
Customers are enthusiastic about the product's ample storage and ease of use. The USB 3.2 Gen 1 connection ensures fast load times, and many appreciate its reasonable price. However, some customers have noted compatibility issues with playing games directly from the hard drive.
Note: This review is for PS5 use. To get the best of both worlds I bought this and a 1tb SSD. Pros: -- Stores ps4 games. -- Can play ps4 games directly off of this, saving PS5 SSD space. -- CAN store, I repeat, only STORE/HOLD PS5 games. -- Cheap option. 4tb of PS5 internal SSD is about $350 - $500. Good lord! -- Plenty of space. Can't imagine youll need more than 4tb. -- 10x faster transfering games from this to the PS5 SSD and back than to re-download a game over the internet. Ex. Cyberpunk 2077s 80 Gigabytes transfers in 20 - 30mins compared to 5 - 8 hours over internet. -- Easy to plug in, right in the back of ps5 into the usb slot. USB cable is included. -- I'm encouraged to try more games now instead of dreading the long downloads CONS: -- Cant play PS5 games directly from this device, they must be transferred back to the PS5s SSD. -- Uses a USB slot in back of ps5. You may need it for something else, I cant imagine what though. -- Transfering games to and from this device does not happen in the background while you play games or use apps. Youll have to wait it out. Its super fast though. -- Cant download PS5 games directly to this. You must download them to the PS5 internal SSD or PS5 extended internal SSD first then tranfer them to this.
Posted by JamesM
Easy to set up and use. Holds a lot of games and being able to play ps4 games directly from it helps. Takes a while to transfer ps5 games over due to how large they are, but works. Also small enough to hide it out of sight so you don't even know it's there.
Posted by DarrenR
I bought this last year and it’s still holding up great, with plenty of storage space still on it. I would recommend this to anyone who needs more storage space for their console. The only cons I found were that you can’t play ps5 games on the external hard drive, so you would have to move it back to the ps5. And moving games back and forth can take a while depending on how large the games are. Besides that, I think this is a great hard drive.
Posted by Alex
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