Make sure you check out our best external hard drives buying guide for advice on buying these devices for more general use, and check out our PS5 restock news if you're having trouble buying a PS5 in the first place. Sony will be adding a feature that allows you to add another internal SSD into the PS5, but until that arrives, buying the best external hard drives for PS5 is the only way to expand the storage space of the console. That might not seem especially useful, but if you're downloading your games rather than buying them on disc (who does that any more?) then you'll quickly see the benefit. Remove the hard drive from the Xbox One console, and connect it to a Windows PC using an HDD Enclosure or SATA to USB converter cable. In short, you can't play PS5 games directly from an external hard drive (although you can, for whatever reason, play PS4 games from one, and if it's an SSD they'll load faster than ever before), but you can use it to store games when you're not playing them and make room on the internal drive for other titles. From the drop-down below Partition Layout, select the number of partitions you want. Thankfully the PS5 supports external hard drives as long as they have USB 3.1 connections, but it helps to read the small print. To create a partition, select the hard drive from the left column and click the Partition tab. This means that you only have around 667GB of storage to play with, and it won't take many AAA games to eat up most of it.