Hacking Hard disk change

[Carlos_DobleC]

Well, I bought a 4 tb hard drive and I want to know exactly how to make a copy of everything from one drive to another.

I had thought of connecting 2 cables with usb adapter and copy absolutely all the contents of one into the other. Will this be enough?

Edit: Maybe this does not make much sense in this section, but the hard disk change is basically for loading homebrew and backups.

 

[KiiWii]

So youre cloning an external hdd that has content on so you have 2 identical drives?

Yes that will be enough: with a laptop or pc inbetween.

You can do it with tools to do byte for byte cloning, but depends on youre requirements.

 

[Carlos_DobleC]

So youre cloning an external hdd that has content on so you have 2 identical drives?

Yes that will be enough: with a laptop or pc inbetween.

You can do it with tools to do byte for byte cloning, but depends on youre requirements.

I did not think to use a bigger tool than CopyPaste.

 

[KiiWii]

I did not think to use a bigger tool than CopyPaste.

Easus do copy tools, I believe partiton magic also does it.

 

[MostlyUnharmful]

I had thought of connecting 2 cables with usb adapter and copy absolutely all the contents of one into the other. Will this be enough?

Usually on a PC this wouldn't be enough, unless you resize the filesystem to the new HD size, otherwise your new 4 TB HD would continue to be used like a 1 TB HD (as you skipped the formatting part).

 

[subcon959]

Are you planning to install it in the PS4? Because sometimes they dont fit without messing up the BD player.

 

[depaul]

Yes beware the maximum allowed HDD width is 9mm. Anything bigger won't fit unfortunately.

 

[subcon959]

Well, you can just about squeeze a 15mm 4TB drive in but the lid might not fit back on properly, or worse it could press down on the disc player and stop it reading games. I think it depends which model you have as some people say it all works fine, but on my 1216B I even removed the metal shield completely but still had the BD player problem once the lid went on.

 

[KiiWii]

Well, you can just about squeeze a 15mm 4TB drive in but the lid might not fit back on properly, or worse it could press down on the disc player and stop it reading games. I think it depends which model you have as some people say it all works fine, but on my 1216B I even removed the metal shield completely but still had the BD player problem once the lid went on.

I have heard 9-13mm drives work fine but you have to remove or bend the caddy to accomodate them.

I did not know 15mm may also work.

 

[peteruk]

Was close to pushing the button on a 2tb Firecuda, I didn't realise we had 3tb / 4tb models that would physically fit inside

Had a good search through Amazon UK but all seemed to be like 15mm - don't really wanna be bending anything or pressing down on the BD either

Would love to know which model drives people managed to fit inside without issue's

 

[KiiWii]

Was close to pushing the button on a 2tb Firecuda, I didn't realise we had 3tb / 4tb models that would physically fit inside

Had a good search through Amazon UK but all seemed to be like 15mm - don't really wanna be bending anything or pressing down on the BD either

Would love to know which model drives people managed to fit inside without issue's

Just hollow out a databank and dont stress the gurth of that hdd bruh.

Haha!

 

[subcon959]

I have heard 9-13mm drives work fine but you have to remove or bend the caddy to accomodate them.

I did not know 15mm may also work.

I've only heard of 7mm, 9.5mm and 15mm drives. Never seen a 13mm one.

 

[peteruk]

I've only heard of 7mm, 9.5mm and 15mm drives. Never seen a 13mm one.

Have you come across any 3tb / 4tb that fit comfortably without modification or are we better off sticking to 2tb ?

 

[depaul]

TBH never seen a 3TB/4TB HDD smaller than 9mm.
Most people used to recommand Firecuda SSHD 2TB for internal storage, until the PS4 supported external storage and then no longer people care about upgrading internal HDD.

 

[Carlos_DobleC]

My disk is, effectively, 15mm, is there anything I can remove to fit it without pressing in the slit?

 

[subcon959]

Have you come across any 3tb / 4tb that fit comfortably without modification or are we better off sticking to 2tb ?

Just my opinion, but I'm not a fan of external drives so the biggest internal that fits comfortably is a 2tb like the firecuda. I've seen videos of people who fitted 4tb but I'm not convinced its a good idea in the long run, there isn't a lot of room for heat dissipation in there.

 

[KiiWii]

I've only heard of 7mm, 9.5mm and 15mm drives. Never seen a 13mm one.

I was wrong and was thinking of an enclosure thats 13mm.

I suppose the drive inside a 13mm would be 9.5mm

 

[peteruk]

Just my opinion, but I'm not a fan of external drives so the biggest internal that fits comfortably is a 2tb like the firecuda. I've seen videos of people who fitted 4tb but I'm not convinced its a good idea in the long run, there isn't a lot of room for heat dissipation in there.

cheers mate, it was actually the firecuda 2tb i was looking at.... got some Amazon uk credit left from Christmas I can use

not sure if I should hold off until kexploit for 5.0 first, just in case

 

[KiiWii]

@peteruk could be waiting a long time mate. We just dont know.

Btw updated the AIO guide for simple dumping and pkging.

..and more...

 

[peteruk]

@peteruk could be waiting a long time mate. We just dont know.

Btw updated the AIO guide for simple dumping and pkging.

..and more...

Yes probably best holding off then, hopefully things get patched up in 5.50 final

Been looking at your guide, looking good ! Hopefully you will need to update it for 5.0X soon