PS5 SSD Upgrade - Step-by-step guide to expand your storage

Although you can store games on an external hard drive, you can't run PS5 titles from USB storage Those drives are just too slow for PS5 games

2 SSD slot You can technically keep PS5 games on an external drive — but to actually play them, they need to be moved to internal storage

ps5 cd slot USB drives that you used as USB extended storage on your PS4 console or another PS5 console don't need to be re-formatted When you first start using a USB

ps5 external hard drive slot External drives will not play ps5 games, but they can be used on your ps5 to play ps4 games, thus freeing up your internal storage space for ps5