Are Sonnics External HDDS any good?

[Guiltyxz]

Need an external HDD for my PS4, I found a Sonnics 3tb on Amazon for not much more than a 2tb Toshiba Canvio, but are they any good?

 

Sonnics 3TB External Hard Drive USB 3.0 Compatible with XBOX ONE / PS4 / Windows PC / Mac

[da na]

Sonnics looks like a 3.5" HDD inside, prolly a White Label Seagate. The Toshiba one is a laptop HDD which is a lot slower, plus they are often lower binned (I have a similar Canvio Basics drive, 2tb, and when it was new it had 4 reallocated sectors)

I'd go with Sonnics, definitely

[BondiBlue]

Sonnics doesn't make the drive inside the enclosure, so there's no real way to tell what drive is actually inside it. It's a 3.5" desktop drive though, so it'll almost certainly be a bit better than the 2.5" drive inside the Toshiba Canvio you linked. Between these two I'd choose the Sonnics since it's better suited to what you want to use it for. The Toshiba wouldn't be bad, but it's definitely a slow option. 

24 minutes ago, Mel0nMan said:

(I have a similar Canvio Basics drive, 2tb, and when it was new it had 4 reallocated sectors)

Did you get a replacement? A new drive shouldn't have any reallocated sectors no matter how high or low end it is. 

[Chronified]

HDD are slow for loading games, even on PS4. I helped a friend pick up a budget 1TB SSD for <$100 and put it in a $10 Amazon enclosure for their games, ends up loading them faster than the internal HDD and he noticed texture pop-ins have reduced significantly.

 

If you're brave you can even go as far as replacing the HDD inside the PS4 outright and bypass the need for an external drive altogether, system boot+update times are cut significantly if you choose that route.

[Guiltyxz]

17 hours ago, Chronified said:

HDD are slow for loading games, even on PS4. I helped a friend pick up a budget 1TB SSD for <$100 and put it in a $10 Amazon enclosure for their games, ends up loading them faster than the internal HDD and he noticed texture pop-ins have reduced significantly.

 

If you're brave you can even go as far as replacing the HDD inside the PS4 outright and bypass the need for an external drive altogether, system boot+update times are cut significantly if you choose that route.

I initially wanted to replace the internal drive but you can only get 5400rpm 2.5in HDDs above 1tb. An SSD would be nice but I dont play my PS4 enough to justify it, only looking at these as I have £60 in Amazon credit with someone but I cant add to it