Toshiba 4TB Canvio Basics Portable External Hard Drive,USB 3.2. Gen 1, Black (HDTB440EK3AA)

UPDATE:Still using this drive and has been reliable and a great buy from Amazon. Recently after receiving a VIP code for a PlayStation 5 I sold my PlayStation 4 and now on the latest gen. I hooked everything up the same but this time you want to plug the Toshiba hard drive to the back of the PlayStation 5 as it has x2 USB 3.0 ports. I’ve copied some games to it and it’s still been fine and have been running PlayStation 4 games on it such as Wolfenstein Alt Collection, Tony Hawks Pro Skater 1 & 2, Serious Sam etc and has worked flawlessly.This drive will also store your PlayStation 5 games on it but won’t be able to run them as it’s not a SSD so not compatible for that but for storage and being able to run those PlayStation 4 Disc and Digital games it’s still a top gem.At the end of the day it’s an external hard drive and like any other 3.0 with a usb they will work for Playstation or Xbox. If they have their own format tool which they do you won’t have any problems. The first thing that comes up once you’ve connected it and powered on the console a message saying “Not Compatable”. Well it actually is it’s just that it’s not formatted and more like it’s been pre formatted to NTFS which is what windows use. Once you have formatted it, it takes literally seconds that’s it.Once you go to your system settings scroll down to Devices, USB Storage Devices, External USB 3.0 Toshiba. There it will ask you to format to an extended storage.Please note, once you have done this the preferred drive will be the external one, I’d suggest to use the internal hard drive for main storage as it will be more cooled from the fan inside the console.If you have say The Last Of Us which is about 50GB move that over to the external drive as there isn’t anymore updates for that game now. While on the subject keep games like Red Dead Redemption 2 on the main drive I only say as with new games your going to get a lot of updates like still Grand Theft Auto 5 and running the external drive constantly with the updates ploughing at it every day or so wouldn’t be good for it.I haven’t tried any of the games running off it yet but from what I read online they run faster apparently.I would recommend a 4TB hard drive as after the format with the systems own volume putting its own data on your left with about 3.5TB

I got this for my PlayStation because it was running out of storage space and it works great, the only issues are that you lose a charger port while it's connected and when I plugged it in it wasn't 4tb it was 3 point 66tb

The Best of the BestI was looking for really big space as my laptop has been having a lot of issues lately and i wanted to back-up everything in one place (especially my university work). I wanted something durable that could last me for years. I've found it! and i don't have to look any further! This is a really nice External Hard Drive, it's really sturdy and nice, and surprising how light this thing is considering how much space it holds (I bought the 4TB)!It's really easy to use, you just plug it in, and you can drag and drop or copy and paste your things over! I highly recommend purchasing this! Plus, 4TB is going to last me a very long time, i don't see myself using that much space anytime soon, so it's definitely getting its money worth out of it.It came packaged really well! I've added an image to this review to show that and it also comes with its own 3.0 USB cable. It is indeed quite short, but this isn't a problem for me as I need it at home more than out and about, it's perfect length for being stationary/having it next to your computer/whatever you're using it on. I haven't taken it out anywhere yet (portable wise), but it's quite small so no doubt it could fit in a small bag/deep pockets!The delivery was extremely speedy as well - it arrived 4-5 days earlier than it was meant to! It looks exactly like the pictures shown and has a lovely blue light when connected to your device, it flashes when things are being transferred, which i think is great.Overall, I am extremely happy with my purchase and I definitely recommend buying. Thank you Toshiba for such a wonderful product!

I plugged this into my main Mac running macOS Mojave and Disk Utility would not see it at all. So I tried it on my MacBook Pro and this time it showed up. After formatting it works on my main Mac without any problems (so far).Some competing drives come with NTFS drivers for Mac, but this one doesn't. Indeed on the box it states reformatting is required for use with macOS. Reformatting is a good idea anyway if you are only using Macs, to enable encryption. The technical specs on the Amazon product page are a bit askew: RAM size 4TB, Hard Drive Size 4GB. The drive I have is 4TB, which after formatting with APFS - most suitable for Mojave - yields 3.6TB of usable space. That is quite a sizeable difference from 4TB, but more or less what one expects from manufacturers. But it does tend to grate after all these years of the one million byte megabyte fantasy.I am wondering about the age of the drive, or whether it has been tested with later versions of macOS, as the box is marked macOS v10.12, 10.11, and 10.10. macOS 10.12 is quite old now. macOS v10.13 was released 18 months ago, and that is not on the box.The drive itself is almost silent and has very reasonable transfer rates for a USB drive. It comes with a 2 year limited warranty, but no information on whether you need to register at the time of purchase. I have emailed Toshiba to find out.The drive arrives well packaged in heavy bubble 'tubes' - like ordinary bubble wrap but in the form of long bubbles.Overall it's a good purchase.

I brought this for my university work and it is amazing for its price. Would still recommend a SSD