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Eh, sorta, except they're missing the required heatsink. The $225 option w/ the heatsink (VP4300) seems pretty solid though.
List of compatible SSDs according to Digital Foundry
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List of compatible SSDs according to Digital Foundry:
Thanks for sharing! I can grab that cheap £2.99 heatsink then lol
Looks like there's 1x $199 option that has the heatsink included.
I'm going to wait until this feature is publicly available and a few of these drives have been run through their paces, but I'm thinking getting a 1 tb drive will be all I need for the rest of the gen. I might plug in an external for cold storage at some point, but 2tb should hold me over for PS5-centric speeds.
Insane that Sony is asking for buyers to not only buy and install a SSD but to also put a heatsink on it. I don't see the causal user doing all this.
I am hopeful that we will see PS5 branded ones that are ready to go.
The Gibabyte Aorus one is 1TB with a heat sink and has a 7000 mb read speed and a 5500 mb write speed. That one seems like the best at $199.
I don't see any casual user doing any of this, ever. Normal people play four games tops, they don't need to expand storage.
I got $170 in CC points laying around. I'll give that gigabyte a go.
Hypothetically would the firecuda 530 4TB version fit? Or just the 1TB?
FireCuda 530 M.2 SSD | Seagate US
Experience exhilarating speed with FireCuda® 530 SSD, up to 7300MB/s, 2x faster than PCIe Gen3, perfect for accelerated gaming.
www.seagate.com
Whilst I'm not going to invest immediately, I'm very interested in the Samsung 980 Pro. Anyone have any recommendations for a heatsink that'd pair well with it? Never had an SSD like this before so wanna make sure I get it right.
Kinda thinking between that and the Gigabyte Aorus as it's around that £170 - £190 region I was hoping for.
Kinda thinking between that and the Gigabyte Aorus as it's around that £170 - £190 region I was hoping for.
Yeah they'd be silly to not bring "memory cards" back. Xbox is doing, PlayStation might as well follow.
I also assume Sony is going to put out tighter messaging when this feature is publicly available and not confined to a beta test.
The physical dimensions are all the same, a 4TB version will fit just as well as a 1TB version.Hypothetically would the firecuda 530 4TB version fit? Or just the 1TB?
FireCuda 530 M.2 SSD | Seagate US
Experience exhilarating speed with FireCuda® 530 SSD, up to 7300MB/s, 2x faster than PCIe Gen3, perfect for accelerated gaming.www.seagate.com
I don't think that's necessarily true when one of those games uses over 200GB in space.
My concern is Sony curating a list of drives when Sony has, historically, not been great about this sort of thing. The fact that the space is that tight and that people need to ensure that they purchase a drive that doesn't exceed these dimensions is sort of the icing on the cake. It's strange to me that Sony couldn't just make a proprietary drive slot and sell an enclosure for people who wanted to bring their own drive, as that'd at least allow people who wanted to purchase a PlayStation-branded drive and install it without tools.
Last month the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB was on sale on Amazon Germany for around 140 euro. Maybe should have picked it up back then....
But honestly I don't need the extra space atm. I'm perfectly fine with having around 5 games installed.
Think I'll just wait and see what the inevitable PS5 Pro will have to offer in a few years. Maybe it has more storage and I won't even need an extra ssd.
But honestly I don't need the extra space atm. I'm perfectly fine with having around 5 games installed.
Think I'll just wait and see what the inevitable PS5 Pro will have to offer in a few years. Maybe it has more storage and I won't even need an extra ssd.
It's not something they're requiring or asking of you though, just another option to broaden the range of choices you have if you choose to expand. The 'casual user' can always just pick up a unit Sony recommends, and not bother with these other options. Arbitrarily locking out that option would be bizarre, why should PS5 know or care if the heatsink was user installed or manufacturer installed.
Why would they do that to people? People bitched forever about VITA cards being proprietary. This is the correct way to allow for upgrades not proprietary things. This is not rocket science for someone who wants to actually upgrade their drive. Most people will go through the whole gen just deleting games they dont use, or just cold store their games.
The casual user is probably not even aware of the expansion bay existing and likely will never need it
The vast majority of people will just pick up a usb external drive for cold storage if they have space issues. Those who are savvy enough will find easy instructions on expanding the internal memory.
I signed up so hopefully me, lol. I already ordered one this morning. The WD SN850, no heat sink.
Knowing Sony's history with proprietary storage, I don't think anyone would want that lol.
I got the 2TB with heatsink a few minutes ago
Amazon allowed me to do 5 payments so might as well instead of dropping $430 now lol
Damn, that was fast. Nice....
I never expected to see push back for allowing off the shelf drives....yet here we are.
Wild.
This is nothing new for Sony, handhelds is where they went against the norm for them. Every home console they had that could use hard drives used off the shelf drives. They we could replace.
they'd still have to be installed internally, as opposed to xbox's plug and play method.
Damn, lol. My pockets stop at 1TB.
Damn that Gigabyte with a heatsink in the threadmark for $199 looks like a good deal.
Best 2TB price for one of the ones that are compatible and comes with a heatsink might be the Aorus one.
$410 for the 2TB with heatsink.
www.tomshardware.com
www.kitguru.net
Amazon.com: GIGABYTE AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2, Nanocarbon Coated Aluminum Heatsink, 3D TLC NAND, SSD- GP-AG70S2TB: Computers & Accessories
Amazon.com: GIGABYTE AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe M.2, Nanocarbon Coated Aluminum Heatsink, 3D TLC NAND, SSD- GP-AG70S2TB: Computers & Accessories
www.amazon.com
$410 for the 2TB with heatsink.
Gigabyte Aorus Gen4 7000s M.2 NVMe SSD Review: Nanocarbon Cooled for Speed (Updated)
Gigabyte’s Aorus Gen4 7000s is fast, secure, and keeps cool thanks to a sleek heatsink and nanocarbon coating
Gigabyte Aorus 7000s 2TB SSD Review - KitGuru
Gigabyte's Aorus 7000s family of SSDs is the company's flagship PCIe Gen4 single-drive range (Gigaby
www.kitguru.net
I think I'll be fine with a 1TB for now. I can just drop it in my PC when 2-4TB models are more affordable. Another reason I'm very glad Sony went with this route.
But What if grandma gets confused by having to not only buy a drive but also take off the PS5 shell, trying install a heat sink and the drive?
I much prefer them using standard M2 drives rather than proprietary designs. It may be a little more difficult for the less technically inclined, but that's nothing some official branding for SSDs (and maybe a Youtube tutorial) can't fix.
If people can figure out how to install an SD card to their phone, they can figure this out.
One thing that made me jump to using NVMe fast for external use was the transfer speeds. This sounds good....
The PS5 version of lil Timmy.... 😔
I haven't noticed any yet, but this is a super fast drive so it should be fine. I'm curious to see what happens on slower drives even under the 5,500 recommendation, though.
You literally just screw it on and put some stickers on it (thermal pads).
If that's too difficult, you can buy ones with heatsinks already attached.
Good to know. Which model did you use? I have the gigabyte one on order that DF recommended.
I would suppose anything less than 5500MB will fail that benchmark that does at the beginning of your video?
I had to remove a screw on the back of my N3DS XL to install a micro sd card. IKEA products are harder to build together in comparison to the PS5 :p. I think many "casual" user will be able to do this xd. There will probably be an install video too.
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