Smart and useful application comes with Sony’s External Hard Drive for your peace of mind and ease of use!
Each application is available in a zipped format. Download and extract it in a proper location, such as Desktop, before installation.

  1. Download Sony Hard Disk Controller Drivers
  2. Download Sony Hard Disk Controller Driver

Data Transfer Accelerator* The application doesn´t support Windows 10

Phone and Tablet Apps The best of what Sony has to offer on iOS or Android. Download our apps. Windows 7 drivers and software downloads. SATA AHCI Controller. Insert the USB Disk into your locked/target computer. Reboot your locked/target computer from the new burned Lazesoft WinPE boot disk; On the home page of Lazesoft Recovery Suite boot disk, click Drivers, after boot disk is loaded. Load the driver file,.inf, from the the extracted the RAID controller driver files folder.

Download Sony Hard Disk Controller Drivers

  • file name: Data_Transfer_Accelerator.zip
  • Size: 10.2 MB (10,724,452 bytes)

Application Updates

DateVersionDescription
2017/7/63.4.3.0Improved the operation quality.
2016/7/213.03.01- Improved the operational quality for uninstallation.
- Editorial correction in the help file.

Approx. 2 times faster data transfer to the External Hard Drive!

  • Windows-compatible application to accelerate reading and writing data from/to the External Hard Drive.
  • Support faster data transfer approx. 2 times to the External Hard Drive.
  • With just installing the application, high-speed is realized by optimizing and efficient way of transferring data to the External Hard Drive.

*Notes:

  • - The transfer speed/time may vary, depending on the number/size of files and PC performance.
  • - The following graphs show the results obtained under specific measurement conditions and there is no guarantee that the same results will be obtained in all users' operating environments.

*Measurement conditions:

Tested under Sony measurement conditions, as of Aug, 2013
<Measurement method>
Measured the time to copy files* (2MB x 250 files = 500MB) stored on the PC's internal hard drive to the External Hard Drive
*Document, PDF, e-mail, etc.

PCCPU: Intel Core i7 640M 2.80GHz, RAM: 4.00GB, OS: Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
Internal Drive: Seagate ST9500325AS(NTFS Format)
External Hard DriveHD-EG5 (NTFS Format)

Password Protection Manager

  • file name: Password_Protection_Manager.zip
  • Size: 14.4 MB (15,160,302 bytes)

Application Updates

Download Sony Hard Disk Controller Driver

DateVersionDescription
2017/7/62.1.4.0Improved the operation quality.

Secure your important data in/or away from home

  • Windows-compatible application to protect data on the External Hard Drive with a password.
  • Use the 256-bit AES encryption algorithm to protect data with strong security.
  • Allow you to use with not only your own PC but also other PCs, such as your friend's, to read and write data on the External Hard Drive by unlocking it. You can also divide to a protected data area and a non-protected data area.

Notes:

  • - The External Hard Drive cannot be used with other CE devices such as TV after it's locked by using this application.
  • - Please do not use this application together with other encryption applications for the External Hard Drive.

Backup Manager

  • file name: Backup_Manager.zip
  • Size: 45.8 MB (48,069,341 bytes)

Application Updates

DateVersionDescription
2017/7/61.0.50.0Improved the operation quality.

Easy and secure backup for your peace of mind

  • Windows-compatible application to backup data from a PC’s internal hard drive to the External Hard Drive.
  • Data on a PC's internal hard drive can be periodically (automatically) backed up to the External Hard Drive. By recognizing/backing up only modified/added data for minimizing necessary capacity, the backup time will be reduced. (Incremental backup method)

Note:

  • This application doesn't support backing up 'Favorite' of Microsoft Edge.

FAT32 Formatter

  • file name: FAT32_Formatter.zip
  • Size: 8.27 MB (8,678,089 bytes)

Application Updates

DateVersionDescription
2017/7/63.1.2.0Improved the operation quality.
Download Sony Hard Disk Controller driver

The External Hard Drive formatter for using with devices which support FAT32-formatted external hard drives

  • Windows-compatible application to format the External Hard Drive to FAT32.
  • Format the External Hard Drive from NTFS to FAT32 for using with PS3, etc.

*Notes:

  • - If a device with its own formatting function, please follow the corresponding instruction to format.
  • - Reformatting to FAT32 will delete ALL data stored on the External Hard Drive.

System Requirements

For ALL applications;

OSWindows 10 Home (32bit/64bit), Windows 10 Pro (32bit/64bit), Windows 8.1 (32bit/64bit ), Windows 8.1 Pro (32bit/64bit ) ,Windows 7 (32-bit/64-bit) [Home Basic, Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate] Service Pack 1 or later
*Data Transfer Accelerator doesn´t support Windows 10
DisplayHigh Color (16-bit or higher),800x600 or higher
Memory1 GB (or higher if recommended by your OS)
CPU1 GHz processor (or higher if recommended by your OS)