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Anybody done this? Looks very easy from Sony's own video. A question though, I want to add a 2TB SSD - does that boost the total storage to 2.825TB, or... do you have to choose between the 825GB built in and the 2TB?
If the latter, how does the PS5 know where to pull the OS and games from and can you use the drive that's not being used for OS as game storage (i.e. dragging games over to the OS side when needed.) Just wondering how seamless it is in real life operation.
Oo, I just did this a few days ago. It is as easy as it looks. The new storage is in addition to the built in so you'll end up with 2.85GB.
Once it's installed and formatted (took a couple of minutes, if that) you can select games in your library and move them to the second SSD. I haven't actually played the game I moved over since doing it, but as I understood it you can just play them without doing anything extra. Unlike the external HDDs where you can 'store' the game but have to copy it across to the internal storage before you can play it.
For some reason my PS5 didn't recognise the storage the first time I did it. But I opened it back up, removed and refitted the drive and then it worked.
Dead easy to do and prices have plummeted. Yes, it keeps the original storage, makes it a lot easier with the games capacity getting much bigger.
https://uk.crucial.com/ssd/p5-plus/ct2000p5pssd5
Great stuff, thanks. So you can select games to play in the normal way without having to direct the OS where to look?
Yep, easy to do even for a luddite like me. The only time you'll have to do anything is if you've saved a PS5 game to an external SSD, then you'll just have to save it to console prior to play. Otherwise it's click and play as normal (all my PS5 games are store on console so i've never had to do anything)
You just pick the game yeah.
However, you need to change your default storage to your extra drive so it stores any new ones on there.Â
Great stuff, thanks. So you can select games to play in the normal way without having to direct the OS where to look?
Yes, that's right.
Thanks all, memory now bought and job jobbed (almost - just need to ham-fist the thing in there first 🙂 )
TBH, I almost bought an external 2TB SSD drive, resigned to the fact I'd be pulling games back and forth as needed (or when the kids needed more likely.)Â I'd not even considered that the internal memory was upgradeable until I stumbled on Sony's own 'how to'. Mindset from a lifetime of Apple products no doubt...