It doesn’t matter if your external drive is a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD), you can use it on PS5 as long as it uses USB 3.0 or later. USB 2.0 external hard drives won’t work.

The PS5's hard drive is proving key to how Sony is delivering its next-generation vision. At the core is an SSD (solid state drive, which where game downloads will be installed) in every console ...