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.

The PS5 supports external hard drives between 250GB and 8TB in capacity, but there is a caveat: you can’t play PS5 games directly from them, due to speed limitations. That doesn’t mean these ...

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 ...

Seagate's vanilla portable external hard drives, though, retail for less, $79.99 for 2TB and $129.99 for 5TB (again, less if on sale). For comparison, the biggest available portable drive, Western ...

Stacked up against the best SSDs for PS5, PS5 external hard drives are easier to install (you simply plug them into a USB port on your console) but do have one key limitation to keep in mind ...

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.