Hey sorry I didn’t get any email notifications that people had replied so only just saw these.

Interesting, so obviously I have no way of running benchmarking software on the PS5 – but what I did was simply timed moving approx 200GB (I think it was) of games from the internal drive to the external wd_black drive – from that I came to around 2000-2300MB/s.

– But if the port is 10Gbit – I agree I don’t see how this can be possible.

I think either I measured it incorrectly, or the PS5 did some sort of compression during the data migration?

Hi,

I’m curious on a few things. One the ports on the ps5 are 10 gigabits per secodn which means that should be impossible, 2 I have one of these drives also and to transfer medievil ps4 which is 38GB to it it takes 1 min 48 seconds, and to transfer it back to the ps5 takes 4 minutes and 48 seconds.

How to hell are you getting those speeds? Mine is effectively running at HDD speeds with the ps5, but not with my PC.

Thank you for your assistance. Great to have people jump in!

For internal storage expansion and or new “optimized for PS5” game playback, yes.

For legacy gaming or backups, no. Similar situation with XBox, new games have to be on intneral SSD, old games can play from legacy USB drives just fine.