What storage expansion actually works, by console

Getting this asked a lot now so putting it somewhere findable.

On PlayStation you can add an internal drive of the correct type, or use external storage for archiving only. On Xbox the official expansion card is the simple route and external drives again only archive.

The thing people get wrong: external drives cannot run current generation games on either console. You can store the game there and copy it back, which is faster than downloading again but is not the same as installing to it.

Anyone with a correction, post it and I will edit.

preloadwatch5w ago

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keysrunner_885w agoHaven't played

The external drive point is the one people get wrong every single generation and it costs them a day of downloading. Worth having somewhere findable.

kalaga_hiker5w agoHaven't played

Series S owners should read this twice. The internal is small and the game is not.

vicebeachcam5w agoHaven't played

That price movement is itself the argument for the whole thread. The advice is only useful in July, which is why it is being posted in July.

preloadwatch5w agoHaven't played

Fair, editing that in. Faster than downloading assumes a reasonable drive and an unreasonable connection.

chaceysprairie4d agoHaven't played

bought the expansion in july off one of these threads and it has already gone up twice since. genuinely useful forum

codeinabox5w agoHaven't played

Correction on one detail: archiving to external and copying back is substantially faster than redownloading only if your external is decent. A cheap old drive can be slower than a good connection.

justhereforonline5w agoHaven't played

bought my expansion card in june purely because of one of these threads and it has already gone up in price twice since

oceandr19866d agoHaven't played

Late addition: check your free space after the preload too, because the patch needs headroom on top of what the game already took.

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