How to Transfer Data from PS5 to PS5 Pro

I have an ssd in my PS5. Can I simply remove this from my PS5 and put it in my pro or will it format it? I have a 2tb ssd so with the PS5 storage and the ssd it is more than the pro’s storage capacity. I was planning on removing the ssd - transferring the PS5 internal storage, then plugging in the ssd after transfer. Would that work?

Yeah my saves are all in the cloud waiting for the Pro, I do have some games on my SSD so I guess I can just transfer them straight over

@MxBcardi Yes it will work, the SSD won't need formatting when you insert it into the PS5 Pro.

Same as @MxBcardi
I have a WD Black SSD drive in my PS5's M2 slot.

Can i just move this over?

If so, do I move it (The M2 drive) in before or after completing the PS5 built in SSD profile/settings/saves/screenshots/video/games transfer via network described above?

Thanks for the article - I have been wondering how this would be done.

@LiamCroft Awesome! Thank you. That’ll save a lot of downloading!

For $700, it better allow me to transfer my consciousness into it so I can achieve immortality.

Is there a way to deselect some aspects of the data transfer?

I feel like a new console is a good time to wave goodbye to the many, many gb's of video clips I've saved across the years, rather than transferring them over to clutter the new console

@Mikey856

Listen I am a discerning consumer and I know what I want. Cerny could make the consciousness transfer happen, he is just saving that for PS7. I mean, he made Knack - the man is capable of anything.

@Rich33 Was wondering this also, i would leave the m2 ssd out, complete the network transfer from console ssd to console ssd then reinsert the m2 ssd.

Thank you Liam, appreciate the tip off, Thursday can't come quick enough!!

@Jrs1
Thats the way I would probably thought was safest too (as the data transfer will identify the same user), but it would be good if you could install the M2 first as 1) it would be easier and 2) I will just want to do a 'kid in sweetshop' as soon as that transfer is done lol!

@MxBcardi Yep, the PS5 treats the SSD the same as an external harddrive - it's a secondary install location and only has to be formatted for game installs once when you're setting it up initially.

Effectively plug-and-play.

I’ll be keeping my current ps5 to be used as a blu ray player.

So best course of action for me is to do the data transfer to get all my accounts and the games on my internal SSD, then remove my extra 2TB SSD and install that in the pro.
Then factory reset the old PS5 ready for sale!

Then go to my second PS5 and do it all again!

Or if purchased digitally, you just download your games again? No?

Would be useful to have a future article on how to a PS5 and PS5 Pro in the same household sharing digital content between the two machines (I passed my PS4 to my son and that was very easy), but these two machines being in the same family makes this process slightly different.

Also good to know how different access to the SSD to swap in is.

RIP to those who traded theirs in to get a Pro

@motorrik6 Which could easily take several weeks for some people. Most people don't have super fast connections. It's not a practical solution.

Do you happen to know if you have to do this for each account stored on the ps5? Or if I use one account (my main account) to transfer, will it transfer all other accounts associated with the base ps5?

Excellent point, I did not consider that. So in my own bubble, forgetting not everyone has good internet connections.

Cheers for your comment mate. Hope you are well.
@LowDefAl

It would probably be easier to install the disc again but you still need to transfer your save files as Sony won't let you do that with a memory stick

@themightyant I have read this method is possible, yeah. I just haven't seen it in action yet so didn't want to commit to it in the guide.

Easy process. I'm ready to have this great console in my house.

So do we swap ssd after the transfer process or before ? Will the Pro know or tell you to just after the transfer swap the ssd to the pro from the older model ?

• Thank for the helpful info Liam

The easiest way is to use the ps+ to upload your games then download them to your new console. Yes you do have to pay for any ps+ sub, but by far its the simplest method, used this when I upgraded my ps4 hard drive.

@Luna-Harmony I'd personally swap over the SSD after you've done the Data Transfer of all your internal data, but I don't think it really matters.

@LiamCroft
"This is the only way to transfer save data outside of the official Data Transfer offered by Sony; there's no other way of doing it".

I believe this is incorrect. The PS5 has a backup and restore feature that includes save data. You can backup the system to an external drive and restore it on another system. See the official PS support article titled "How to back up and restore PS5 console data".

Hold up. You're telling me they removed the functionality to plug them directly into each other over ethernet?

@xDD90x Indeed. I would have expected better from Push Square. If it's explicitly confirmed somewhere that restoring a PS5 backup on PS5 Pro wouldn't work, they should have at least linked to a source for that unexpected claim.

@darthvirgin No, this article isn't entirely accurate. It should work the same way it does with PS5 to PS5. We just don't have 100% confirmation yet. But there's no reason to believe it wouldn't work from PS5 to PS5 Pro.

In the past I use the backup function from fat PS5 to slim but that takes a very long time. Does the data transfer explained here would also transfer the game lists I created? I have a few and it would be great if it can do that. When I did the backup the game lists were not transferred and had to be recreated

@MxBcardi it should work. I will do exactly the same.

@Ravix interested in this too. A lot of clips on the ol PS5 amateur that I won't need.

I have 1GB internet so will just install it all clean.

If I can transfer my 2TB SSD, I will have 4GB to play with and can install literally every game in my library that I'm likely to want to play again.

I was shocked to hear that I could transfer games by moving my SSD across though. As I thought the console always formatted new drives by default.

Only time I've ever gone to trouble to transfer something instead of simply downloading it, was my Animal Crossing Island when I got my Switch OLED.

@themightyant Yes you can and its much much faster.

I need a guide to transfer my saves from my ps5 to my PC.