Would Samsung - 870 EVO 2TB Internal SSD SATA work for PS5 as an external SSD in an enclosure to save and play PS5 games? null

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2k23 · Accepted Answer

You can store and play PS4 games onto this drive as External SSD drive in an enclosure. However, you can ONLY store PS5 games onto the drive and NOT play PS5 games from the drive as External SSD drive.

To play PS5 games, you need to copy game data from your USB extended storage or External SSD drive back to your PS5 console's Internal SSD storage.

Note: It’s much quicker to copy a PS5 game from USB extended storage or External SSD drive than to re-download the game from the PSN account. This applies with other External HHD's, External SSD's (Internal HHD's and Internal SSD's (This review) in an enclosure - used as an External drives for PS5).

Wardaddy · Answer

No. Sony purposely made the PlayStation without this capability. Only PlayStation 4 games can be played off of an external drive. 
So you can use this drive to store PlayStation five games. But they cannot be played directly off the drive.

Joseph · Answer

The drives comes unpartitioned or formatted so yes it will work on nearly any system.

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