western digital my passport 4tb compatable with a ps4

Western digital my passport 4tb compatable with a ps4 Pc#

This is a total FAIL from WD.īTW, while I do not use the power supplies for any of my USB 3.0 hubs because they work fine with all the self-powered drives attached and even one USB powered one from WD.

I am not giving up one of my USB 3.0 ports just to have one drive attached. The 1TB model of this drive works fine, but this one can only work directly attached to a USB 3.0 port, no hubs or cable extenders allowed. I exchanged the drive for another at Costco. This includes UBS powered models like my 1TB My Passport Essential. All their other USB 3.0 drives work fine in the same configuration. It does not say “except for USB 3.0 hubs”. The package makes the claim it is USB 3.0. It’s easy for WD to say a hub is not recommended, but that is not a fair response. I understand how these products work at every level from the electrons, through the circuits, the protocols, the integration and the applications.

Western digital my passport 4tb compatable with a ps4 Pc#

I am a computer engineer with an electronics engineer education with 32 years in the computer profession doing everything from PC hardware, systems administration, networking, and business integration. NOTE: I posted this same response 4 days ago and it has been deleted. To me, this drive is a FAIL and it is going back to Costco for an exchange to see if it is a lemon or of this is par for this drive. Now these are the only things attached to the hub and it has a 2.5 amp switching PSU, which should be plenty of juice to drive two little hard drives. To make matters worse, when I attach this drive to the same hub as my 1TB My Passbook purchased a year ago it drops the 1TB off the hub.

I tried powered hub, non-powered hub, still no go. It seems to only want to work if connected directly to the USB 3.0 ports on my PC using the ridiculously short 12' ish cable. The only exception to this is my latest acquisition, the Western Digital 2TB My Passport 2 1/2' external hard drive.

All of them work through my two different kinds of USB 3.0 hubs without any problems. I have 32 External Hard Drives, 16 of them are USB 3.0 drives of 2TB & 3TB capacity made by either Western Digital or Seagate. It must be connected directly to the USB 3.0 port to work. The WD My Passport 2TB will not work with a USB 3.0 Hub.