Seagate 5TB Game Drive for PlayStation | USB 3.0 (STLV5000100)

I bought this drive for my grandson, and it has turned out to be great for both his PS5 and his PS4. I wanted to help him set it up on the PS5, but in his excitement, he beat me to it. He couldn’t get past the first screen after formatting the drive. (which caused a little confusion). Once I figured this out, the rest of the installation was incredibly easy. After that, everything worked exactly the way it should. He was able to install the PS4 himself. On the PS5, it gives him tons of extra space for his growing game library, and transferring games only takes a few minutes after the initial transfer. On his PS4, he says it’s even easier — plug it in and go. He loves having all his games organized in one place! Overall, this has been a fantastic purchase that he’s genuinely excited about. ⭐ Pros • Lots of storage for a great price • Easy setup • Works on both PS5 and PS4 — even simpler on PS4 • Fast transfers after initial transfer (only a few minutes per game) • Portable and small size — easy to take to a friend’s house ⚠️ Cons • Can’t play PS5 games directly from it • Requires transferring games back to the console • Might need adult supervision to set up initially

Great for holding a bunch of PS4 games on your PS5

This is a great upgrade to your PS5 but there seems to be a lot of confusion as to how it works. This is an external hard disk drive (HDD) as opposed to a more expensive, internal solid state drive (SDD). An HDD (like this one from Seagate) plugs into your PS5 with an included USB cable and allows you to store tons of games on it, but they can’t be played immediately. An SSD, on the other hand, requires installing inside your PS5 with the other components, but allows you to play games right away. A SSD is easier and faster to use, but costs considerably more per TB. For example, this Seagate 5TB HDD costs about the same as a 1TB SSD. A 5TB internal SSD will cost nearly triple what this one does. Some games take over an hour to install initially, but only ~10 minutes to transfer to your console so you can play them. So, with this Seagate HDD, you store your entire game library on it and then keep a handful of PS5 games stored directly on your console to play right away. Then, you can quickly move them back and forth between the Seagate drive and your console as you play different games. If you don’t need 5TB, or can afford a very expensive 5TB internal SSD, you should definitely get an SSD. But, if you have a lot of games and not a lot of money, this is a great option and 10 minutes to transfer a game isn’t that big of a deal in reality. So, this is a great option for people, such as myself, that aren’t willing to buy an expensive SSD with enough storage for all of their games. It’s also nice bc you can bring this external drive to use on a friends PS5 and quickly transfer the game to them, instead of waiting an hour for it to download or bringing your entire console with you. So, in summary, this Seagate HDD is cheap, has lots of memory, and requires about 10 minutes to move games around when you finish one and want to get other games ready to go. Whereas an internal SSD is expensive, has less memory, but allows all of your games to be played right away. In my experience, having 6 or 7 games on your console at a time and then these rest on an HDD to transfer quickly when you want to, is a fantastic and budget-friendly option. The drive itself is high quality, looks great, and pairs perfectly with the white PS5 console. I definitely recommend it!

So I bought 2 of these, one for me and one for my boyfriend and it’s such a relief to have the extra space on our playstation 5s. They are a little expensive but well worth it! It takes a couple minutes (if that) to transfer a game onto the hard drive and we take them everywhere we go when we take the playstations (we travel a lot). This makes a great gift for a gamer!

Just installed. So far so good. Easy to hook up and install/format extended storage. You're unable to move screenshots and recordings to extended storage though and also unable to move games with main data saved to them which is a lot. But it's good for saving and having some extra space for games you don't have space for. Unfortunately you cannot play PS5 games directly from extended storage either you just have to copy them back to PlayStation to play. So I'm in the middle when it comes to if it's really worth the price or not. Easy connectivity and easy to use but missing important features on my opinion. Good quality. Sleek and compact/portable designm not noisy. Simple and functional. Lightweight. Overall recommend if you're in need of storage your PS is lacking.

This thing is great! Plug it in, format and download your games. Leave your game console storage frre

Been shopping for quite some time for a solid external drive. Never give wrong with Seagate. Was super easy to use and connect with very little noise great compact design. Transfers and loads games super quick. The RGB lights on it really compliment my PS5's.

So far so good. The reason I'm r rating so low is because I'm having issues with the insurance. When I try to purchase this a couple weeks back the system will not allow me to do it because of my address but if you email the insurance the address and have nothing to do with it I have contact the seller like Amazon said have not heard back from them I contact Amazon I have got to run around false information was given all I could do is go by what Amazon is telling me. I also have screenshots of the proof of what was said. Now Amazon is not standing by what was told to me by 3 to 4 different reps on the chat line . I'm still trying to add insurance on this item pay too much money to not get any help with adding insurance. But so far the memory card is awesome it rating is a 5 but it will be even better if I can add the insurance that I have been trying to add before the item was even purchased. ( Having issues addressing the insurance system wouldn't take address) I was lied to by Amazon needing help with the insurance before my time expires I tried to settle this without writing anybody a bad review. But this should not lead up to this. I should have gotten help when I was trying to buy this month ago I got tired of waiting I was told to go ahead and get the item then I can add the insurance. the email that I found off of here it's not correct I have been searching to get a touch with someone that can help

Excelente vale su precio, puedes jugar directamente de este disco duro juegos de ps4 en ps5 y ya la memoria del ps5 la dejas para solo los de nueva generación. Aún que algo cara yo la compré en oferta y si vale la pena.

Buckets of storage but a little annoying that PS5 games won't play directly from this drive.

Not bad. So far no problem

Good performance

The design and compact size of this drive look beautiful next to the PS5. The fact that it is certified by PlayStation tells me it is reliable and for sure compatible. It is very easy to install. Just plug and transfer. However, the only known negative point is that you can’t play PS5 games straight from this external drive. I still love it and recommend it if you have a lot of previous gen games or don’t mind the transferring before playing.