PS4 HDD clone
Hello,
i din't try it and before i start to spend much time on trying, i would like to ask if i's possible to clone a PS4 HDD. I would like to replace the build in HDD (1TB, 5400rpm, 8MB cache) with an faster one (1TB, 7200rpm, 128MB cache).
Regards


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Thank you so much Steve. I will try it when i find some time this week. I will let you know if it works.
Best regards
Frank
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Here`s an update. It doesn`t work, because the new HDD is 126,3MB smaller than the old one. So i have to do it the regular way with save and restore with the PS4 tool which tooks along 3-4 hours for backup and the same time for restore. Cloning or backup and restore would have been done in half of the time.
Regards
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Frank, I would say that this falls into the limitations mentioned from the user guide where it says for:
- FAT16/32/exFAT * **
* File systems are supported only for disk or partition backup/recovery operations.
** File systems are supported only for disk or partition recovery operations (without resizing).
The brackets at the end are in play when your new drive is smaller than the original one, as resizing would be needed but is not supported for these file systems.
The good news here is that you have been able to do the migration using the PS4 tool, albeit more slowly than anticipated.
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Yes Steve, i have read the supported file systems. PS4 filesystem is none of them. But Aconis do the backup to an external drive, i made it sector by sector. The new drive is a Seagate Barracuda Pro ST1000LM049 with 1 TB, but they stole some bytes from it, so the file size is a little smaler than the built in of the PS4. I think i would have worked, if the new drive would have been large enough.
(Please excuse my english).
Thank you very much for your help!
Best regards
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