First, make sure your external drive supports USB 3.1, and if it does, then you're good to go. To get started: Turn on the console. Plug the external drive into one of the Xbox's USB ports.

Step 2: If your laptop has a hard drive, or older 2.5-inch SATA SSD, you should see it locked in place with a few screws and a pair of cables. Remove all of those before gently pulling the drive free.

Assuming we’re talking about external hard drives, rather than the kind of SSD you can install in your console, the difference between an external HDD and an external SSD may not be as large as ...

Space might be a bit of an issue in the next generation, with bigger games perhaps pushing downloads closer to 50GB in some cases. While the PS4 will come with 500GB of internal storage, I can see ...

However, if you install the game to external storage, ... Connect the external hard drive directly to the PS5’s rear USB 3.0 ports and not through a hub or other device.