How to Back Up PS5 Games to an External Drive
The PlayStation 5 comes with a rather tight 667GB of available storage out of the box, but you don’t have to delete and redownload your PS5 games over and over, as long as you have a USB hard drive handy.
Most USB hard drives and SSDs will work as extended storage for a PS5. However, they need to conform to several minimum requirements:
When you first connect your drive to the PS5, you’ll have to format it as Extended Storage. Go to Settings > Storage > USB Extended Storage > Format as USB Extended Storage.
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USB Extended Storage can be used to play PS4 games directly. There’s no need to have these games take up space on your PS5’s internal SSD. However, some PS4 games benefit from the increased speed of the internal SSD, just not to the same degree as native PS5 games.
As a compromise, you may consider using an external SSD for PS4 games that benefit from SSD speed delivered over USB, but are wasted on the hyper-fast internal SSD. Open-world games such as Assassin’s Creed Origins are prime examples.
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Since the maximum speed of the USB ports on the PS5 is still many times slower than the internal SSD, it doesn’t matter how fast the drive you connect externally performs. PS5 games cannot be played from USB storage.
While PS5 games can’t be played from a USB drive, you can archive your PS5 games to an external drive. When you want to play the game again, you can easily copy it back from the external drive to
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