How much time Fake pkgs take to install ?

[sonicswink]

Guys how long your game pkgs stay in installation state before they finishes and you start playing ? mine for example 17 GB (Dying light) game is taking more than two and half hours, the other day I installed COD MW remastered (46 GB) and it stayed almost the whole night. I think this really weird, my HDD is Hitachi 320gb external usb. I measured its speed and its like 20 mb/s.
I'm confused ...

 

[m0nadpr0xy]

The installation time depends on many factors like:
a) how fast is the write speed of the PS4 internal HDD
b) how fast can the PS4 read from you external HDD that contains the FPKG files
c) how is the state of both of the drives (healthy? does the external HDD overheat? etc..)
d) of course on the size of the FPKG game/application/theme
e) state of the USB ports on the PS4 (i.e. one of the ports on my PS4 is somehow acting a bit weird and is slower than the other)

And 20 mb/s is exactly what? 20 Megabit/s or 20 Megabyte/s? 20 Megabit/s is like really really slow. 20 Megabit/s converted to Megabyte/s is only just 2.4 Megabyte/s (short: 2.4 MB/s). So installing a almost 50 GB file with that speed is going to be a huge pain and will indeed take literally forever.

20 Megabyte/s is better but still slow for a USB HDD. Sounds like a USB 2.0 device. Is it USB 2.0? USB 3.0 should be way faster. And if you consider factor c) from the list above you can expect that the speed is going to be even lower. I have a few old 2.5" USB 3.0 HDDs that do quickly get hot when they operate long... the speed just dips down quickly from 105 Megabyte/s to around 60 - 80 Megabyte/s. So if your HDD is already so slow and overheats the speed dips down even lower thus leading to a even longer installation time.

 

[sonicswink]

Thx for the answer, First of all my HDD writing speed is 20 Megabytes/sec, b) My PS4 reads or detects my HDD about 1 to 2 seconds after I plug it, c-e) I think all of them are in excellent state even the USB ports.
I'm not sure if my USB of my HDD is 3.0, but it does show this when I plug it in my laptop that my HDD USB is 3.0 in notification tray.

But yesterday I managed to :
1- Recopy the target PKG to my HDD
2- Change the (micro-USB to USB) transfer cable (to other one that didn't come with the controller) [This cable is required to connect my HDD to my PS4]
3- plug it on the right port (previously I was plugging it on the left).
4- Rename the target fPKG (shorten its name)
5- removed any other pkg on root folder except the the target PKG.

Finally after doing this, I tried to install again and wow that was quite a difference. the installation time took a quarter than usual and even the error CE-36244-9 is just ... gone.

 

[m0nadpr0xy]

Great to hear!

Have you checked the HDD health using tools like HDDScan or CrystalDisk Info?

A thing I probably forgot yesterday. The more space is used up on a HDD the slower it gets. I had my old 1 TB HDDs filled up to the brim and the speed dropped to rates around max. 60 - 65 MB/s (speed when it is almost empty is above 100 MB/s). So of course moving all other files of your HDD helped quite a bit . And of course changing the cable can also help. The newer cable can be of better quality and isolation thus improving transfer speed and reducing signal disturbances.

The thing about the USB ports. The more often you use them by plugging in a device and removing it the more it wears out. So the more used port has a higher wear than the other one. Another thing is that some HDDs are very picky about USB ports. I have a WD 4 TB 2.5" external HDD. That thing is quite thicc and heavy. It won't properly spin up on the right port for some reason while it perfectly works on the left port.