I’m considering buying some extra storage space for my PS5. Last time I was out of town, my partner tried to play a game and they couldn’t, because I deleted it to make room. They went to download it but it was out of space, so of course they didn’t want to delete anything. That makes me sad because I want to encourage them to use it and game lol.
Plus, I think it would make it easier rather than always downloading and deleting things.
Have other people bought extra storage for PS5? What kind would you recommend?
Do you go for internal or external? Do you have the heat sink if an internal one? Is 4TB enough or overkill? I think I saw that amount somewhere once (unless I imagined it) but maybe 1 or 2 TB is good, and probably easier to find.
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I have a 8tb usb drive attached. Even though PS5 native games only run on internal drive space, you can move currently unused games to and from the external drive instead of deleting it. PS4 games run off of the external drive.
Do you know how much is the limit for the external drive?
The problem is also that you can only use it for PlayStation data, that’s why I went with a « small » 2tb one.
It has to be internal to run ps5 games. But SSDs have come down a lot since launch, and installing one is super easy.
I do have a heatsink, it’s “too big”, but that just means I didn’t screw the plate over the top of it. It means slightly less directed airflow, but I really doubt it makes a difference in practice. I did also pop on new side panels with vents at the same time, but that’s mostly because I like the look. Those are also pretty cheap.
You’d be paying a lot for the SSD, and then only getting half its value because you’re replacing the PS5’s existing 1TB drive. (Unless you’re spending a truckload of money on a 4TB)
You’re not spending all that much for an SSD, and it doesn’t replace the internal storage. It’s a separate slot.
And again, there’s no alternative that you can play PS5 games off of.
Interesting. I was under the misconception that it only had one slot. When I looked up initial articles, they only described “How to replace the SSD”. Now I might look for one.
If you just pop the side panels off (and it just snaps off and on, though looking at the reference for the right way to direct the pressure is a good idea, you see a little metal panel covering an empty slot for the SSD. You just pop it in, turn it back on, and it tests your SSD speed then makes it available to put games on. The whole process is super simple.
I have the 1TB version of this internal SSD. It’s “officially licensed” — for whatever that’s worth — so I knew it’d work.
And I’ve had zero issues.
And Sony has an official video for how to install the SSDs
I have this one as well, but without the PlayStation logo on it.
I don’t know if it’s still the case, but these were priced higher than the “normal” version, even though they’re exactly the same. So if it’s still the same, get the one without the logo on it.
I just buy physical, because, ultimately, I don’t replay games often. It’s faster and cheaper to just download from disks. Plus, if I ever happen to move, I won’t have to deal with Spectrum’s shitty internet to download massive games.
It’s faster and cheaper to just download from disks
Cheaper maybe, but installing from disc is much slower than downloading. The blu-ray drive in the PS5 has a max speed of 54MB/s. Downloads from PSN are more than twice as fast.
This is true if you live in a place with good internet, which is effectively nowhere in the U.S… I just had a friend who was basically without internet for 3 weeks because of how garbage Spectrum is. Good luck downloading a game then.
Or when live services shut down.You don’t need super fast internet for it to be faster than the optical drive though. Standard gigabit internet is enough. It’s not like the PS5 has a 10GbE port anyway.
I have an external 2gb hard drive and I use it to play some ps4 games and stock the data from the ps5 games I ain’t using right now.
Games are so big nowadays and you have to download so much data that it’s almost necessary to at least have an external drive.
1tb internal SSD (Samsung 980 pro if I remember correctly) and an external drive attached as well.
I bought a 4TB external hdd and that helped a lot.
Recently I added 2TB to internal and I’m not too worried about space anymore.
I spent about US$250 total, buying the drives on sale.
I like having lots of games on hand bc I don’t always know what I’ll feel like playing.
Woah that’s amazing prices. I expected to have to pay that much for one 2 TB drive. How do you find these sales? Or did you just get lucky?
Sales. Keeping an eye on Slick Deals. Black Friday. Clearance.
As Thomas Jefferson once said (iirc) - the more prepared I am, the luckier I find myself.
I considered it, but I mostly cycle between a few games that I spend the majority of my game time playing, anyway. The only times I ever find myself running out of space, it’s because there was a new drop of PSN games that I decided to download and will likely never launch. So I’ve just learned to be better about not installing things I don’t play in the first place.
I run a 1TB drive on USB, it’s nice to hold PS4 games on there when I’m not so concerned about fast load times. Additionally, for someone who frequently samples random games, one option is to run games off PlayStation’s cloud. If you find you enjoy them but want to play them locally, the saves import easily enough.
