Are you able to expand the PS5’s storage with just a normal USB 3.0 drive?
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inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 2 days agoI guess just be glad they’re not pulling a Microsoft where you’d have to buy a propriety NVMe drive.
Prox@lemmy.world 2 days ago
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 day ago
You can, but you can’t play games from it, it would be storage only. You’d have to move it to internal memory to play it.
Prox@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Okay, so isn’t that exactly the same situation as the Xbox, but then the Xbox gives you the additional option to actually expand the hot storage?
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Yup. On the PS5, you can add standard M2 storage to increase the usable internal space.
On the Xbox you have to use the Seagate or WD plug.
VindictiveJudge@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Only for backwards compatibility titles. PS5 titles have to be run off of either the integrated storage or an M.2 SSD.
Lyra_Lycan@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 days ago
You referring to the expansion drives that slot in the back and are hotswappable? Most expensive storage medium I’ve ever bought. Problem was, there was no alternative… Internal storage ignored, ofc
Gerudo@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
You always were able to use a standard external drive. Yeah, the speed was slower, but you weren’t forced to buy the expansion card.
jordanlund@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Current gen games can’t be played from standard external storage. You could put the game there, but it would have to be moved to internal memory to play it.
BC games would work fine, but not current gen.
Applies to both PS5 and Xbox both.