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[ShadowkillXNA]

I have a WD Easystore 8gb hard drive connected to my ps5 that I use for ps4 games and ps5 games that I'm not currently playing. It has about 3 gigs of games on it.
When I turn the ps5 on, either from rest mode or completely powered off, it takes almost a full minute before the games or the drive itself are usable.
Is this normal? I've had the ps5 since launch but almost all of my playtime has been in games on the internal storage or the ssd I added.
It takes about a minute after you're able to control the ps5 ui after boot until the drive is usable.

 

[FatallyYours]

I've got an ancient WD 1tb drive connected to mine. Been using it since at least the PS4 Pro release

From rest mode it's instant access to anything on there, and from a full switch off and boot up its about 15/20 seconds until the games become available to click on and load up (I'm playing 2 point hospital and LA noire from the drive right now)

 

[CLW]

I have had this problem with mine ever since I got the Pro I need to test on my base to see if the drive has gone bad or something else

 

[ShadowkillXNA]

I have had this problem with mine ever since I got the Pro I need to test on my base to see if the drive has gone bad or something else

The games play fine, it's just slow to be usable.

 

[Magic Carpet]

Could the drive itself be wearing out? 8GB thumb drive?

 

[CLW]

The games play fine, it's just slow to be usable.

Same takes SEVERAL minutes on boot to read the drive and have them useable. I usually get a little hard drive cylinder icon on my screen

 

[Danny22]

Isn't this pretty normal? Mine doesn't even load up sometimes and I have to reboot the console

 

[Pasta la Vista]

Yeah it usually takes a little under a minute for my external drive after a complete restart.

EDIT: No issues from rest mode though.

 

[DeepEnigma]

My external SSD for PS4 games is instant on reboot or from sleep.