Reddit mentions of Rosewill 3.5 Inch Hard Drive Enclosure to USB 3.0 / eSATA. External Hard Drive Case Aluminum Body, Built-in Cooling Fan and Fan Switch. Support 3.5” SATA III / II / I Hard Drive up to 6TB and UASP function.

Yep, I purchased the same exact HDD. WD Black Series is baller, go for this one OP.

Link to WD Black Series 2TB Hard Drive

Link to USB 3.0 Rosewill Enclosure with cooling fan I highly recommend this enclosure. It's great!

This plus an internal drive of your choosing.

I use it and it works beautifully.

if you feel like replacing it , then this is what is possible if you want a big ass hard drive in their with a shit ton of storage

i dont feel like looking up the ps4 model numbers , but i got 2 og ps4s

my son has the glossy half the og ps4 i have the all matte og ps4 the second released model

they both can have hard drives replaced INTERNAL , it was the EXTERNAL SUPPORT we had to wait for

we have 6 terrabyte internal hard drives in both , filled with games , i got like 500 gigs left i think lol its awesome to load up your shit and have games for days

• what im about to decribe here was called the sata cable mod when ps4 was without external hard drive support , this was for people like me that wanted large hard drives in the ops4 but did not want to use the nyco data bank , its basically a hard drive in a external housing with a esata to sata cable plugged into the internal sata port of the ps4
  
  one was the first edition and the other is the second edition ps4 both og ps4 two diferent model numbers the two first released models , i think the second one was released a year and a half after the first model , im just guessing here
  
  from newegg i got Toshiba x300 7200 rpm drive at 6 terabytes ( its on sale right now , this hard drive was on sale last year at this time also around same price about 170 something like that i know becouse i bought 4 of them then )
  
  then i got a esata to sata cable amazon
  
  then i got rosewill external esata external hard drive enclosure , from amazon , the one with the circle in black on top for fan and blue light in front with looks like fan exhust whole front lights up blue
  
  then i removed ps4 hard drive i forget the process but i followed the steps to put firmware on the new drive once it was hooked up to ps4
  
  putb hard drive in enclosure ,
  
  put esata cable in back of enclosure
  
  put power cable on enclosure
  
  the esata to sata cable , the sata end this is the tricky part
  
  with neddle nose pliers fish that sata cable onto the internal sata port of ps4
  
  i did mine first time
  
  i did my sons first time
  
  my son accidentally got his sata cord unplugged , he almost fucked his internal ps4 sata port ( its fine now i fixed it he dropped it or tripped over it or something after i had him all set up with large hard drive and games ) , i think he yanked the shit outta it tripped and fell because i had that shit on their tight and when i had to fix whatever he did the cable was loose ( i told him to leave it alone but he plays with shit lol ) i had to do his a second time , because he kept fuckin with it before i could redo it he corrupted his data and lost all his game saves to 6 tb of games lol , my fault i should of backed his shit up , but what this means is once the thing is put together be careful , i have zero problems , i dont be moving around my ps4 but when i do i turn everything off and unplug the hard drive enclosure and separate it from the ps4 , he had tio start every game over from the start lol
  
  my ps4 had no problems because i take care of my things i have had 6 terrabytes on my ps4 the whole tim,e runs perfect , i just let it do its thing when it needs to update
  
  until you figure out what is what with restarting , disable rest mode first of all then turn on hard drive , then turn on ps4
  
  then turn off ps4 , then turn off hard drive
  
  i do not use rest mode to prevent problems , i probably xcan but i never tried it to see , i have no need for restr mode anyway , to me it is a useless feature
  
  if you do not start up the ps4 correctly with this internal hard drive ina external case the ps4 will load up to a black screen because the hard drive is not on , turn on hard drive first
  
  if you forgot to turn off hard drive last time you played and you see hard drive on buity ps4 off and your about to play - turn off the hard drive first , THEN turn the hard drive back on , then ps4 on - i guess this resets it becouse im guessing the hardd rive is in sleep mode or something - but if you do this you will see how you must turn off hard rive , then turn the hard drive back on if the hard drive was left on last time you played and you forgiot to turn the hard drive off when you walked away m, this will confuse you the fuirst time it happens then youi relize what it going on and its never a big deal again becouse now you know - basically just make sure everytime your about to play that the hard drive was just turned on and not left on from yesterday
  
  when i did my sons the second time i noticed he fucked up his power cord and i also for some reason could not get the sata cable back on his port i think he yanked the shit outta it becouse the port looked loose , so to be sade i just cut the damn cage out with tin snips looks shitty on the inside but nobody is gonna see the inside and i electric taped the shit outta his power cord , now his ps4 runs like new with storage , it ran like new before the first time i did it but he dropped the ps4 or something and yanked the shit outta it , runs perfect now and looks better than new after i fixed it a second time for him
  
  once that sata cord is on the ps4 sata port then use electric tape to tape it to metal cage
  
  tape the sata cable out the cage in the front then on top of the cage going to the back of the console and oout the back corner vent
  
  cut out the very corner vent making two vvent holes one hole , i did it with simple heavy duty tin snips
  
  then do all your firmware update etc
  
  i might be able to use rest mode but i dont know supposedly you can use rest mode but i never have just to prevent problems
  
  i have had both ps4s like this fopr 2 years and they work flawless , both filled with digital games gameshare everything
  
  now becouse i did this i can also get more storage likle a external hard drive
  
  i did this before their was external hard drive support
  
  i sit the external enclosure on top of the ps4 sitting on the hard drive cover
  
  the blue light go good with it and it looks good
  
  
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KGNXTE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
  https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B002P6W8E8/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o08_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
  
  
  https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822149629
  
  youtube playlist of the videos i used to get the idea to do itand how to do it
  
  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLW-2QscMs3iR4HAEXlvw1BiumYHqmaOPx

I think this is the one he talking about http://www.amazon.com/Rosewill-RX-358-U3C-BLK-Enclosure/dp/B005KGNXTE/ref=pd_tcs_subst_pc_1?ie=UTF8&refRID=1EYXKZSHHS1N7NTTQAAV

I would say just look at reviews for the most part. Other than that I would suggest one with plenty of air flow for the enclosure, possibly with a fan inside to make sure the drive doesn't get hot and shorten it's life.

A quick look at Amazon and I found this with 4.5 stars and $36. Sorry about the link but I'm mobile.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B005KGNXTE/ref=cm_sw_r_sms_apa_hB0Jyb4QVW748

You could get away with one even cheaper, but again you would want to make sure the drive doesn't get too hot.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005T3GRN2/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KGNXTE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

I'd recommend one of the normal combos and then get this (or something similar) instead. I've noticed a huge improvement on load times with the 7200rpm external hard drive.

Yup. You'll require a USB 3.0 housing. Like this one:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B005KGNXTE/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

Currently

Size: 6TB
Manufacturer: Western Digital
Model Info: WD6001FZWX

Sidenote: I use a Rosewill RX-358 U3C BLK for the enclosure.

My concern with these drives is that with games running they need high ventilation. I encourage anyone with or without tech savvy to get themselves an enclosure and an internal hard drive and build the drive themselves.

Enclosure I use, 3.0, with a nice fan, drive never gets hot.

4TB Internal HD

Tons of tutorials online, including the instructions that come with the enclosure.

It's super simple, literally open the enclosure, pop the drive in, plug it in to your xbox, and turn it on.

Grab this or this and put it in this.


I have that GST drive in a Silver version of that Enclosure. The fan on the enclosure is absolutely dead silent, but can be turned off. I expected it to make some noise (hence why I picked this enclosure with a fan on/off switch) but it is so silent it makes no difference. Its drowned out by the HDD. The HGST does make some noise, so I wouldn't recommend it if you have your Xbox in your room and are a silence freak. I'd also recommend getting a longer USB 3.0 cable like this. I had a spare Amazon Basics USB 3.0 extender lying around so I used that. They are really good quality.

Also, both drives have a 3 year warranty and are designed to be used in a NAS (basically designed to be on most of the time and super reliable).

Like I said there is no technical reason why that would need to be specified. Note that you never see motherboards advertise the maximum size of hard drives that can be connected to them.

Any of the reasons I can give you are conjecture. Maybe they get a lot of questions about the max drive size. Maybe you're right and it's the max size they tested with, though honestly the chances that the people writing the description have anything to do with the development or production of the device are slim. Maybe it's just a holdover from when 1.1 devices had a max size of 2tb, people have just been blindly putting that in the description for over a decade.

I suspect it's just meaningless. I was perhaps a little harsh saying it was for scamming now that I've looked into it and see that virtually all of them specify a max. Considering I currently have a 6tb hard drive in this enclosure I certainly wouldn't worry about them.