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PS5 SSD Storage Upgrade Is Coming This Summer
- Thread starter Jawbreaker
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Yep. Being able to store PS5 games on an external drive would make a huge difference.
Fucking finally!
And kind of terrifying, since it's already quite a large package. You'd think they would have considered this further?
Microsoft deserves props for how they solved this problem. Despite being proprietary, it just works and it is super easy.
Not happy with the fan having to spin up. I like my quiet PS5. This sorta blows.. why did they ship PS5 with only 600GB available?
Just let us use cold storage Sony, FFS.
And kind of terrifying, since it's already quite a large package. You'd think they would have considered this further?
Microsoft deserves props for how they solved this problem. Despite being proprietary, it just works and it is super easy.
Not happy with the fan having to spin up. I like my quiet PS5. This sorta blows.. why did they ship PS5 with only 600GB available?
Just let us use cold storage Sony, FFS.
Also if I remember correctly, m2 drives that met the speed requirement didn't hit retail until last month. I'm betting they're still testing those, too.
There were m.2's that met the spec out in retail before the PS5 even launched.
The whole thing seems like a fail. How the hell did they not properly plan for the heat generated by an expansion drive?
From what I could find when people were talking about that, there was a single drive that barely met the speed requirement and was found to be too large for the slot...but now I can't find the article that talked about trying to install it, so ignore me.
Well if the news is accurate they are testing even the TDP of these things in a retail unit, hopefully
Let's just hope that faster fan profile will only be engaged if you have expansion installed, and not universally applied to everyone.
Exactly.
Apparently the cause for them not being certified was the fans not being able to cool them. The firmware update to the fans to ramp them up will fix that thou.
Considering how quiet the PS5 is, I'd take the slight noise increase. There's no way it will be louder than my old PS4 (or my old PS3 for that matter).
It's going to cost an arm and a leg. No other option's for early adopter, which is a shame. Even then only for addition 1TB, which wont be enough at all.
I can't imagine they would engage the profile all of the time unless they royally fucked things up.
Hopefully the increase in fan noise isnt substantial.
Kind of crazy the console launched without the ability to store PS5 games on an external drive.
Kind of crazy the console launched without the ability to store PS5 games on an external drive.
It's not if you got a NIDEC fan on it, those are noisy out of the box. Not PS4Pro noisy, but high pitched annoying noisy.
If you got a DELTA or NMB fan then yeah, shit's silent.
I feel NIDEC users are going to get screwed, but we'll see.
I think it's more likely the SSD that is overheating in the confined space. The newer SSD probably needs to have better cooling + fan spin increase.
I'm hoping more for better cold storage support though. Just having the ability to offload PS5 games to an external would be great.
Sony recommended PCIE gen 4 m.2s, of which there were two before the console came out: Sabrent and Samsung. And none of them would've been too large since the PS5 fits all of the m.2 SSD lengths.
Wonder if this fan boost update to enable the m.2 slot will also come with the per-game fan boost Sony mentioned a while back.
If it makes it noisy, my storage expansion solution is going to be to buy a Series X to sit alongside the PS5.
From the looks of it you can fit a small heatsink on the PS5 slot. Wonder if you'd be better just putting a thermal strip on it and letting hte fan do the rest. Or will they sell a specialized heatsink for it.
Will spin more. Sony said they will adjust the fan speed with future updates.
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Sony will optimize PS5 fan performance with software updates using individual game data
Next-gen consoles mean next-gen fans.
www.theverge.com
It's interesting to note that m.2 slot doesn't really have any vents and with metal cover installed it's pretty much sealed. I guess Sony will recommend not to use cover if you have expansion installed? Overwise I'm not seeing how increased fan speed will do much good with this slot design.
The same company that puts a fan than can't be property seated inside the console, thus needing to be elevated with o-rings (and tinkering with the screws) to make it less noisy.
Add the coil whine stuff. And this.
I love my PS5 but the quality check of this console is so bad.
/hug
Surprising, all I reports I saw said it was the most silent, maybe it was a defective one?
