Ps5 Playing Ps4 Games From External Hard Drive

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 bought this to use as an external hard drive for my PS4. I plugged it into the system directly, formatted it and downloaded games to it immediately! Works great and I’m very pleased with this purchase! Told my friends to get one from here for themselves!

[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!

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.

Ordered as external drive for storing PS4 game data to access on PS5 console. Plug and Play, PlayStation setup was fast and painless. No issues with load times or in game performance. Very happy with purchase and always appreciate setting up devices without any surprises. Works exactly as expected. (just wish the included cable was a little longer)

I really consider upgrading your default hard drive from your PS4, this SSD runs games like Cold War, GTA and Red Dead Redemption 2 quickly without getting too hot.

I’m grateful to have this SSD for my PS5. Now I have enough storage that I can download more games in and transfer from PS4 to PS5. Thank you! (:

Hooked this up to my PS5, write speeds are fast, lots of space for old PS4 games, it's a quality product, happy with purchase

[This review was collected as part of a promotion.] I purchased this to use as storage for all my ps4 games on my ps5. Speed is spot on for playing games over uab from this storage device. Never any issues with connectivity or data retention. One of the best upgrades for a ps5