SeagateGame Drive for PlayStation® Consoles 5 TB External Hard Drive - USB 3.2 Gen 1, Officially-License (STLV5000100)

Yes it only stores PS5 games. Cannot play them directly from it. You can store and play PS4 games from the device, but your console tells you that. Overall pleased with my purchase, cleared up a lot of space.

The Seagate Game Drive for PS5 is a fantastic external HDD with plenty of storage space at 5TB. Setup is quick and easy, and the USB 3.0 connection ensures fast data transfers. The blue LED adds a nice touch, and it’s officially licensed, making it a reliable choice for expanding game storage. Note: Games cannot be played directly from the hard drive; they must be transferred back to the console to play. Highly recommend—5 stars!

Easily store and move games, backups, or media without deleting your PS5 content. Plug-and-play, fast data transfer, and solid build. A must-have for expanding your console space.

For the price, I expected this storage drive to be useful (not just some memory backup drive). When I have previously bought external HD for the ps4, i was able to download and play games as if it was part of yhe console's memory, but not this one. All this one does it let you store games you aren't actively playing to free up some space. If you want to actually go back and play your old games, you have to download your backup data right back on your console. How useless. I thought this drive (since it was "officially licensed") would work better than the off brand one i got for my ps4, but it is just worthless - like I'm backing up photos or something 🙄

I would have bought an internal HDD (the 2TB WD- Black) but I went ahead and bought this due to pricing and amount of storage. I now have over 20 games saved to this drive including all of my game captures. I have only one drawback: you're moving games back and forth. I'm not worried about corrupting saves as it seems pretty straightforward forward DO NOT UNPLUG from your PS5 (safe eject feature available when planning to store or move console). However, If I want to play a game that has 150 GB that is currently not on my internal drive, I have to move over (or previously delete) 150 GB worth of games to the Seagate and then copy the one game that I want to play. The copy process (moving the game back to the internal) takes a few minutes (10 -15) as you skip the "hard download" you would normally get from downloading a game as it is a local download and not a wireless download. The drive looks cool, isn't that much of an eye-sore as it is hidden from my view, and after much use, would pick this option again as it freed up a lot of space from my internal drive, which had a way higher price point then the drive along with less storage. Recommend it to anyone looking to boost their storage situation as we all know 1TB is NOT enough when new games average 80GB - 150GB a game.

Important! I l know that when you first set up the drive, it tells you that it’s only compatible with with ps4 games and apps, and that you “haven’t set up a compatable ps5 hard drive” but this is actually not an issue! When you go to move ps5 apps to it works just as advertised!

Works like it should. Easy to use. Decent value.

Just what I needed to expand my PS5 storage space. Very happy with the price for it's functionality.