Seagate Game Drive for PlayStation® Consoles 5 TB External Hard Drive - USB 3.2 Gen 1, Officially-License (STLV5000100)

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 great to add storage for PS5 games. They take up a lot of room. It was easy to connect to the game system.

I would have bought an internal HDD (the 2TB WD- Black) but I went ahead and bought this due to pricing and amount of storage. I now have over 20 games saved to this drive including all of my game captures. I have only one drawback: you're moving games back and forth. I'm not worried about corrupting saves as it seems pretty straightforward forward DO NOT UNPLUG from your PS5 (safe eject feature available when planning to store or move console). However, If I want to play a game that has 150 GB that is currently not on my internal drive, I have to move over (or previously delete) 150 GB worth of games to the Seagate and then copy the one game that I want to play. The copy process (moving the game back to the internal) takes a few minutes (10 -15) as you skip the "hard download" you would normally get from downloading a game as it is a local download and not a wireless download. The drive looks cool, isn't that much of an eye-sore as it is hidden from my view, and after much use, would pick this option again as it freed up a lot of space from my internal drive, which had a way higher price point then the drive along with less storage. Recommend it to anyone looking to boost their storage situation as we all know 1TB is NOT enough when new games average 80GB - 150GB a game.

Works great, runs ps4 games no problem and makes good storage for ps5 games, copy speed is a bit slow no faster than downloading the game

It couldn't even handle a full cycle of 2TB read and write - yes, I backed up all my games to this drive, it took enormous time to do so. Was able to play Elden Ring once, yes once after the file transfer is done, and that's it. The next day, drive wouldn't get detected and heard a dull whirring noise coming off the drive itself. Tried to bring it to my PC to see if I can see the file system, it doesn't even get detected on BIOS. At that point I gave up. This drive is so cheaply made, now I understand why they've priced it to make it look like a good deal. Because there is no quality check or most likely cheaply made, this will fail soon.

I am satisfied with the functionality of the device. It was recognized by the PS5 instantly, and after formating it was ready to receive game data. What I don't like is that it has only 1.87 GB of available space. 123 GB for system functions is excessive for me. Also it's advertised to be a 3.2 USB connection, but the manual states that is a 3.0 USB. So even if the transfer speed is good, the price is higher than 3.0 devices. You can play PS4 games directly from the USB unit. I tried with the Evil Within 2 and the load times are exactly the same as in the PS5 storage and didn't find any graphic or sound issue. I'm satisifed with the purchase but those issues are something that can't be overlook.

Even on a Sony PS 5 the SSD internal storage can fill up with newer games getting bigger and bigger. The least expensive add on for me is a Segate PS 5 USB 5TB hard drive where you can safely transfer any PS4 games that will load onto the PS5 for play, while if it's a PS5 game eating up your internal storage it can be backup to the USB, but after transferred to play it must be transferred back onto the PS 5, this is not a fault of the USB Extended Storage External drive but the way a Sony Playstation needs to be setup. Having PS 5 game transfer faster between storage units than have to DL than off the internet, the USB drive must be connected to the back of the PS to work as a USB Extended storage Device. when PS5 is on the USB PS drive has a blue light to know it is on, Easy to use after setup, lowest cost add on for the money, quiet when using, heat level very low, PS 4 games will load in a acceptable time then if they were playable on disc.

Awesome and easy to use

Es una buena opción para almacenar juegos de Play Station 4 (que se pueden jugar directamente desde ahí sin necesidad de moverlos a la memoria interna de la consola) y juegos de Play Station 5 (sin la necesidad de descargarlos nuevamente, pero se tienen que mover al almacenamiento interno de la consola para poder jugarlo). El dispositivo llego en buenas condiciones tiene buen tamaño y forma, funciona correctamente y se instala fácilmente siguiendo el manual.

Not bad. So far no problem

Ürünü Playstation 5 'e takıp biçimlendirdim, sorunsuz çalışıyor

This was well priced, it came from overseas but was cheaper than buying locally! Works great, arrived fast.

Muito bom, recomendo