Seagate Game Drive for PlayStation® Consoles 2 TB External Hard Drive – USB 3.2 Gen 1, Officially-Licensed (STLV2000101) by Seagate

This is a great upgrade to your PS5 but there seems to be a lot of confusion as to how it works. This is an external hard disk drive (HDD) as opposed to a more expensive, internal solid state drive (SDD). An HDD (like this one from Seagate) plugs into your PS5 with an included USB cable and allows you to store tons of games on it, but they can’t be played immediately. An SSD, on the other hand, requires installing inside your PS5 with the other components, but allows you to play games right away. A SSD is easier and faster to use, but costs considerably more per TB. For example, this Seagate 5TB HDD costs about the same as a 1TB SSD. A 5TB internal SSD will cost nearly triple what this one does. Some games take over an hour to install initially, but only ~10 minutes to transfer to your console so you can play them. So, with this Seagate HDD, you store your entire game library on it and then keep a handful of PS5 games stored directly on your console to play right away. Then, you can quickly move them back and forth between the Seagate drive and your console as you play different games. If you don’t need 5TB, or can afford a very expensive 5TB internal SSD, you should definitely get an SSD. But, if you have a lot of games and not a lot of money, this is a great option and 10 minutes to transfer a game isn’t that big of a deal in reality. So, this is a great option for people, such as myself, that aren’t willing to buy an expensive SSD with enough storage for all of their games. It’s also nice bc you can bring this external drive to use on a friends PS5 and quickly transfer the game to them, instead of waiting an hour for it to download or bringing your entire console with you. So, in summary, this Seagate HDD is cheap, has lots of memory, and requires about 10 minutes to move games around when you finish one and want to get other games ready to go. Whereas an internal SSD is expensive, has less memory, but allows all of your games to be played right away. In my experience, having 6 or 7 games on your console at a time and then these rest on an HDD to transfer quickly when you want to, is a fantastic and budget-friendly option. The drive itself is high quality, looks great, and pairs perfectly with the white PS5 console. I definitely recommend it!

Works like a dream, sorely needed considering how big games are now for installation size

PS5 does not allow for games to be played from an external drive. So while this will work with a PS5, you can only store PS5 games on the drive and need to move them back to the internal PS5 storage tp play. I should have done my research prior, as I already had an external drive for my PS4 games which allows for games to be installed and played.

So Iam posting this for someone who is like me and didnt read up on PS5 storage before buying.

This Seagate Game Drive is basically a black hole… for all my games. 🎮✨ Plug it in, and suddenly my PS5 can hold everything without begging me to delete 17 save files. Fast, reliable, and sturdy enough to survive me yelling at the screen during boss fights. Honestly, it’s like giving your console a supercharged memory upgrade—and my gaming nights have never been happier.

Excelente tamaño muy liviano y súper útil para ampliar el almacenamiento de juegos