What is PS5 Console Exclusive Storage (and how to remove it) (Patreon)

Hello folks! Today I have a quick video about the Playstation 5 for  you. The reason is a bit of a longer story, so bear with me.

I've  recently invested into a couple of SanDisk USB 3.2 sticks I wanted to  use as external storage, with the intention of comparing read speeds  between USB 3.0, 3.1 and 3.2. That was supposed to be the video.

By  accident though, Amazon didn't send me the 3.1 version and I ended up  two 3.2 versions of the sticks. What a nice surprise I thought! Turns  out read speed is terrible on both drives, so I may end up returning  them for a refund. I used one drive to install PS4 games onto, but the  thing went bust and it lost all its data so I had to re-format it. No  biggie really, and there was no data loss.

Turns out though, when  this problem happens, the PS5 retains some of the game's data on its  internal hard drive and assumes I have just unplugged the stick, waiting  for me to put it back so it can play the game. There's no option to  re-install the game if the data on the USB is gone for good, nor is  there an obvious option to remove the residual. Google turned up limited  to no results. It took me a while to figure out a workaround, so that  turned out to be the video: getting to the bottom of the mysterious  Console Exclusive Data, and how to re-install a game that no longer  exists on USB storage.

Enjoy!

I have a three-part mini series in German ready to go, stay tuned for that in the next post.

In  other news, our moving plans are still somewhat up in the air. Our  landlady has found a way to not sell our current apartment, which means  for now we can stay - but for how long, and if we actually want to do  this is another matter. We're still thinking about the next steps, but  the time pressure is off for now.

​More news as it breaks!