Seagate Shuri SE FireCuda External HDD - USB 3.2, Customizable RGB LED Cyan, Works with PC, Mac, Playstation, and Xbox, 1-yr Rescue Services (STLX2000402)

The internal drive inside my PS4 was simply too small. I easily filled it up with few games so i definitely needed an external drive. I saw alot of great reviews so i decided to give it a try. Its working as described so far. The only time i encountered a little hiccup was my house was out of power for few hours while i was playing my PS4 and when my power came back, i tried to see if my PS4 if still works. It still worked but my external drive had to rebuild the data which i was a little worried it might be corrupted but it was able to rebuilt the data without issue. Good stuff.

It started to make weird sounds and the computer stop recognizing it, I lost all my data

This drive works as intended in terms of storage and the USB ports. The main issue I ran into is that the provided app for the lighting control does not work with all USB controllers (notably those using the Etron USB 3.0 controller chips). On my computer when I installed the app, it would see the drive but did not have any options for lighting control. I then tried it on my laptop and it worked, so I tried with the drive connected to another (non-USB 3) port on my PC and suddenly the lighting options appeared. Move the drive back to the USB 3 port and they disappear again. Came to the conclusion it had to be the ports, but all USB 3.0 ports had the same issue on my PC. Then I tried it on an old laptop at work that has the same Etron USB 3.0 controller as my home PCs motherboard, and sure enough the lighting options were missing. Its unlikely youd come across the issue on a modern PC as the USB controller chip in question is not found in recent PCs (the PC this is being used on is 10 years old), but be aware if youre using this with an older PC.

There is a lot of confusing information on the internet about what is it isn’t compatible with the PS5. This is from the seagate website: External drives on USB Hubs and External Drives with USB Hubs built-in are not compatible with PlayStation 5 (PS5). This includes the following Seagate products: Backup Plus Hub Backup Plus Hub for Mac FireCuda Gaming Hub FireCuda Gaming Dock Game Drive Hub for Xbox I think I was mislead because lots of websites seem to think just because it can be formatted to the PS5 standard of exfat it will work. Not true. Further the reviews on Amazon are all mixed together for a dozen different seagate products depending on which size drive you pick. Some work fine but the game hub style do not. If you want an 8 TB external storage drive for your PS5 buy the WD Black D10 8 TB. Do be aware you will not be able to play PS5 games from the drive. You can play PS4 games directly from an external drive but PS5 games must be installed on the internal drive. You can buy an SSD to expand internal storage. All that said I want to mention the the seller was great, very responsive and helpful. 5 stars to them. 1 star to the confusing mix of reviews on Amazon and the internet at large

Definitely a must have I was so glad of the price and is so useful

After only having it for 3 years. Its just stops working.

Absolutely looks awesome, and provides so much storage for the mountain of games that I downloaded. Would recommend.

Easy to use, fast setup, and above all it didnt crash out every two seconds like those pesky ones that plug in and take three times longer to upload and download the data. For some reason you cannot go wrong with this sleek, small, and darn impressive drive. If you are worried about ports like I was, then get a simple PS4 bridge and then plug the hub into into that directly. Bam, you have your drive directly connected and your PS4 is expanded to 3x as many ports than before. Do not let those dang mounts fool you. Just make your own stand and you can plug any portable hard drive in you like. In my case even though I carefully researched, my first was a hard nope and I still ended up with the better PS4 drive in the end. Dont skimp out, you will be pleased with the quality of the product.

This is a nice external drive for storing whatever you need one and has tons of space. However, its listed as a gaming drive and its about the worst thing for gaming! I can barely run small games off it without it constantly lagging and freezing causing the game to not respond. I currently have about 5 small Renpy games on it taking up less than 5 GB of space and its already struggling to keep up because the transfer rate isnt great. I am partially to blame though as I know SSD is the way to go and SATA cant handle games any newer than like 2008 lol I would recommend as a good priced external for an 8 TB but defiantly not for gaming.

Takes less than 2 minutes to connect to my PS4. Plenty of storage. A+++