PS5 external USB storage

[kluckie13]

This is concerning the external USB expanded storage of the PlayStation 5 not the recently supported internal M.2 expanded storage as well as external HDD/SSD tech and limitations.

 

By reading the PlayStation support page it appears that the USB ports max throughput is a single lane at 10 Gbit/s (3.1 aka 3.1 gen 2 connection aka 3.2 gen 2 x 1, USB forum rally f'd up 3.0's naming). My question are most external drives just standard 2.5" or 3.5" hdds or ssds with an enclosure using SATA 3 which has a max throughput of 6 Gbit/s or are they able to utilize the full bandwidth? Also, if there is PS5 gamers that use a 5 Gbit/s (3.0 aka 3.1 gen 1 aka 3.2 gen 1 x 1) how is the experience of playing PS4 games off it? If the experience is fine and most external drives have bottlenecks I'll probably just buy an enclosure and use a commodity SATA drive.