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Seamonster

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A friend has bought a PS5 for their son, and plans to give it to them on their birthday on the 20th May…. Which is 9 days after the Instant Game Collection offer on PS Plus finishes.

 

Does anyone know if there’s a way for them to sign up to PS Plus in advance on the son’s account on their PS4, and claim the games so that they’ll still have them when they eventually sign into the PS5…?

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12 minutes ago, Seamonster said:

A friend has bought a PS5 for their son, and plans to give it to them on their birthday on the 20th May…. Which is 9 days after the Instant Game Collection offer on PS Plus finishes.

 

Does anyone know if there’s a way for them to sign up to PS Plus in advance on the son’s account on their PS4, and claim the games so that they’ll still have them when they eventually sign into the PS5…?


Pretty sure you can do it all through the web, or the app. 
 

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I’ve just checked the app and if you go to Store > burger menu > redeem code you can add your PS Plus code(s) to your desired account. 

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teddymeow

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Grabbed this from the PS Blog:

 

@SeamonsterMight be worth telling them to set it up, sign into PS+ and redeem through the console. They can also update the firmware and download a couple of the games so there's something extra to play after the awesomeness that is AstroBot. 😀

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Bushtopher

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I’m trying to backup my PS5 to an external USB hard drive. 

 

The hard drive is formatted and recognised for downloading PS4 games and all works fine. But when I go to ‘backup your PS5’ in the settings it says that there’s no external storage connected. 
 

I’ve tried different USB ports but still no luck. 
 

Anyone else had this or know how to fix please?

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teddymeow

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12 minutes ago, Bushtopher said:

 

Anyone else had this or know how to fix please?

 

My external HDD is fine for loading games from the minute I boot it up but doing anything in the settings takes an age to show the contents of it before you can do anything.

 

Try going in and out of the storage option a few times to see if that makes the games on it appear. Hopefully then you'll be able to do what you need to do.

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1 hour ago, Bushtopher said:

I’m trying to backup my PS5 to an external USB hard drive. 

 

The hard drive is formatted and recognised for downloading PS4 games and all works fine. But when I go to ‘backup your PS5’ in the settings it says that there’s no external storage connected. 
 

I’ve tried different USB ports but still no luck. 
 

Anyone else had this or know how to fix please?

 

If the hard drive id formatted for PS4 and PS5 games as external storage, it can't be used for the backup. I used a pen drive plugged in the front and that worked fine. Stupid Sony. 

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Bushtopher

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Just now, Vorgot said:

 

If the hard drive id formatted for PS4 and PS5 games as external storage, it can't be used for the backup. I used a pen drive plugged in the front and that worked fine. Stupid Sony. 


That’s ridiculous! Do you know which format I should use to allow it to be used for backups?

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Vorgot

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Just now, Bushtopher said:


That’s ridiculous! Do you know which format I should use to allow it to be used for backups?

 

It has to be a different drive. If you set a drive as a 'game' external storage it gets a special status of some kind. So you need a blank drive. It's so stupid. Just going to double check it on mine

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Alex W.

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“Extended storage” drives are treated differently by the system for reasons that aren’t terribly clear. They can only contain game installs/DLC and nothing else, which obviously rules out a backup. Conversely, no other kind of drive can contain a “live” game install. Curious what the data structure is there.

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Vorgot

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6 minutes ago, Alex W. said:

“Extended storage” drives are treated differently by the system for reasons that aren’t terribly clear. They can only contain game installs/DLC and nothing else, which obviously rules out a backup. Conversely, no other kind of drive can contain a “live” game install. Curious what the data structure is there.

Me too, but don't want to plug it into my Mac as it will start putting spotlight files everywhere that might cause a problem, even if it's readable in the first place.

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Bushtopher

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6 hours ago, Vorgot said:

Just tried it. Says no drive attached when the one for games blatantly is. Stick a pen drive in, no issues. Madness


Can’t get it to recognise any of my external hard drives or pen drives to do a backup. Mind if I ask which pen drive you have? Do you put it in a USB port at the front or back?

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13 minutes ago, Bushtopher said:


Can’t get it to recognise any of my external hard drives or pen drives to do a backup. Mind if I ask which pen drive you have? Do you put it in a USB port at the front or back?

 

I put it in the front, it's just a bog standard Sandisk USB stick formatted to FAT32. 

 

The backup itself is not the best mechanism to use, it takes a snapshot of all game saves and system settings, you can't pick out the ones you want. If you restore, you have to restore the whole lot, you can't pick and choose. It's a daft system that seems to want to push people to PS+, which is fine for me but not for my 2 sons.

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Bushtopher

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On 14/02/2023 at 23:44, Vorgot said:

 

I put it in the front, it's just a bog standard Sandisk USB stick formatted to FAT32. 

 

The backup itself is not the best mechanism to use, it takes a snapshot of all game saves and system settings, you can't pick out the ones you want. If you restore, you have to restore the whole lot, you can't pick and choose. It's a daft system that seems to want to push people to PS+, which is fine for me but not for my 2 sons.


Thanks @Vorgot - I ordered a standard USB stick and that worked. Will probably cave and sign up to PS+ at some point as that would definitely be much easier. 

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I have the uncommon problem of being subscribed to PS plus on a different account to the one I use (mostly for language reasons) and I’m too far down the road to switch now, so I can’t back up my PS5 saves.

 

Which leads me to a question that I know has been asked a million times, but I still somehow haven’t processed the answer. If I take out a one month subscription on my actual ‘in use’ account, send the saves up to the cloud, and then let the subscription lapse until such time as I might need to access them - will they still be there?

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Stanley

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I’m constantly running out of space for games these days, have SSD’s ever had any really good deals? Amazon currently have the WD Black 1TB with heat sink for a£109 or the 2TB for £217, still seems pretty expensive despite the saving :unsure:

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I got the 2TB WD (SN850X) directly from WD for £170 back in November. It’s gone up since then. Looks like the Kingston KC3000 is about the cheapest good SSD at the moment, it’s going for around £160 if you shop around but you’ll need to get a heat sink too for £5-10. 

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2 minutes ago, Stanley said:

This one looks quite good, but would it need a heat sink? The q/a comments say it doesn’t but I’m not sure.

 

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Kingston-Renegade-gamers-enthusiasts-high-power/dp/B09K36S11S/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?crid=1C46MKV3HTIKU&keywords=kingston%2Bssd&qid=1676796592&sprefix=kingston%2Caps%2C84&sr=8-4&th=1&psc=1

 

Samsung 980 PRO SSD with Heatsink 2TB PCIe Gen 4 NVMe M.2 Internal Solid State Hard Drive, Heat Control, Max Speed, PS5 Compatible, MZ-V8P1T0CW https://amzn.eu/d/bjis7Sy

 

I purchased this 2TB one recently with heatsink for £200.

 

Now it's £182.

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