I’m not very tech savvy but YouTube says I need a certain type of hard drive that it is compatible for PS5?
Anyone bought recently and know if this is true?
Hoping to get a good deal during Black Friday sales
Thanks!
Compatible Hard Drive for PS5
hunter123456 on 23/11/2021 - 09:47
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As Hybroid above has said you need a Gen 4 to work. I recently purchased one of these:
https://www.amazon.com.au/gp/product/B08ZDHBLTP/ref=ppx_od_d…
It was a 5 minute install, works well with no errors etc.
I reckon you should be able to get them cheaper with the upcoming sales etc!
Internal drive
* For playing any game (PS5 & PS4)
* Need to open the console to install in the M.2 slot (not as hard as most believe)
* Needs to be at least a Gen 4 NVMe drive
* Cheapest and most convenient one that meets the recommended spec (benchmarked by PS5 as 5600 MB/s) is the Aorus GP-Asm2ne (got 2TB for $370)External drive
* For playing PS4 games only
* Can store PS5 games if you don't want to re-download, but moving between drives can be slow
* Needs to be at least USB 3 (technically called USB 3.1 Gen 1, which is the rebrand of USB 3.0)
* I personally use a regular 4TB WD Passport without any issues
It needs to be a Gen4 that can fit with a heatsync and can read faster then 5500MB. You will find most ads will say if its compatible with the ps5 now.
For external a Samsung T5 SSD is a great option. This will provide fast load times for PS4 games, if you use a HD load times will be slower.
Depends.
For an internal M.2 SSD to play PS4 and PS5 games, you need a Gen 4 drive with ideally greater than 5500 MB/s speed.
For an external storage drive to play PS4 and store (but NOT play) PS5 games, any 250GB+ USB3 drive should work.
More info:
https://www.playstation.com/en-au/support/hardware/ps5-exten…
https://www.playstation.com/en-au/support/hardware/ps5-insta…