File sizes have gotten lubricous over the years. Gamers know this better than anyone. Let’s look at Grand Theft Auto. When GTA 3 hit the PlayStation 2, it sat on a DVD with a max storage size of 4.7GB. Let’s fast forward to today, where the install size of PlayStation 5 version of GTA 5 clocks in around 87GB. That is a massive jump, but it’s not over yet. The highly anticipated sixth installment is set to release later this year. One can only imagine right now how much space that’ll eat up.
The PlayStation 5 launch model released with an internal storage of about 1TB. Now that would have seemed like an unfathomable amount in the days of the PS2, but today, it means you can store maybe a dozen or so games. If you’re someone with a big collection and want to be able to hop between any of them without deleting and redownloading your library, 1TB likely won’t cut it.
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Now this hard drive is labeled PS5-ready, but there is a caveat. PS5 games cannot be played directly from the drive. The system architecture of the PlayStation 5 requires a much faster loading time than this drive is capable of. What that means for you is that you can store your extra games on this drive and then transfer them over to your console’s internal storage when you are ready to play. Transferring this way is still significantly faster than needing to redownload your games each time. PlayStation 4 games, however, can be played directly from the external hard drives since they don’t have the same speed requirements that modern titles have.
