Help: Possible Hardware Failure

[emjay]

I wish I could help with your hardware problems, but I have no idea what that could be about, nor do I have any idea about monitoring software I'm afraid, but as to the last thing... when my PS4's hard drive started playing up I replaced it with a new one and bought a "ugreen USB HDD enclosure" (from amazon) to store the old one... it basically turns a regular hard drive into an external hard drive that can be plugged in and used via USB. Meant that I was able to reformat it (since I gave up trying to figure out how to interface with its PlayStation filesystem to recover stuff) and use it again as just a normal external drive for backup on my laptop (ie whatever was wrong with it before wasn't catastrophic, it was still usable afterwards). Pretty cool I thought... I was amazed that such a thing existed, and pretty cheap as well, about £15, though of course you'd need a hard drive as well. So just putting that out there as one option, but there are probably many others.