The PlayStation 5 comes with a lot of exciting features including support for 120Hz gaming, as well as the new DualSense controller with its adaptive triggers. However, the console only comes with a relatively tiny 825GB SSD. That means you’ll be hard pressed to install many games on your console. Fortunately, you can at least install your PS4 games on an external hard disk and play them on your PS5. So, here’s how to install games on external hard disk in PlayStation 5.
Since all the next-gen games make use of the PlayStation 5’s high-speed SSD, you can’t transfer them to external storage. However, there are a lot of PS4 games that you might be playing on your new console. You can easily install these games on external hard disks or external SSDs on PlayStation 5 to save space on your console’s extremely limited SSD.
- Format External Hard Disk to Store PS4 Games
- Enable/Disable Installing Games on Extended Storage
- Eject or Disconnect External Hard Disk from PS5
Format External Hard Disk to Store PS4 Games
If you’re connecting a new hard disk to store PS4 games on, you will have to first format it with your console. Here’s how you can do that.
- Connect your external hard disk or SSD to the PS5 console.
- Go to Settings -> Storage.
Once you have set up an extended storage device for your PlayStation, it will, by default, install new PS4 games on the extended storage. This way you don’t need to worry about last-gen games taking up precious space on your SSD. However, if you don’t want this feature, you can easily disable it as well.
- Go to Settings -> Storage.
Now, most of the time, I think you probably just remove your external hard disks from your PS5 by yanking the cable out the port. That’s not recommended and can result in data loss, and it can even corrupt your hard disk. So, here’s how you can disconnect and eject an external hard disk from your PS5 in order to plug it out of your console.
- Select ‘Extended Storage’ and click on ‘Safely Remove from PS5’
