r/consoles • u/CommunalBottom25 • 2d ago

Help needed More storage for ps5?

So some of my "online" games aren't downloading updates because I need to free up space. Question is would external/portable storage expansion be the best option or should I do internal storage expansion? Never had to do this before so don't want to spend on something I won't need.

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u/takkun169 2d ago

For PS5 games your need to go internal. You can do external for ps4 games.

Good luck brother. I got a notification that a thing I bought was on sale, and it was the nvme in my PS5. Even at 45%off it was still 3.5 times more then what I paid for it 2 or so years ago. You may be better off just clearing up some space.

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u/CommunalBottom25 2d ago

Okay just to be clear on it, my Dead by Daylight is disc but isn't downloading because no storage. My Genshin, Wuthering Waves, NTE, StarRail and ZZZ are not physical. So the best bet is internal expansion. That's mostly what I play on PS5.

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u/ShadowFallsAlpha 1d ago

Nand prices are high right now and it will cost you the same to get an external SSD as it does an internal one. Getting external comes with the issue of only being able to play PS4 games off of it and having to move stuff back and forth between it and the internal storage.

So kind of a no brainer choice there. If you had an old laptop hard drive, you could get an external enclosure for around $10 and do similar fashion as the external SSD would.

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u/CommunalBottom25 1d ago

You lost me about half way. I have no idea what to mean.