PS4 HDD in a caddy for data transfers and get sustained 110 Megabyte reads from it. It's not that slow
I really didn't expect restore to be twice as fast as backup so would be interested how fast the HDD can take a sustained write when connected to a PC or Mac.
But thanks for sharing. 1Tb -> 2Tb will likely be my next upgrade but I'm not going to run out of space (I still have 480Mb of my 1Tb free) this year. But it's good to know the process is a whole lot faster than current exports of pictures and video to USB sticks!
I put the stock PS4 HDD in a caddy for data transfers and get sustained 110 Megabyte reads from it. It's not that slow
okay... bought 1TB USB HDD instead of 2TB because... i dont know why -___-
after i opened the USB case to extract the HDD i just realized that i dont have other USB HDD to "backup" the internal PS4 data.
yeesh
after i opened the USB case to extract the HDD i just realized that i dont have other USB HDD to "backup" the internal PS4 data.
yeesh
It has to be FAT
He needs an external to backup his PS4 to and then from onto the new 1TB HDD. Although you get your old internal HDD back to use in the external caddy, PS4 actually requires 3 HDDs for a an HDD upgrade (with a transfer). Best advice is to borrow one.
One of the significant advantages of running content from external HDD is no need for this madness, and just plug in a new HDD to expand your PS4.
Edit: Is the backed up data copiable? Could orangpelupa backup his PS4 to his new external, then copy that to PC, then swap HDDs, then copy that data to the old HDD now in the caddy, and final restore to PS4?
@Shifty Geezer thats a nice idea! 
i think i can free up spaces on PC and try to do that. Theoretically it should works
i think i can free up spaces on PC and try to do that. Theoretically it should works
I am waiting for the Nyko data bank to do so. My Seagate SSHD 2 To 7200RPM is ready...
Im confused here:
put the hdd back in the usb case backup the internal hdd, remove hdd from case and put it in the ps4.
why are 3 drives needed ?
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