Of course, price plays a big factor as well, so we've tried to find the best deals on each of the drives we recommend for readers in the US and UK. To make our picks, we considered core specs like speed, interface and capacity, as well as each drive's reputation for reliability and durability. Here are the best external drives for PS4 and Xbox One, including both traditional spinning disk hard drives - the best value option - and more expensive but substantially faster external SSDs.

Thankfully, the slow internal drives in even the Xbox One X and PlayStation 4 Pro means that expanding your storage is both cheap and effective. When you first buy a new PlayStation or Xbox, its internal storage seems limitless - but when you've got all your games installed and the tenth consecutive 40GB plus Call of Duty Warzone update arrives, things feel a lot different.