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rafaqat

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I took the side off mine and had a quick hoover round. It seems quieter but I can still hear the fans when playing BLOPS 3 and Rocket League. That's normal right? I can't remember if it was a totally silent machine when I first got it.

Got a link from Sony to diagnose problems and in the email with the link it says they'll replace if it can't be fixed. Although I suspect they haven't read the bi where I say my ps4 is older than 12 months.

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Pob

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I finally got round to upgrading my PS4 hard drive to 2TB.

Surprisingly, I didn't break anything or have any bits left over. The 500gb drive will be handy for my Xbox One too. :)

I'm curious what you mean by this - do you mean you'll put it back into the external caddy and use it as a second HDD for the Xbone, connected via USB?

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Static build up caused by a vacuum cleaner can damage electronics.

No you'll be fine. You're still moving the same dusk particles, exchanging the same electrons, whether you're sucking or blowing from an internal fan, vacuum cleaner or air can.

If you're at all worried just leave the power cable plugged in, but turned off.

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MrSpiggott

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But a vacuum cleaner generates static. An air can does not.

The vacuum cleaner becomes statically charged because of all the different materials being dragged inside it. The charge wont travel from the vacuum to the PS4, it has no way of getting there.

Here's a very basic explanation of how static is formed.

When one material touches another the outer atoms physically bond together, but since they are made of different types of atoms there is an electrochemical potential imbalance. This is usually equalized by the material with the weaker electron boundaries shedding electrons until everything is balanced again. When the two materials separate, these electrons are often left behind. So the material that has lost electrons gains charge a +ve charge and the material that has gained an electron gains a -ve charge. And so it continues with each contact increasing the charge.

Edit. That reads horribly. Never try to explain a complex theory in a 30 second forum post. If anyone's still interested I recommend doing a google search on the Triboelectric effect.

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I took this stuff to degree level and didn't know that. I just remember years ago "special vacuums", or perhaps purveyors of compressed air, mentioned that the nozzle coming into contact with printers or your PC would damage it.

Another myth slain, perhaps.

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I took this stuff to degree level and didn't know that. I just remember years ago "special vacuums", or perhaps purveyors of compressed air, mentioned that the nozzle coming into contact with printers or your PC would damage it.

Another myth slain, perhaps.

That's kind of true, but blown out of proportions. The nozzle will probably have a charge from all the particles flowing past it. If you physically touched it against your CPU this charge could jump, but you'd be amazingly unlucky to cause any damage. I haven't blown a device in 25 years of using freezer spray and compressed air.

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Same here. Never had a shock off an aerosol.

I'm fully aware of how static is generated, and I'm also fully aware that static can affect a computer, even if only in close proximity rather than physically touching. I've had enough "blue bolt" static shocks, and the burns from them, to know.

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I'm curious what you mean by this - do you mean you'll put it back into the external caddy and use it as a second HDD for the Xbone, connected via USB?


In absence of an answer, i would say yes, thats what i did. If you opened the caddy carefully to get out the 2TB drive for your PS4,you can slot the old PS4 drive back into the caddy and it clips back up fine, attach to your xbox one via USB and your done. The xbox one recognises it as an external drive, can't remember if you have to format it first tho.
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You're backing up onto the drive you're installing?

If its anything like the ps3, first thing it'll do is format the drive. Bye bye backup.

You need two drives really.

Hmm, really? I thought it was too easy.

I do have a NAS with USB ports. Can I plug that into my PS4 and use that for the backup? I guess I'd need a male-to-male USB lead?

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No,you can't. The USB port on your NAS is for plugging drives (or possibly printers, TV tuners, etc.) into - not for something else to use the NAS as a hard drive.

Even if you could, the PS4 would wipe it.

Thanks. So not only do I need an external USB drive just to carry the backup, it needs to not have any data I want to keep on it, as the PS4 will wipe it when backing up onto it?

Seems like the easiest option is to 'borrow' a second one of those Seagate drives from Argos then return it when I'm done.

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