Expand your PS5 storage with these tips

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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[@RatfromNadeaust]

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.

[@BlackOmEga_2099]

Hopefully there’s an update to let us play ps5 games on the external drive. It’s just ridiculous

[@IlIKRATOSIlI]

The issue with that is drive quality leading to user experience issues that are then blamed back on Sony.

[@lambo2655]

Physically impossible the USB 3.0 port just can’t support the bandwidth compared to the internal SSD.

[@KhaiGK]

@@lambo2655 but you don't need all that bandwidth to run the game

[@Vidz.3901]

Ps5 evolved backwards ps4 does this but ps5 can’t like what?!

[@MuhammadSawash-zf2vn]

yup

[@bryan9495]

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]

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]

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]

@@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]

Cold War, cyber punk, & days gone. That’s all I have at the moment Since their is no more room 🤣

[@TAYLAN7220]

Cold War and Ghost of Tsushima eats up my storage! 💀

[@TJMOVIN]

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]

Fr took years of begging to get it but because of the storage system I just play on my ps4

[@xzlo-topic]

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]

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.

[@davidg1612]

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.

[@MrLew1965]

SONY NEEDS TO FIX THIS NOT THE CONSUMERS !!!!!!!!!!1

[@oplegendsrodk]

Agreed

[@bushcraftandastronomer.3775]

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]

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]

@@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]

Why not play PS2 games like Dark Cloud and The Mark of Kri?

[@bushcraftandastronomer.3775]

@@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]

@@bushcraftandastronomer.3775 Dude I mean the PS Plus deluxe on the PS5

[@NoviceDIYerNoel]

Very informative. Thank you for this video.

[@dubbihh1166]

Love your lil set up man I have too definitely expand my horizon

[@Raccoon-Reece]

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

[@joshuakinney3211]

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]

Can you show me the one you have I need more storage bad

[@No_lavishness]

But it's not possible to play PS5 games off an external HDD.

[@HaosOnline]

Stop lying you cant play ps5 games on external ssd.

[@LAIRDO-]

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]

Which one did you buy

[@LAIRDO-]

@@ritxual-8719 One from SABRENT.

[@StreetSoldier975]

WICH YOU USE FOR YOUR PS5 THEN ?

[@eugenegutierrez5106]

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 .

[@supermegaguy666]

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.

[@3lement2010]

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]

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

[@OperationW.A.G]

Thank you so much this really helped

[@ericsmith116]

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]

Link please 🙏

[@I-need-2-win]

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

[@MuhammadSawash-zf2vn]

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.

[@Jalinthegoat23]

So do PlayStation have a storage thing to where you can put any game on it and play it from that storage?

[@peterparker346]

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

[@quboidgames6702]

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

[@sloth1992]

You still cant play a ps5 game on a external drive which is BS.

[@pulkitkumar25]

SONY NEEDS TO FIX THIS

[@soha150]

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]

Yeah gen 3 don't work with ps5s only gen 4s

[@jonhdoe6303]

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

[@RicardoRamirez-tm5vv]

Omg! You look like an older version of Rick Kackis

[@MrRensvind]

Im a one and done Guy. I play thru a game then i uninstall and move on to the next one :)

[@pulkitkumar25]

I really try hard to be this kind of gamer but I get bored very easily with one type of genre

[@althegamer6606]

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

[@LCRavagnani]

It’s great when it works. My PS5 bricked two of my external drives.

[@helgeapps]

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

[@davidcalmett5623]

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]

How did you do that?

[@leekman6636]

Thank you for the video 👍🏾

[@9snaga]

Just going to wait for ps5 slim or whatever the updated version will be. Plenty of Ps4 content to go through still.

[@keithragin89]

If you broke say that 🤣

[@WololoWololo2]

@@keithragin89that ps5 really has low space by default

[@mrkimbonda]

Ghost of TUSHima lol

[@complex4508]

The ps5 normal storage sucks 2k 23 forced me to delete 4 games

[@dnknd0nuts340]

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]

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]

Firecuda 530

[@AlmightyKnight]

I bought exactly same Samsung external SSD when i plug it in what format should i set it ? Should i leave it on exFat?

[@anthonysimmonsacousticmusi1098]

You literally have the exact same games as I do

[@nickmartin596]

Would a 2tb HDD external drive work?

[@mrfishyfisshh]

"Go tooshima"

[@bennythebear]

How about a video on How to GET a PS5

[@Jgunz123]

Sounds like a personal problem.

[@vee8342]

if you dont have one at this point, you're not really trying

[@ixel_4x]

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.

[@PixelDime_]

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

[@richardmendoza2005]

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

[@iluvmma1152]

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]

That's what I want to know as well.

[@iluvmma1152]

@@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

[@Sophisticated_Goose]

Thank you

[@jamestrujillo5195]

I hope the ps6 in the future will have at least 3 turbine that comes with it

[@redacted588]

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]

Why not play ps2 games, they are great aswell

[@ryderthechallenger2788]

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]

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.

[@chyannelandberg7586]

What’s that game at 0:33 the space looking one?

[@fbbb5747]

I remember... Could add internal storage to PS3... What was good...

[@CesarIsaacPerez]

it happened.

[@hoopfireprod.595]

So what’s the external drive do and when they’re in the external drive can you still play them?

[@mariog4674]

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]

@@mariog4674 I’m a bit late but which one did you buy

[@felixmitchell7888]

My screw has plastic on top does it come off ??

[@GahhDamnAlex]

What screw?

[@felixmitchell7888]

@@GahhDamnAlex screw for the PS5 stand

[@samslime9217]

Are u related to Levi and Mikasa?

[@the6avefamily616]

Can you use this for ps5 games...

[@Vidz.3901]

Bro Sony just really went backwards with this

[@luckyluke95]

Why use Samsung T7 SSD on simple USB 3 port, not efficient ????? 🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦🤦 Just use HDD 2.5 4to, it’s enough ✌️✌️✌️

[@erringwrld6682]

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]

No

[@TURLES901]

Al from home improvement Are you doing ps5 videos now

[@AKayani559]

PlayStation really making me wish I had a pc 😭

[@ronaldguz]

can a Hard drive can be used to play ps4 games?

[@zeroturn7091]

Yes

[@kenshin09able]

I want to know if i buy 2 and use it would it stack or would it not stack like that

[@steven2809]

You can have more than one external drive BUT you can only use one at a time.👍

[@jeffdanky4552]

I love PS5 but it's diabolical at points

[@rhyno9798]

I just want to move video clips off my internal without erasing them? Goshhh

[@ryderthechallenger2788]

I used the save fricking thing as you but it doesn’t work Edit: we good I got it!

[@colonelradec5956]

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.

[@colekwan2378]

Is the transferred PS5 game to the external storage with the saved progress of the game?

[@pulkitkumar25]

Yup

[@eskimo1000]

I cannot wait until the terabyte becomes the new megabyte 🙏

[@Lamar_G2006]

So memory card are back ok then

[@jimk8660]

are you Rick Kackis?

[@Metaphysicalgrace86]

Can I just take my SSDHD drive out of my PS4 and hook it up to the PS5? I have the proper connections.

[@SuperNerdAdamsGarage]

Yes

[@Joolsthejools]

Did he just say 'toucheeiyma'?!?

[@xItzBlizzy-]

Cold War is fuckin 200+ gigs like wtf

[@whosfrank9905]

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?

[@SuperiorAsain]

an Ackerman?

[@ilynpayne7491]

I had to download and delete and download multiple games😢😢

[@barney1925]

bro 80 dollars for a hardware 💀

[@microhard4997]

is there a way to download ps5 games on your pc and use a usb to put it on to your ps5?

[@SuperNerdAdamsGarage]

No

[@WololoWololo2]

Steam

[@SuperiorAsain]

I tried storing my ps5 games into the internal drive but it says it cannot accept it

[@michaelchiello1946]

The PS5 has been so overhyped and honestly not that impressive. 50 to 100 GB updates and constant downloads. Insane data usage, takes way too long and so sick of waiting to play and more updates and copying. Little storage capacity considering how much space all these games need. All a gimmick and I’m at the point I’m gonna sell this console and stick with my switch.

[@janpaulschliemann9430]

Do I need to format it as exFAT or can I still use and play PS4 games without formatting it to exFAT

[@rytiskitovas7124]

Do you need to leave the ssd in your playstation

[@legendarypaladin5494]

Yes

[@bttmboy910]

Just get a ssd with heat sink 😂

[@hanifarooq3719]

Like rdr 2 takes up half of my memory

[@jasonnarragon637]

So does this mean if u get the drive can u not play ps5 games?

[@bhiko20]

You can. But you can’t move ps5 games to external drive.

[@byakugan_quan0327]

@@bhiko20yea but in order to play them again u would have to transfer them to console storage

[@Qomicbook]

THIS MF JUST SAID GHOST OF TOOSHIMUH

[@aeki4923]

Nice beard

[@noobgamer7_738]

Does the external drive always have to be plugged in?

[@SuperNerdAdamsGarage]

Yes

[@quannelquan3203]

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]

I have the same problem, don’t know a solution yet either

[@SuperNerdAdamsGarage]

@@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]

@@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

[@Gnerocity]

Where did you get your frames?

[@n4s98]

Tooshima?

[@TheJungleGeorge]

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.....

[@chloekaftan]

just bought a ps5 for 5% less than msrp with 850gb in it uwu

[@CJBVD]

Weeeeb

[@deito3172]

Cornball

[@waitwhat5131]

goofy

[@glenn8368]

I hope you look back into this comment with embarrassment

[@LouisXVl]

Does anyone know if you can you an external ssd + an extra internal ssd at the same time?

[@KyloBedo-]

External and internal are separate, you can have both

[@aryamantandon6682]

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]

My USB ports are tight too,so tight I get worried about breaking the device or port.

[@GianStuff]

I swear this guy's voice sounds similar to another voice

[@jleemccarthymcgarry3694]

It takes to long so it’s not helpful

[@TkDatNinja]

Spent all this money on this damn game just for it to not hold anything. What a waste.

[@itshololive]

and I jdid was just load up a bunch of hentai

[@ManuMiAS]

why are you making this video soo long