PlayStation 5 External Storage

[DisneyExplorer]

I want to increase the amount of storage available to my PlayStation 5 and was wondering what the best piece of accessory you would recommend to give me the most and highest rating?

[DisneyExplorer]

Which is best? External hard drive or SSD?

[mostlybobbins]

Originally Posted by DisneyExplorer

Which is best? External hard drive or SSD?

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SSD will always be faster than a traditional external HDD.

[DisneyExplorer]

SSD explained?

[mostlybobbins]

Originally Posted by DisneyExplorer

SSD explained?

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In very simple terms, HDD is old technology, SSD is new.

SSD's are much faster than old HDD's, so using an SSD would cut down your loading times of your games compared to a HDD.

Your PS5 has an internal SSD as it is, so if you were to add any external storage, I would add an SSD too, otherwise you're slowing down your loading speeds in comparison.

HDD will be cheaper, there's no doubt about that, but SSD will give you the same speed to load as your internal SSD disk on your PS5.

With me?

[Padme]

My DH works for PlayStation. This is a link they put out.

playstation/en-gb/su...nstall-m2-ssd/

[Rozzyb2011]

SSD with built in heatsink, I bought mine separate though to save £

[DisneyExplorer]

Originally Posted by Rozzyb2011

SSD with built in heatsink, I bought mine separate though to save £

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Where did you purchase your SSD and was it fairly easy to setup?

[figment05]

SSD is the only option if you want to install it internally. if you do want that make sure you check out the read write speed, you need it fast if you want to play games direct from it. If you just need storage for game saves etc then yuo can buy an external SSD whcih you can connect via USB. The external are cheaper as storage does not need to be as fast.

[DisneyExplorer]

Any recommendations because some of them are quite expensive and wouldn’t want to pay a substantial amount of money to find it’s the wrong product plus how does the whole SSD work? Do you just connect it via usb or do you have to open the console up and is it quite easy to do" Sorry for loads of questions