With an 825GB SSD, every gigabyte of space on your PS5 is precious. That’s why you don’t want to waste it with PS4 games, especially when PS5 games need to be played from their internal SSD.
To make your lives easier so that you don’t have to constantly transfer games back and forth, you can set an external hard drive as your default drive for PS4 game downloads.
Doing so is easy, and it should save you a lot of time. It may not be as fast as the PS5’s SSD, but an external drive can play PS4 games just fine.
Steps to choose a default hard drive for PS4 games on PS5:
- Turn on your PS5.
- Plug in a compatible external hard drive into one of the back USB Type-A ports (the front USB port will not work because it is not Superspeed).
- Go to Settings.
- Select Storage.
- Select USB Extended Storage.
- Toggle on Always Install PS4 Games to USB Extended Storage.
Can I select a default hard drive for PS5 games?
Unfortunately, it doesn’t look like you can select a default hard drive for PS5 games at this time. While a recent update finally made it possible to store PS5 games on an external drive, they can still only be played from the internal SSD.
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