

There are also a huge number of high-quality hard drives and solid-state drives, too, making it easy to find the right one for your needs and budget.Ī traditional hard drive or mechanical drive that uses "old" hard drive technology, with mechanical platters and a moving read-write head to access data, is adequate for most people, thanks to speedier USB-C and USB 3.0 (as well as 3.1/3.2) interfaces. The PS5 and Xbox Series X can't run games off external drives, but transferring the games between the two is fast and efficient. Managing that storage space can be a huge pain in the butt, so the more storage you have the less you'll need to do that.


That makes expandable storage a necessity if you want to store a decent chunk of your library at any one time. Games are large these days, and they're only getting larger.
