PS5 External SSD Testing: SATA vs NVMe vs Hard Drive - Back-Compat Titles + Read/Write Speed Tests!

What’s the best way to expand your PlayStation 5 with external storage? Can you retain the loading speeds of PS4 games running on the internal SSD? Is there any advantage to choosing a more expensive NVMe drive over a SATA model? How long does it take to transfer data to and from each drive? Tom Morgan did all of the testing for this one and Rich presents - and there are results both expected and unexpected. See every loading time test we did in a more digestible table form, along with more extended analysis and more thoughts on some of the more curious results: Here are affiliate links to the hardware we used: Sabrent USB-SATA adapter: (UK) or (USA) Samsung 870 Qvo: (UK) or (USA) Asus NVMe enclosure: (UK) or (USA) Samsung 980 Pro: (UK) or https://