Will this external HDD work with installing PS4 games on?

Can you actually play the games off them? I put a 1tb hd in my PS4 and put the 500gb one in it's case and used that as a buck up. But I recall you couldn't actually boot and play the games from an external.


This was from February,

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“With this update, you have the option to store content to an external HDD. Just plug a USB 3.0 HDD into your PS4, and voilà, you now have more space on the console.”

The update supports USB 3.0 hard drives up to 8 TB in size, and you will be given the option to install and download games directly to the external hard drive. “Also, all the applications saved in the external HDD will appear in the Content Launcher of the Home Screen so it’s easy to keep track of what apps you launched recently,” t

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So you should be good, and this is freaking awesome news. I was looking to clear some space, some disc based games take up more space than the ones I downloaded digitally, now I won't have to delete games and download them again if I want to play them down the road.

You can copy any game to external now disc or digital

Yes. I have it. I used it on my PS4 and when I got my PS5 it was just plug and play transfer. Can play PS4 games off it, not PS5.

Only thing is if power goes out you have to troubleshoot the reinstall and it takes like 15m