Do you have any idea if a 1tb flash drive would work as expandable storage on PS5?

[Plazorn]

The reason I am asking this is that I saw a really good deal on a 1 terabyte Sandisk Flash Drive, do anyone here have any idea if this will work?

 

[Chary]

I'm using the 1TB Kingston Data Traveler MAX and it works, though it's a USB-C flash drive

 

[Hayato213]

No, you need a pcie gen 4 5.5GB/sec speed

 

[godreborn]

afaik, if you mean via usb, it only works with ps4 games. I think sony made it to where you can only load ps5 games from internal storage, because they want next to 0 load times. from what I understand, it's quite expensive to upgrade internal storage, so I probably won't on mine. if you don't have a good heatsink, sony says it could damage the ps5 as well, so I'd go with a known one that works.

 

[godreborn]

speaking of which, I've played ratchet and clank for the ps5 for at least 5 hours, and some of the ps4 one briefly. they're both on internal storage. I've encountered no load times with either game.

 

[godreborn]

I'm sure some error will pop up if it doesn't fit guidelines like the ps4 does with external storage if it's not usb 3.0+. can't use usb 2.0 or lower. it won't let you.

 

[godreborn]

btw, if you have an external drive for the ps4, it should work with the ps5 for ps4 games without anything extra, as long as it's the same account and obviously not fake pkgs. I've heard from two people that this works. used to work on the ps4 as well, but people were dumping games from psn on lower firmware by moving the external drive from one ps4 to another. can't do that now, so you may have to be on the latest firmware.

 

[Plazorn]

So will it act just like an external hard drive?

 

[godreborn]

So will it act just like an external hard drive?

afaik, you can't use an external drive for ps5 content, only ps4, if that's your intention.

 

[Hayato213]

So will it act just like an external hard drive?

Yea it would act like an external HDD, you need to use the PCIE Gen 4 slot if you want to expand storage.

 

[lolcatzuru]

to answer your question, both yes and no, im guessing that it would function like any other drive, where you can STORE data, but the ps5 (as of right now) only allows you to boot from one location at a time, and thats the gen 4 m.2 it has in it. similarly, afaik there are no flash drives capable of the write speeds needed to be able to play games from there, so where you could, it would be meaningless.

 

[lolcatzuru]

to answer your question, both yes and no, im guessing that it would function like any other drive, where you can STORE data, but the ps5 (as of right now) only allows you to boot from one location at a time, and thats the gen 4 m.2 it has in it. similarly, afaik there are no flash drives capable of the write speeds needed to be able to play games from there, so where you could, it would be meaningless.

 

[godreborn]

yes, afaik, that's true. you can store ps5 games on external, but you can't play them from there, I think.