Kinhank 2TB External Hard Drive, Retro Game Console with 120000+ Games, HDD for Laptop/PC/Windows/Mac OS, Compatible with Most Emulators, 2 Controllers, USB 3.0

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This HDD comes preloaded with Batocera and a ton of games. Batocera runs with a Linux operating system, so if you’re using Windows like most of the world, then it’s not the easiest process to boot it up. It seems most people in the reviews had a tough time just getting this thing to boot properly, and I’ll just talk about what I did to get it to work. It took me a while to be able to boot into Batocera, and I was ready to give up and return this thing, but I finally got it working on my HP laptop and a mini pc. Once in your device’s bios, I had to disable secure boot, enable legacy mode, and change the boot priority so number 1 was USB hard disk. I would also make sure this is the only thing plugged into a USB port just to be safe (so no flash drives or controllers). I didn’t get into a ton of gameplay, but most of what I tried worked well. The MAME section was a little hit or miss. I’ve used RetroArch before, and if the emulator (whether it’s MAME 2003 or 2010 or whatever) doesn’t match the romset, then it’s not going to work. I’m not sure if that’s what’s happening here when some games don’t load up at all. Most of the negative reviews on here were about not being able to boot up the device and I wanted to share what I did to get it working. It comes with a tiny instruction manual, which was incredibly useless. It’s no surprise people have trouble with this thing, but I hope my experience can help someone.

The actual HDD itself seems to boot up fine at first. Just boot into your BIOS settings (usually by repeatedly pressing one of the F-keys on your keyboard when the PC is being turned on), change the boot priority to an "external USB" and reset the PC. It takes a few minutes to boot up. It uses EmulationStation/Batocera as the frontend. The issue is that none of the actual games work at all. Every time you try to play a game, it literally just freezes. I tried reflashing Batocera on a separate SSD I had sitting around, and it still didn't work. I believe that the actual Batocera install on the Kinhank HDD is corrupted, meaning that even if you reinstall it on a separate SSD or HDD, it will still refuse to function properly. This greatly upset me, as I bought it specifically to turn my mini PC into an emulation console. I actually ended up just using Linux Mint with the DIG frontend instead, which thankfully works flawlessly (which proved to me that it was 100% the HDD that was at fault, and not my PC).

Let me start off by stating the primary reason why I gave this a 3-star instead of a 4 or 5 star review. The included USB cable on my unit is bad. I wasted just about 2 hours of my time trying to figure out why the drive was not being recognized by the UFEI BIOS on my PC. Tried re-plugging the drive and swapping USB ports with same failed result. I was contemplating the upcoming hassle of having to repackage and return the product for being defective when it dawned on me that I should try a different cable. I had to dig out one of my portable external HDDs and borrow the cable from it - the cable in question has the wide, thin USB3 "micro B" style connector on it. While this style of device-side connector is typical for small form factor portable external HDDs, it's not in common use for much else; I did not have a cable of this type in my spare cable box. After swapping the cables around, I was able to get the drive to boot after making the appropriate BIOS adjustments. The cable that came with the drive is not very well made. The wires are thin and I can feel them through the insulation. The connectors on each end seemed to be OK. The bad cable is really the only major negative I can cite for this setup, everything else is either positive or neutral. To summarize: The Good: - Included HDD is of decent quality, made by Western Digital - one of their "Blue" series drives, I think. Not high end, but not junk either. - Batocera (the emulator UI / device and game selection software) is set up properly for the most part. - More games installed then you could ever hope to play in a normal lifetime. Dozens of console/computer/hardware emulators. - I purchased the variant that came with two controllers. They are kinda cheap but they work. Given that I only paid around $10 extra and got two wireless controllers for that, I can't complain. Also, everything (HDD, cable, 2x controllers) was packaged in a nice hard case - it in itself is worth at least $10. The Bad: - Only one thing, really - the defective USB cable. The Ugly: - At present I'm using a "gaming" laptop PC as my primary platform, and almost always run it with an external monitor. This configuration was not recognized by Batocera - there was no way I could get it to run using my external monitor (was not listed in the Batocera video options), nor could I get it to use the external monitor audio. - The KinHanK cassette tape label on the HDD enclosure is kinda cheesy. - Given the hassle I had getting my system to boot off this drive, I have not had a chance yet to really explore in depth how everything is set up, what games are available (esp. for the more obscure hardware). Others have complained that some of the games and software is not quite properly set up. I'm not saying that anything is -wrong-, only that I've yet to confirm that it is mostly-right (or not). Final verdict: 4 stars at least (and maybe 5) if it had worked 'out of the box'. 3 stars is what I gave it due to the time I wasted debugging the faulty cable issue.

I tried both of my computers and 3 laptops. I tried it 3 different ways that you tube had on and it never booted. Once it wiped out by password and I had to reset my whole account! But I not returning it. I'll try some more. If I get it to work, I'll rewrite this review. If not, maybe a friend can get it to work! But for now, I'll have to rate it as low as possible. The usb lights up so I don't think it's a hard drive problem. But until I see it work , I can't rate it any higher!

I want to say that the Kinhank 2TB with 2 Controllers is better than the Kinhank 500GB Version. I think that the 120,000 Games for £123 it is Very Good Value for Monry. It would make a Very Good Present for a Loved One. However, if you are Perfectionist I would Hoghly Recommend The PlayStation 5 Slim Console With a Disc Version and with a 4TB Heatsink Expansion Memory with a Cooler Fan.

like it when get the thing to work Win 10 go to setting then update then recover start pc up give you the icon start usb pick then os should load. at least when starting pc be back in the window then repeat using the game usb hard drive