Seagate Game Drive For PS4 – A Portable HDD Review

Seagate Game Drive for PS4: A Good Choice for Console Users

The appearance of the new Seagate Game Drive for PS4 is not different from other Seagate products. It is a portable HDD which has a sleek and tough aluminium enclosure (black with blue).

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Seagate HDD with Different Capacity

Seagate provides three options for you in terms of the capacity: 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB. I guess the latter two are more popular.

• As for the thickness, the 1TB and 2TB HDD (two smaller capacity options) are only 9.6mm thin. It is thin enough since the thickness of a normal internal SSD is 7mm. Yet, the larger version – 4TB Seagate portable HDD needs more space.
• As for width and length, there is no difference between those three versions.
• As for the height, the 4TB version is 20.7mm. Double the capacity, double the thickness; it’s fair enough.

Here is one thing that the 1TB model, 2TB model and 4TB model share in common – they are powered by USB, no extra power adapter is needed.

This is a wonderful design mainly because of 2 reasons:

1. People can get rid of the annoying cable.
2. They do not need to stay near a free outlet.

Features of Seagate Game Drive

Easy to Use

The setup of the Game Drive couldn’t be simpler! You only need to do one thing before you’re ready to go – plug the Game Drive directly into any USB port located on the PlayStation 4 console.

Then, the PS4 system will recognize your drive and it will walk you through the process to setup. It is said that the Seagate Game Drive for PS4 will be ready to use in less than 3 minutes. That’s really impressive.

Sometimes, the Seagate portable HDD may not appear after connecting. Here are the possible reasons and corresponding solutions:

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What makes the drive more wonderful is that it can be compatible with any generation of PS4 as long as a 4.50 or higher system is running.

Large Capacity

What a terrible experience to discover there is not enough free space on your drive when you try to install the game that you’ve been waiting to play for months. With a 4TB Game Drive for PS4 at hand, you won’t have that trouble. Assume the average size of a game to be 30 ~ 50GB, the Seagate Game Drive will allow you to save about 100 games. Your favorite games and the newest and hottest titles can be stored on the drive easily.

Of course, there are many other drives that have larger capacity than Seagate Game Drive for PS4. But the Seagate drive is better than them since it’s based on 2.5-inch drives while others are based on 3.5-inch drives.

Seagate Game Drive vs. Internal Drive

Fast speed:

Actually, the USB 3.0 bus is fast enough to support the performance. You can’t imagine that this portable HDD is as fast as the internal HDD while it won’t break any speed barriers. What’s even more exacting? It is even faster than the internal drive under some circumstances.

Great portability:

The extra advantage of Seagate Game Drive when compared to internal drive is: you can take it with you wherever you want while the internal one can’t. In this way, you are allowed to play games on any other PS4 consoles (for instance, your friend’s PS4 console); afterwards, you can continue your progress when go back home (of course, you must sign in to your PSN account).

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