Play Ps5 Games On External Hard Drive

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] This Seagate external hard drive is amazing! I grabbed the 8TB and it's a beast! The read and write speeds are as advertised at 250mbs. This external hard drive can read and while, while being used and playing games. This is my current steam library all on this external drive. I can play games on this device even when downloading. It handles all my tasks! it's also used for my emulators with this incredible reads and write. I my previous device WD black external would freeze all the time, when moving on to the HDD or playing a game while downloading causing the game to crash. If you are a gamer and plan to play games & download at the same time or use this machine as emulation station, this external HDD is for you! I actually hope they come with 18tb or 20tb model cause I would buy again!

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I love to play Xbox but I have always had a problem with the amount of storage the games need to play them. This 3TB gives me more than enough room to download all my games and more. Some of my games are almost 100gb and without the extra external storage it would take up almost hard drive. Hooking the external hard drive up was very easy and just needed to be plugged in directly to the Xbox. The Xbox will recognize it and will be ready to move downloads and store them as needed. The hardrive may look small but 3TB is a very large amount of space! This external hard drive is great quality and I'm pleased how easy set up was with it.

The fact that I can play my games directly from the new drive, both PS5 and PS4 games, is really nice. Was a quick and simple install and format. Highly recommend.

Bought this to expand the storage in a PlayStation 5. The drive is fast enough that it provides as good or better performance than the built-in drive, and it expanded the total available storage from 800GB (about 625 usable) to 2,800. That's great because as big as modern games are, the stock hard drive only puts about ten PS5 games at your immediate disposal. As for the buying experience, B&H customer service was stellar as always, the product shipped quickly and arrived in great condition. Sony made the installation process quick and easy, much like upgrading memory in a laptop, where you just have to access a side hatch rather than crack the whole device open. Of course I'd still suggest the usual precautions like an anti-static strap. I've seen some questions about this elsewhere, so I'll mention it here in case someone's deciding between an internal drive like this one or an external drive, which are usually cheaper and bigger. Internal drives can hold both PS5 and PS4 games, and you can play them straight from the disk as if it were part of the console, because it kind of is. External drives can be used to store whatever games you like, but PS5 games have to be transferred to an internal drive before you can play them. It's not a huge hassle, USB 3.0 data transfer speeds are pretty quick, but it does mean a bit of juggling.

I been waiting to get this drive for my PS5, I usually don't like that process to install games to play others, now I can keep my games with maximum speed, I always trusted in Samsung Drives.

Really happy with the storage size for the price (I got it on sale, so even more of a bargain). This is now I believe my 4th WD brand external hard drive, and I think the 3rd I've bought from the My Passport line. Never had any issues with any of the My Passports, and so far this new one is holding up just as well as my now 5ish year old ones. The only downside, which has nothing to do with the hard drive itself or the company... I bought this for my PS5, and found out after the fact that externals can only be used to store PS4 games. I had purposely gone for 5TB assuming I would need massive amounts of storage for extremely large PS5 games. It's okay though, I'm sure I'm still going to rinse through storage space with PS4 games anyway-- it's never a bad idea to buy the larger storage size. Just pointing it out in case anyone else had the same idea I had.

This hard drive is the best I can finally download all my PS4 and PS5 games I'm very satisfied with my purchase thank you WD Black

I have the Play 5 in my living room and it allows me to play all of my music stored on my external hard drive located in my office. I have two other systems in other rooms that now are connected to the Play 5 and can play the same or different music in those rooms. It is a great solution for providing my music through out my house.

I use my new Asus external slim drive to play games and watch dvds. It works quickly and quietly and is quite fashionable in appearance. It is obviously a high-quality drive.

The external hard drive was easy to set up, just plug and play, and works as expected.