JustAnotherFarang

I am having a little trouble locating this Seagate 2 tb drive model number STBX2000401. I have seen similar specced drives but with different model numbers and I have read that some of these other drives do not work with the PS4.

Has anyone seen one of these on their internet travels in Thailand

JAF

Why would you buy a external drive and then dismantle it, rather than just buy an internal drive in the first place?

Take out the 500 gb drive from the ps4, replace it with the 2gb drive and then put the old 500 gb drive back into the casing to use as an external drive on my pc

JAF

Cheers MoD

I overlooked that so thanks for the heads up. I checked out Invade IT and as much as I appreciate their customer service, Lazadas prices are hard to beat. Today they have a 10 per cent off offer which makes the 2tb drive shown here ( http://www.lazada.co...303-181343.html ) to be approx 3500 bht. Think I will order this and let you know how I go on.

JAF

http://www.gamefaqs.com/boards/691087-playstation-4/69429669

Judging by what this guy says it can take upto 6TB drives albeit externally. I want to keep the drive within the ps4 case so the 2tb drive on Lazada is ideal and a perfect match. But for a small price increase, the 3TB dive would be great, just need to find out if I can fit it in internally.

JAF

Did you take a look at the drives available on Lazada. I want to know if the 3tb drive would work as it is just a little more expensive but better value for money I think.

JAF

I think the PS4 only supports game saves with a USB hard drive . U need to swap it over with the 500gb inside the Ps4 . take a look at this first http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2014-how-to-cheaply-upgrade-your-ps4-to-2tb

Thanks Daniel that makes interesting reading. I had a look on Lazada and seen this drive :-

http://www.lazada.co.th/seagate-new-backup-plus-slim-2tb-usb-30-red-stdr2000303-181343.html

Seems to have a similar id number and its fairly priced so iof this is the drive I will buy it and install it in my PS4

Also seen this 3tb drive for a little more money

http://www.lazada.co.th/seagate-expansion-hde-30-tb-35-usb-30-black-313164.html

Cheers

JAF

HI Jim

That is a very very cool setup. I would love to have a setup like that for Drive Club on the PS4 but I dont think Lazada have a steering wheel for the PS4 yet. If they do I will have to pick one up and then pick your brains for the details on how to set it up for myself.

JAF

PS I have joined your group on Facebook, look forward to getting to know you and the guys online

hi guys

I have a ps 4 system and have managed to fill up the 500gb hard drive with games already. Seen that they are selling a Sony WD Elements 1tb external hardisk on Lazada for 2,900 bht. My question is can I plug this into my ps4 as an external drive and run games from it or would I need to disassemble it and fit it inside.

Many thanks

JAF

I have Thai PS4 and a fake USA address and no usa cc.

I bought psn money from amazon with my homecountry c.c and usa address (myus / shipito etc) and it works.

Games are cheaper, membership is cheaper (PSN HK is cheaper actually).

You can download all games in Thailand no problem.

Great thanks- any game recommendations- i buying it FIFA 15, new call of duty, aliens,

I have a physical copy of fifa 15 for the ps4 that I want to sell. Only played it once so it is in as good as new condition. Retail price is 1,500 bht but I will sell it for 900 bht. PM me if you are interested

JAF

But were you aware of the fact that the controller was a copy before purchasing it ?

No I was not aware that it was a clone. Came in a microsoft box with spanish writing on it but on closer inspection the microsoft seals where missing. I only realised this later.

JAF

Yes there is an xbox clone controller. I bought one from Fasttech.com and one of the shoulder buttons became faulty. I contacted them for a replacement but was told it was outside the replacement period of 3 months and they then discouraged me from returning it for repair by insisting I pay for shipment to and from Hong Kong. Needless to say I now avoid Fasttech because of their shabby customer services.

JAF

New to the PS4 but I am playing Destiny, Fifa 15, The Last of Us and Drive Club

My psn id is MonoXimian

No free trial of the game using PSN asia network but I took the plunge and downloaded it digitally last night for 1,300bht as I was craving a little racing fun. First impressions are very good with sumptuous graphics and exhilarating speeds from the very start. I have only raced for an hour or so around the India tracks but looking forward to racing the other locations today after they have finished downloading.

I also started a Drive Club if anyone is interested in joining. It is called Thaiger Expats. My playstation id is MonoXimian

Cheers

JAF

Hi Guys

I got my ps4 machine today and all works well although I have yet to delve too deep into it, just a few games of Fifa 15 which was quite impressive. But I decided that I wanted to buy a PSN card (USA region) and checked out Amazon only to find that I must be a resident and have to have a us billing address. I was going to pay by paypal but that account is linked to Bangkok Bank. Is there any way around this as I do not really want to by an Asian PSN card because of the poor choice of free downloadable games.

Thanks for your advice as always

JAF

Often what we don't know we will speculate about but the smartest and wisest people will often add "what do know, we are just guessing". Sadly some people become enveloped within conspiracy theories and the accompanying hyperbole that even when presented with rational arguments as to why they are misguided, will just choose to ignore the obvious and look for other reasons why they are right when they are probably wrong..

Brenda Leyland did not make one or two casual tweets regarding this case, in fact she made well over 4000 tweets (4,625 to be exact, the vast majority using the #McCann hashtag). She participated in a forum over a 4 year period that she herself called "a cesspit" where other users would add their tuppence worth, often in the most vile and disgusting ways. In all fairness, she did reply to some of these vile and disgusting tweets by asking why people would find it funny that a little girl had been kidnapped and probably killed. Alas, it did not stop the vilifcation and over time she also made many tweets which would be considered harmful, insensitive and offensive towards the McCanns.

To say she was obsessed with the McCanns would be an understatement. She would tweet about the couple’s various court and select committee appearances for more than three hours straight. She would spend entire mornings or evenings conversing with other sceptics, arguing with McCann supporters, or just spouting her views on the latest angle to the case. When it came to light that people where looking to "out" her, she tried to deflect attention away from herself by dismissing the fact that people were now aware of her location. Only when Martin Brunt added her as a friend on Twitter did the penny finally drop that the show was finally over and days later she deleted her twitter account.

For those who might have the time or inclination to know more of what she actually said in all of her tweets, I have included a website that includes a link to her archived tweets.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/patricksmith/read-the-deleted-tweets-brenda-leyland-sent-the-mccanns#3cbtn8f

Whilst I find it sad that someone would take their own life, I think in many ways it goes to show that when we are on the receiving end of the media spotlight and public vitriole, we too may well wonder where to turn for support. Some will stand up, shout and scream to all and sundry.....others may not be so brave and seek other ways to end the scrutiny.

JAF

This was Brenda Ryans open apology to the McCanns for the pain and anguish that she had caused them. It is both apt and right that everyone reading this forum should hear what she had to say.

"Dear Kate and Gerry McCann

I write this apology to you with a very heavy heart, a heart that knows now how much pain and suffering I caused you, your family and friends by allowing a forum to exist that was none other than a “cess-pit”.

I had no right to stand in judgement of a family who are bearing the most inconceivable pain ever, the loss of a child and a family who need people to help not hinder.

You, your family and your friends did NOT deserve to have your lives torn apart by malicious posts written on a forum I hosted and by posts written by myself. Even though I had no control of what those people wrote I did hold the ultimate power to delete. My failure to do that simple action will never be excusable, along with my failure to control a rabid situation which added to the pain you, as parents of a missing child, were already suffering.

I know deep down, no matter how many times I say “I’m sorry”, it will never take that pain you both must have felt and still continue to feel if you read those posts and that, on my part, is unforgiveable.

One day I hope you find it in your heart to forgive a stupid blinkered woman, who should have known better, for her sins. A woman who allowed her own gut-instinct and feelings to rule her judgement, instead of allowing the facts and evidence which was evident to prove that your daughter is a missing child and a child that needs to be found.

I don’t expect your forgiveness because to be honest if I was standing in your shoes at this precise moment, I would probably find it hard to forgive a person who caused my family so much unnecessary pain.

My selfish actions gave a platform and an arena to a man who is beyond contempt in my eyes. A man who will stop at nothing in his attempt to tarnish the family and friends of a missing child with his horrendous accusations and his actions that cause as much pain to a child’s family, ever imaginable. A man who will stop at nothing in order to satisfy his own insatiable quest to inflict as much pain and suffering as he can on the family of a missing child. A man that proclaims he cares for your daughter but leads people to believe that Madeleine is not a findable living child.

Whether he would have gained such an audience if the3arguidos had never been created I don’t know. And for allowing this man to have free access to a forum that caused you so much pain, I sincerely apologise to you both and realise my actions were so wrong. And knowing full well that my actions of allowing him to post on that forum gained him popularity, and for that action I can only offer you both my unreservedly sincere regrets and profound apologies.

As they say hindsight is such a wonderful thing and when I say I wish I could turn back the clock I truly mean it. If I could have had access to a crystal ball for just one split second back in November 2007, no way would I have ever clicked on that submit button that created that monster of a forum.

Your daughter deserved better than that, you deserved better than that. She deserved my attention to be focussed on helping to find her not condemning innocent people and standing in judgement without knowing all the facts. So many forum myths were created by that forum, and I want to dispel those myths by writing about the truth and by trying to put right the so many wrongs I did to your family.

The truth is in the files and definitely not in someone’s mind or what they think is the truth.

I failed to see that even though you were bearing the hardest pain any parent could ever imagine, you still found it in yourselves to help the plight of missing people. You ran, cycled and raised awareness and money for Charity. You campaigned tirelessly for Amber Alert and instead of giving you credit I gave you condemnation. You both did not deserve that.

I have read your book Kate, and I feel as if, through your words, I have got to know the real Kate McCann and not the Kate McCann the media at times wanted to portray, especially the Portuguese media. I have felt your pain and shared your laughter, especially at you running to the top of that hill in New Zealand.

I have cried so many tears at reading how desperate you both were for information and news about your daughter’s whereabouts and please may you one day both find it in your hearts to forgive me.

My jaw has dropped to the floor when I read about the questioning, the conduct of the Police, how unprofessional they were at times, and the information you told us all about children being molested whilst on holiday.

I close by saying, may your pain end soon with Madeleine being found alive and returned home to you both. Where Madeleine may once again be in the warmth, comfort and love of her family a place where she should never have been taken from. May God listen to your pleas and answer your prayers soon.

I truly am sorry for adding to your pain and maybe one day, you both, will find it in your hearts to forgive me.

Bren Ryan"

I've read up heaps on it and much of the campaign against them is based on gossip and here-say with a bit of pseudo science thrown in.

The Portuguese police reports on the investigation into Madeleine's disappearance is probably at the center of many of the allegations, or maybe just a jump off point for them. http://www.mccannfiles.com/id315.html

Not gossip or hearsay by internet trolls but the opinions of all of the police officers who were involved in the investigation and their official conclusions

Not to cast any aspersions about the portuguese police investigation but why have the UK police not issued any warrants and/or extradited the McCanns if their case is so conclusive. If I recall, the UK police have seen this so called evidence and found it to be unsatisfactory and without merit. Maybe you think that the UK police are trying to protect the parents because...........oh, you are right, this is getting very silly.

The Portuguese case is based on hearsay and misinformation which was released to the media in an attempt to muddy the waters so that this case did not reflect badly upon their investigation and the tourist industry on the whole. If there was one iota of truth in it all then the UK police would not hesitate to arrest the parents or at least bring them in and hold them for questioning. To suggest otherwise is preposterous and not worthy of any further debate for fear of feeding the trolls.

Of course I could be wrong and they could be guilty but I will leave that to those that have the real qualifications and years of expertise to decide. May I suggest that you too could consider the parents innocent until proven guilty and stop wasting your time frequenting websites that make all these spurious assumptions based on detective skills gleaned from television programs such as CSI and Miss Marple.

JAF

So here are Brenda Leyland's tweets

http://greptweet.com/u/sweepyface/sweepyface.txt

Although it is being reported that she abused the McCanns she had no contact with them and I don't believe that either of them are on Twitter. What she actually seems to be doing is pointing out all of the discrepancies and lies the McCanns have told about the case on her Twitter feed. From what I've read of it (there's a lot of Tweets and it goes on for nearly a year) she is openly discussing the case with other people on Twitter so she may well be entitled to do this under free speech. The way the media are reporting it and using the "I am entitled to do that" without context makes it seems like she was a dangerous person who was sending the McCanns abuse directly and showing no remorse for it, but it doesn't appear to be the case when you read through what she was discussing.

What you fail to address is that when the media attention turned upon her, she chose to kill herself rather than accept the consequences of her actions, which where undeniable. So therefore we can rightly assume that whilst she had anonymity she was more than happy to discuss the details of a case that she knows so little about.......... but once the spotlight turned upon her she was not willing to have her life undergo microscopic inspection. Dare I also suggest Kun Matt that if you ever encountered a tragic situation you too would not want your personal and private life exposed in front of the media and the keyboard jackals who would bay for your blood. There is such a thing as innocent until proven guilty and we should respect that fact before casting further aspersions.

JAF

Have I been casting aspersions? All I have been saying all day is to do some further reading on the McCanns and not only see them as the UK media has to portray them.

Have you ever read the Portuguese police files on the case?

Kun Matt

Here is the definition of aspersion:-

as·per·sion (-spûr zh n, -sh n) n. 1. a. An unfavorable or damaging remark; slander: Don't cast aspersions on my honesty. b. The act of defaming or slandering.

You have said the following on this forum:-

"The McCanns are probably the worst people on the planet. Not trolling. Just stating a fact."

"Go and read anything they have said and done since that night and I guarantee you will find some abhorrent and deplorable quotes and acts from them every time."

"the McCanns have lied about everything surrounding the night Maddie went missing and they have deliberately hindered the investigation as much as they could to stop the Portuguese police finding the truth and to prolong the case so their fund could carry on collection donations to fund their lifestyle and not the search as it was intended for"

These are just some of the aspersions that you have made hoping to convince me and anyone else that you know something more than we do.

The interesting thing is that if you chose to google the name of the woman who killed herself you would find accusations that she was a prostitute and that her partner was convicted of paying under aged girls for sex, otherwise known as paedophilia/hebrophilia activity. What strange bed fellows you have chosen to align yourself with Kun Matt, be careful that others dont reach for their own conclusions about you too.

JAF

So here are Brenda Leyland's tweets

http://greptweet.com/u/sweepyface/sweepyface.txt

Although it is being reported that she abused the McCanns she had no contact with them and I don't believe that either of them are on Twitter. What she actually seems to be doing is pointing out all of the discrepancies and lies the McCanns have told about the case on her Twitter feed. From what I've read of it (there's a lot of Tweets and it goes on for nearly a year) she is openly discussing the case with other people on Twitter so she may well be entitled to do this under free speech. The way the media are reporting it and using the "I am entitled to do that" without context makes it seems like she was a dangerous person who was sending the McCanns abuse directly and showing no remorse for it, but it doesn't appear to be the case when you read through what she was discussing.

What you fail to address is that when the media attention turned upon her, she chose to kill herself rather than accept the consequences of her actions, which where undeniable. So therefore we can rightly assume that whilst she had anonymity she was more than happy to discuss the details of a case that she knows so little about.......... but once the spotlight turned upon her she was not willing to have her life undergo microscopic inspection. Dare I also suggest Kun Matt that if you ever encountered a tragic situation you too would not want your personal and private life exposed in front of the media and the keyboard jackals who would bay for your blood. There is such a thing as innocent until proven guilty and we should respect that fact before casting further aspersions.

JAF

How much did you pay for your new drive and where did you purchase it from ?

JAF

I love the fact that I will get a version of it to play by subscribing to PS+. There is not a great choice of racing games other than Need For Speed so I am looking forward to trying it out. Will get my machine next week and will be kicking back with a few friends playing Fifa 15, Destiny and the Last of Us.

JAF

Hi Guys

I decided to buy the japanese PS4 with camera and Fifa 14 that was advertised for under 16,000 bht on Lazada. I have also bought a few games too:-

Fifa 15 (zone 3/asia)

Infamous First Light (asia)

Destiny (zone 3/asia)

The Last of Us (not to sure about which region but its from Lazada)

I have read that its best to set it up with a US PS+ account which I would have to buy from Amazon. But then I read that this might mean that I cannot access downloadable content for the games that I have purchased above as they are asian versions and would need an asian PS+ account. I am also worried that if I set it up incorrectly I might find it hard to play with other players online here or in Australia.

Is there anyone who could give me some advice as to what to do to get the best out of my new machine and which ps+ account is most suitable

Thanks for your advice and assistance

JAF

PS I am also going to buy a PS Vita in the next few weeks to take advantage of the ps+ account and the free downloadable games.

Dont get Japanese ps4, sure it must be cheaper but you wont be able to claim warranty from sony thai and south east Asia, should something go wrong. Get one from thailand or other countries in the region

Thanks for the advice but I am buying it from Lazada Thailand and will get at least a 12 month warranty.