

- USING SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T5 INSTALL
- USING SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T5 UPGRADE
- USING SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T5 PS4

Two minutes is an age when staring at a loading screen. That’s about half the time it would take loading from the standard internal drive. From the Xbox One dashboard to driving in the game took just under a minute. I installed Forza Horizon 4 on the T5 drive, being a game notorious for long loading times. The T5 allowed me to check out the impact of using a fast hard drive in an Xbox One X in advance of the new console release. The Xbox One’s replacement, Project Scarlett, releasing Christmas next year, will sport an SSD as standard. I opted to plug it straight into the Xbox One, replacing a flagging mechanical hard drive that I’ve been using for extended storage. Boasting speeds of up to 540 MB/s, which you’ll likely only reach using a USB Type-C cable, you’ll be torn as to whether you want to use a T5 as an external console hard drive or as fast, pocket-sized, portable storage for your media and other important data. These drives are tiny, with a footprint smaller than that of a credit card and less than 10mm thick.
USING SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T5 PS4
They come with cables for connecting to devices via either the usual USB 2.0/3.0 Type A socket (compatible with both PS4 and Xbox One) or the new USB 3.1 Type-C sockets found on newer PCs, Laptops and mobile phones. These lightweight solid-state drives come in four colours: rose gold, metallic red, deep black and alluring blue.
USING SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T5 UPGRADE
If you really want to give your console a boost at the same time as an upgrade Samsung’s Portable SSD T5 drives are worth a look. I’d hope that most long-term PS4/XB1 players would have sussed out that you can use external hard drives to increase storage space. Both the PS4 and Xbox One support external hard drives via a USB connector.
USING SAMSUNG PORTABLE SSD T5 INSTALL
Most of us have had make that difficult decision to delete old games from the hard drive in order to install something new. Both the PS4 and the Xbox One install games on hard drive rather than running games directly off a disc, unlike their predecessors. Unfortunately, neither Microsoft or Sony really thought about this when designing their latest consoles. You can never have enough hard drive space.
