Expand your PS5 storage with these tips
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Expanding PS5 storage is a breeze, mostly. Adding extra space for games is easy, but don’t get tripped up by weird rules on what works and what doesn’t.
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I miss when everyone was on a disk. I hate how you buy a disk and you still have to install the game. that’s why I bought the disk.
Hopefully there’s an update to let us play ps5 games on the external drive. It’s just ridiculous
@IlIKRATOSIlI
2 жыл бұрын
The issue with that is drive quality leading to user experience issues that are then blamed back on Sony.
@lambo2655
Жыл бұрын
Physically impossible the USB 3.0 port just can’t support the bandwidth compared to the internal SSD.
@KhaiGK
Жыл бұрын
@@lambo2655 but you don't need all that bandwidth to run the game
@Vidz.3901
Жыл бұрын
Ps5 evolved backwards ps4 does this but ps5 can’t like what?!
@MuhammadSawash-zf2vn
Жыл бұрын
yup
This tactic Sony has is pointless. COD takes up literally ALL my memory.. to the point where I can't even update the game with the new updates
@yanurie_3956
3 жыл бұрын
I have both cold war and modern warfare downloaded and they both take up my whole storage I can't download any more games
@owenpalmer757
3 жыл бұрын
No kidding, hopped on today to play only to see that the download failed because the updates for modern warfare and Cold War are 100 gigabytes each, so stupid…
@bryanvanderheuvel5953
2 жыл бұрын
@@yanurie_3956 im trying to hop on warzone i only have 5 games “ no storage” like I already deleted 7 what do you want
@mrbryan8752
2 жыл бұрын
Cold War, cyber punk, & days gone. That’s all I have at the moment Since their is no more room 🤣
@TAYLAN7220
2 жыл бұрын
Cold War and Ghost of Tsushima eats up my storage! 💀
Just got my ps5 today and I was wondering why I couldn’t store ps5 games on the external drive thanks man you really help me out here 👍🏿
@ko7577
Жыл бұрын
Because Playstation wants to become a controller company. I can't believe anyone fell for it this generation, by next generation maybe people will wake up and realize that the kind of gaming experience they're advertising has been on PC for 15 years. They need to just sell controllers to PC gamers if they can't provide room for more than 5 games.
Love your lil set up man I have too definitely expand my horizon
Thank you so much this really helped
We’ll that’s annoying,, spend your own hard earned money then once you run out of space with only having let’s say 5 games? You gotta spend MORE bank to get another storage… bout to go buy the Soulja boy console at this point
@AKayani559
20 күн бұрын
Fr took years of begging to get it but because of the storage system I just play on my ps4
Very informative. Thank you for this video.
Thank you for the video 👍🏾
So do PlayStation have a storage thing to where you can put any game on it and play it from that storage?
Did you buy 500GB at Amazon. I bought mine for same price. I got mine in Best Buy. It’ 2tb. I did transfer all my ps4 games in my external drive. Makes more sense .
If I have a hard drive that I use to use for my ps4 can I use it for my ps5 it’s a sea gate but I think I have stuff saved on it like my ps4 games will it delete everting on the hard drive if I plug it in my ps5
I bought exactly same Samsung external SSD when i plug it in what format should i set it ? Should i leave it on exFat?
SONY NEEDS TO FIX THIS NOT THE CONSUMERS !!!!!!!!!!1
@oplegendsrodk
Жыл бұрын
Agreed
i need more storage for media gallery cuz I used 470 GB for media gallery and I am not deleting the videos and screenshots because they are important to me. I need more storage for that.
If i have a game that needs a disc to play and if i move thar game to extended storage and put disc in what will happen
Thank you
Would a 2tb HDD external drive work?
Can you use this for ps5 games...
Call of duty cold war is like 325.8 gm minimum that is ridiculous it is more then Read Dead Redemption 2 and GTA 5 put together
What’s that game at 0:33 the space looking one?
Until I find a SSD higher then 8TB the PS5 now has over 100 games not enough for 4TB with this plus premium membership there are just to many games I can’t install
I decided to forgo the internal SSD upgrade and use a 8 TB external HD from Seagate. It in fact holds and plays PS5 games as well as PS4. 😉👍 I now only have one PS5 game on the internal, COD, and it’s there so it runs better. I have little over 300GB left on internal for incidentals such as apps and screenshots.
@Taeearth
2 жыл бұрын
Can you show me the one you have I need more storage bad
@No_lavishness
2 жыл бұрын
But it's not possible to play PS5 games off an external HDD.
@HaosOnline
Жыл бұрын
Stop lying you cant play ps5 games on external ssd.
I literally have 13 games and I can't install more because it wants me to delete some even though I still haven't completed some of them and even though i have the ps5....Sony should increase the storage more honestly
Ok so if I move warzone, modern warfare,ff7, to USB and want to play them how long does it take to play them when I turn my ps5 on ?
@genoramirez4204
3 жыл бұрын
That's what I want to know as well.
@iluvmma1152
3 жыл бұрын
@@genoramirez4204 they play right away I bought the ps4 one and I I have it connected to my ps5 so all ps4 games load right up as soon as u click them
in 2022 Sony has announced that it is possible to hook up an M.2 NVMe PCIe GEN4 and above only GEN 4 is supported I tried Gen 3 but it did not work. not to mention that Gen 4 is almost double the price of Gen 3
@GahhDamnAlex
Жыл бұрын
Yeah gen 3 don't work with ps5s only gen 4s
I'm late to the party but, I pulled my 500g hard drive out of my PS4 and bought an external hard drive enclosure from Amazon for $10. Now my PS4 games are on there and I'm only out $10. Works perfectly and took me 5 minutes total.
@ritxual-8719
Жыл бұрын
Which one did you buy
@LAIRDO-
Жыл бұрын
@@ritxual-8719 One from SABRENT.
@StreetSoldier975
7 ай бұрын
WICH YOU USE FOR YOUR PS5 THEN ?
If one of my extended storages are full, and I got a new one, how do I safely transfer those games to my new ssd?
@zeroturn7091
7 ай бұрын
Since you can’t run two externals at the same time you’ll have to transfer them back to games storage then to the new external.
Gonna get a PS5 in the coming weeks. Has Sony updated the system to where you can play PS5 games on the external drive or no??
@PDeathDealers
Жыл бұрын
No that’s impossible otherwise it would defeat the purpose of sonys goal to have faster load times u can store ps5 games but not play em from external drive
Replying from a year later and sony has allowed us to use the M.2 internal storage drive now. Wooot...super easy to install too.
@leuqetsniksoh8590
11 ай бұрын
Link please 🙏
it happened.
Is the transferred PS5 game to the external storage with the saved progress of the game?
@pulkitkumar25
Жыл бұрын
Yup
It’s great when it works. My PS5 bricked two of my external drives.
@helgeapps
2 жыл бұрын
it cannot be bricked. it just reformatted them to different scheme which is suitable for ps5, if you want to use it again with windows or macos then reformat to correct scheme back
I want to know if i buy 2 and use it would it stack or would it not stack like that
@steven2809
2 жыл бұрын
You can have more than one external drive BUT you can only use one at a time.👍
Can I just take my SSDHD drive out of my PS4 and hook it up to the PS5? I have the proper connections.
@SuperNerdAdamsGarage
Жыл бұрын
Yes
Two questions: 1.Where would I find a 2TB SSD that supports my PS5? 2. Second, you say only ps5 games can be played when stored on the internal hard drive, however, you have the option of transferring them to external when need be. Continuing on that note, now, let's say I have the ps4 version of Miles Morales, which also supports ps5. I have the ps4 version downloaded on the external, usually if its on the internal, I would have the option of playing it in a ps5 version on my console, will that still be possible via the external drive? Hopefully my question came out clear....
@PDeathDealers
2 жыл бұрын
You will still be able to play if it's ps4 version u can you play it from the external hard drive or SSD ( which ever u have ) however if you upgrade it too the ps5 version u can only play it on your internal storage and not from your external imo if you really wanna make best of uses with the external is get an 8tb HDD and use it as a cold storage for ps5 games great way to save and manage space and yes the 8tb HDD aren't alot you can get them for 100 quid n stuff
@Keeacer
2 жыл бұрын
Firecuda 530
Omg! You look like an older version of Rick Kackis
Are u related to Levi and Mikasa?
I just want to move video clips off my internal without erasing them? Goshhh
I hope the ps6 in the future will have at least 3 turbine that comes with it
Do you need to leave the ssd in your playstation
@legendarypaladin5494
3 жыл бұрын
Yes
You literally have the exact same games as I do
I was trying to figure out how to make room in my ps5 when I remembered about my ps plus subscription, gives you 100 GB of cloud storage, so I transferred all my saved data from my ps5 to the cloud and right away ps5 started installing god of war ragnarok!!!
@BravoRomeooo
11 ай бұрын
How did you do that?
Good vid, it's BEYOND fucking annoying to have to wait 30 minutes to play a damn game. Especially when you already have the damn disc itself.
Where did you get your frames?
Just going to wait for ps5 slim or whatever the updated version will be. Plenty of Ps4 content to go through still.
@keithragin89
Жыл бұрын
If you broke say that 🤣
@WololoWololo2
11 ай бұрын
@@keithragin89that ps5 really has low space by default
I used the save fricking thing as you but it doesn’t work Edit: we good I got it!
Ok so I have to get a specific external storage and have only ps4 games there and my ps5 games on my ps5 storage. Do I have to download every game to the external storage?
@yeaight3152
2 жыл бұрын
No
It’s worse when u actually buy a game without looking at how much storage it needs and u have 0 storage left to download it
I tried storing my ps5 games into the internal drive but it says it cannot accept it
Ghost of TUSHima lol
You still cant play a ps5 game on a external drive which is BS.
@pulkitkumar25
Жыл бұрын
SONY NEEDS TO FIX THIS
Sony needs to get rid of that "you can't play PS5 games off external drives" horseshit. I don't care what needs to happen. 667 GB is not enough for more than 10 games if you're lucky especially when your console keeps eating away at that space for system functions. It's the stupidest thing Sony has done yet.
Do I need to format it as exFAT or can I still use and play PS4 games without formatting it to exFAT
is there a way to download ps5 games on your pc and use a usb to put it on to your ps5?
@SuperNerdAdamsGarage
Жыл бұрын
No
@WololoWololo2
11 ай бұрын
Steam
How about a video on How to GET a PS5
@Jgunz123
3 жыл бұрын
Sounds like a personal problem.
@vee8342
3 жыл бұрын
if you dont have one at this point, you're not really trying
@ixel_4x
2 жыл бұрын
By from Stockx or EBay or Facebook Market Place. It’s literally people that has them that just want money. If you don’t want to pay the price then you just miss out. Sony already said they not sending or making anymore cuz of the chip shortage. Why you think info about the PS5 Pro is starting to break out.
Somebody anybody help I have pS5 with only ps5 games on it. And I ran out of space. I have 2 new ps games that I would like to play, since I have no more space I am unable to install them. Any suggestions??
@rafaelyousef8281
2 жыл бұрын
I have the same problem, don’t know a solution yet either
@SuperNerdAdamsGarage
Жыл бұрын
@@rafaelyousef8281 the only solution is to use external storage and move the games you don't currently feel like playing to it and install the new ones. Then when you want to play those games again you need to transfer games from the internal storage on the hard drive and the games you wanna play onto the internal again
@rafaelyousef8281
Жыл бұрын
@@SuperNerdAdamsGarage alright, thanks for your reply! I might consider to buy an external in the future, but I’m not so struggling with it anymore. At the time I went from a ps3 (with discs) to a ps5 digital, so I was just missing the benefit from the disc-feature
Thank you for your video but I’m furious why can’t we store ps5 games on a hard drive and play them off of there to free up space on the console should we use a pc hard drive?
can a Hard drive can be used to play ps4 games?
@zeroturn7091
7 ай бұрын
Yes
So what’s the external drive do and when they’re in the external drive can you still play them?
@mariog4674
2 жыл бұрын
External drive can store and play PS4 games. It can also just store PS5 games but you cannot play them from the external. I had a lot of ps4 games so I'm basically using an external for all those games.
@ritxual-8719
Жыл бұрын
@@mariog4674 I’m a bit late but which one did you buy
My screw has plastic on top does it come off ??
@GahhDamnAlex
Жыл бұрын
What screw?
@felixmitchell7888
Жыл бұрын
@@GahhDamnAlex screw for the PS5 stand
"Go tooshima"
So memory card are back ok then
I had to download and delete and download multiple games😢😢
an Ackerman?
Im a one and done Guy. I play thru a game then i uninstall and move on to the next one :)
@pulkitkumar25
Жыл бұрын
I really try hard to be this kind of gamer but I get bored very easily with one type of genre
I remember... Could add internal storage to PS3... What was good...
Damn bro sony really just pissed me off bad bro we really have to stand together in stupid ass shi like this bro no bs
The ps5 normal storage sucks 2k 23 forced me to delete 4 games
Hey guys. For whoever has a ps5, are your USB back ports really tight? Like hard to pull out the USB device? And also the blue plastic bit on my rear USB ports chips off easily whenever i removed a USB device. Please Help
@charlesfragoso3932
3 жыл бұрын
My USB ports are tight too,so tight I get worried about breaking the device or port.
are you Rick Kackis?
Does anyone know if you can you an external ssd + an extra internal ssd at the same time?
@KyloBedo-
2 жыл бұрын
External and internal are separate, you can have both
Bro Sony just really went backwards with this
I cannot wait until the terabyte becomes the new megabyte 🙏
Did he just say 'toucheeiyma'?!?
Does the external drive always have to be plugged in?
@SuperNerdAdamsGarage
Жыл бұрын
Yes
Like rdr 2 takes up half of my memory
bro 80 dollars for a hardware 💀
So does this mean if u get the drive can u not play ps5 games?
@bhiko20
2 жыл бұрын
You can. But you can’t move ps5 games to external drive.
@byakugan_quan0327
Жыл бұрын
@@bhiko20yea but in order to play them again u would have to transfer them to console storage
PlayStation really making me wish I had a pc 😭
Sony is now making gamers pay storage which they did with ps4 500GB hard drive and ps5s 825GB. With the current food and energy sky high prices gamers shouldn't be paying for extra storage so Sony should give us 2TB hard drive in every ls5. It gets me angry when I run out of space on ps5. Ps5 is a superb console and wonderful controller but come on its storage size is terrible. Horizon forbidden west is almost 100GB to install. Sony needs to grow up and give gamers a 2TB hard drive.
@metalhead7319
Жыл бұрын
Its not even 825 but 667 in fact, not to mention the "other" folder ate up a lot as well. And im not gonna use the external hard drive just because Sony didnt give us 2tb internal ssd in the first place, they knew the games are getting bigger, its ridiculous
@bushcraftandastronomer.3775
Жыл бұрын
@@metalhead7319 It's all down to money and ps5 has had 3 years and yet so many gamers are complaining now about this small storage. It costs a lot and sony just don't care if gamers complain. Before ps5 came out I worried about its storage size and its just stupid they give a small hard drive. Red dead redemption 2 takes over 100GB to 8nstall. Gamers shouldn't buy ps6 as they should wait for pro version with bigger storage. Ah well I'm only buying games I like for example The last of us crash bandicoot Yomb raider Uncharted Metal gear solid plus Rwsident evil. Games well worth playing.
@WololoWololo2
11 ай бұрын
Why not play PS2 games like Dark Cloud and The Mark of Kri?
@bushcraftandastronomer.3775
11 ай бұрын
@@WololoWololo2 Enjoying the ps1 lately with the classics like mgs 1 Resident evil 2 etc the discs still in very good condition. Ps1 was so good to have. Ps2 ill get later.
@WololoWololo2
11 ай бұрын
@@bushcraftandastronomer.3775 Dude I mean the PS Plus deluxe on the PS5
Cold War is fuckin 200+ gigs like wtf
I love PS5 but it's diabolical at points
Why use Samsung T7 SSD on simple USB 3 port, not efficient ????? 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 Just use HDD 2.5 4to, it’s enough ✌️✌️✌️
the ps5 is bullshit how does that even make any sense ??? so i bought the external drive for nothing only to find out my online games are gonna get bigger on the intenal one and i cant upgrade any space on it wtf why did they do this ? i know sony is a scam but i never knew they would go this low
Bro even Sony’s tip is useless, I literally have cod installed and it takes up all my storage up and I cant download games I wanna play because of the storage.
@WololoWololo2
11 ай бұрын
Why not play ps2 games, they are great aswell
Tooshima?
just bought a ps5 for 5% less than msrp with 850gb in it uwu
@CJBVD
3 жыл бұрын
Weeeeb
@deito3172
2 жыл бұрын
Cornball
@waitwhat5131
2 жыл бұрын
goofy
@glenn8368
Жыл бұрын
I hope you look back into this comment with embarrassment
Just get a ssd with heat sink 😂
Nice beard
I swear this guy's voice sounds similar to another voice
tip number 1 buy a pc 😂 i have a ps5 it sucks. adding a hard drive only works on ps4 games. problem is every game is making a "ps5" version and these can not be put on an external hard drive. i just bought a game, now i have to delete it to update another game. nice. if you dont got fiber dont even bother.
It takes to long so it’s not helpful
E
Why would you spend all that doe on a ps5 if ya too broke to buy storage? Some people need to know how to live within their means.....
Second
Spent all this money on this damn game just for it to not hold anything. What a waste.
and I jdid was just load up a bunch of hentai
First
Can I get a shoutout and btw very interesting