List of PS5 Compatible SSDs* - Page 13 - Blu-ray Forum

DMC86X · 02-23-2022, 04:25 AM

Got the 1tb Firecuda. I’m pretty happy with it. Found it surprisingly at Walmart for $217. Sony really nailed the customizing aspect of the ps5 as a whole.

Havok83 · 04-14-2022, 03:24 PM

For those that have upgraded, is a heat sink absolutely neccesary? Has anyone added an SSD without one and what has been the experience os far?

Mavrick · 04-14-2022, 03:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Havok83

For those that have upgraded, is a heat sink absolutely neccesary? Has anyone added an SSD without one and what has been the experience os far?

Can’t speak from personal experience but I can’t say I’ve read any negative reports about not using a heatsink.

I know there were loads of speed tests and some games did load faster on the SSD with a heatsink vs the same one without. But it was negligible.

You can get some pretty cheap heatsinks for the PS5 though so it might be worth getting one anyway as a just in case thing.

Batman90 · 04-14-2022, 04:35 PM

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Originally Posted by Havok83

For those that have upgraded, is a heat sink absolutely neccesary? Has anyone added an SSD without one and what has been the experience os far?

Sony says it’s best to have a heat sink. I haven’t had any issues with mine at all.

Derb · 04-15-2022, 07:18 AM

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Originally Posted by Havok83

For those that have upgraded, is a heat sink absolutely neccesary? Has anyone added an SSD without one and what has been the experience os far?

I use a heatsink. Wether it’s necessary depends on how long you want your SSD to last?

In the beta there were a few YouTubers who didn’t use a heatsink & said they had no issue.

After doing my own research, Gen 4 SSDs without a heatsink can exceed 90c. All Gen 4’s recommendations say to not exceed 75c

A heatsink will lower temps to an average of 60c under heavy reads/writes. Basically when you move a file to the M.2 either by copy or download, they’ll achieve the highest temperatures. Reading games is typically below 60c with a heatsink & 75+c without one.

Mavrick · 05-16-2022, 08:07 PM

Just installed a 1TB SN850 with heatsink. Was reduced to £134 and I was getting fed up of deleting games that I wasn’t ready to put away just to install the next game. Really would have preferred 2TB but those prices are taking their sweet sweet time to come down.

Mavrick · 07-11-2022, 07:48 PM

https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb...KW0010BBK-WRSN

There’s a licensed version WD SSD now.

heyadol · 07-11-2022, 08:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Mavrick

https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb...KW0010BBK-WRSN

There’s a licensed version WD SSD now.

Nice to see the 2TB price has officially dropped. Does the LED serve a purpose if it is hidden by the PS5 console cover? Not that I would replace the one I installed for a little blue light...

emailking · 07-22-2022, 12:06 AM

Video makes to so easy to take the PS5 case off when it is quite hard.

NARMAK · 07-24-2022, 05:48 PM

I think prices for the 1Tb have fallen down well enough and i recently picked one up, heatsink i purchased separately for costs but it's ridiculous how high the 2TB versions still are. It's fortunate then that the additional upgrade adds to the PS5 storage but still not the greatest situation.

Lozin · 07-27-2022, 08:14 PM

I want to get the 4tb WD Black when it drops in price or at least the 2tb, no way would the 1tb be enough space as I don't plan on getting anymore drives this generation.

cricepng · 01-17-2023, 03:08 AM

A month from today I will be stateside and can get my hands on my WD Black 2TB drive that I bought in October. for $208 + tax I won't be able to put it in the PS5 until I get back to Papua New Guinea the end of February. But I'm looking forward to having more storage. Even with moving my PS4 downloads to an external drive, my internal storage is close to full.

NARMAK · 01-17-2023, 07:44 AM

Honestly, after upgrading to a 1TB, things are much improved for my storage situation but i do think the memory greed reared it's head when i got a £50 Amazon gift card and was thinking how it would make a 2TB NVMe about £110ish to buy when they went on offer.

That said, i don't currently need it and the storage is managed well. I just dislike though how it reserves more and more storage on the drive for games, even say if you hook up an external HDD with all PS4 games.

I think for me, the variety of NVMe drives that are compatible right now is great and with the faster versions due soon, these will end up even cheaper.

cricepng · 01-17-2023, 08:31 AM

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Originally Posted by NARMAK

I think for me, the variety of NVMe drives that are compatible right now is great and with the faster versions due soon, these will end up even cheaper.

Yeah the competition and spec requirements are the advantage that the PS5 has over the XSX/S when it comes to expanded storage. Easy to find a PS5-compatible 2TB NVME at about the same price as the 1TB Seagate Xbox drive.

I wonder if there is a length for the exclusivity on the Seagate-Xbox licensing that will one day result in more competition and lower prices.

bhampton · 01-19-2023, 12:11 PM

I'm using this one....

2TB GAMMIX S70 Blade
https://a.co/d/1mQmzfA

Comes with a heat spreader instead of a heat sink ..... Seems to work perfectly. It was $30 less when I bought it last week. ($179)

cathexist · 01-19-2023, 01:38 PM

Just randomly sharing:

I initially got a samsung ssd from Best Buy. Installed it in my PS5 and was expecting the format message when I booted backup. No message, so thought that was odd. When I looked on the drive, there were like 20 games installed from someone else on this sealed, brand new ssd.

Funny thing...I called Best Buy and the rep said "sometimes they come preinstalled with games." Which I chuckled about and said, no, they don't, these are someone's else's games that I don't have access to because I didn't buy them.

Returned the drive and eventually snagged a western digital which is working great. I'm sure the samsung would have worked fine and I could just reformat it, I just didn't like the idea of a sealed product having someone else's stuff on it and found it a bit funny.

NARMAK · 01-19-2023, 01:43 PM

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Originally Posted by cathexist

Just randomly sharing:

I initially got a samsung ssd from Best Buy. Installed it in my PS5 and was expecting the format message when I booted backup. No message, so thought that was odd. When I looked on the drive, there were like 20 games installed from someone else on this sealed, brand new ssd.

Funny thing...I called Best Buy and the rep said "sometimes they come preinstalled with games." Which I chuckled about and said, no, they don't, these are someone's else's games that I don't have access to because I didn't buy them.

Returned the drive and eventually snagged a western digital which is working great. I'm sure the samsung would have worked fine and I could just reformat it, I just didn't like the idea of a sealed product having someone else's stuff on it and found it a bit funny.

That's really, really weird. Somehow i've heard of scams but completely factory sealed looking boxes would be different to saya shrinkwrap scam.

Personally i am glad these drives are coming down quicker again and it bodes well for the future. The PS6 or whatever next gen consoles we have are likely to be able to use the next 5.0 gen and be even faster and hopefully truly usher in the potential PS5 exclusives showed off in games like Ratchet & Clank to instantly zip in and out of game areas.

cathexist · 01-19-2023, 02:11 PM

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Originally Posted by NARMAK

That's really, really weird. Somehow i've heard of scams but completely factory sealed looking boxes would be different to saya shrinkwrap scam.

Personally i am glad these drives are coming down quicker again and it bodes well for the future. The PS6 or whatever next gen consoles we have are likely to be able to use the next 5.0 gen and be even faster and hopefully truly usher in the potential PS5 exclusives showed off in games like Ratchet & Clank to instantly zip in and out of game areas.

Yeah, it was just odd that it was a reputable brand and store, with the tamper tape in place and everything...at least the return process was painless.

And yeah, definitely great that the prices are staying reasonable and seem to keep going down as time goes on. I'd love to get more space for my Series X as well, but since they only have the one option from seagate, that price has stayed pretty high...twice as much as I paid for the western digital for my PS5.

cricepng · 01-19-2023, 08:39 PM

Just picked up a 1TB Corsair for my son for $80. Spent another $9 on basic heatsink. It won't arrive for another week and a half.

https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B098WL46RS/

NARMAK · 03-12-2023, 11:42 PM

The prices on the NVMe drives are coming down nicely and i've got to be honest, i'm super tempted to try and grab a 2TB sometime soon, even though i got quite a bit of space left on the 1TB i upgraded to a while back.

I think it's interesting that the speeds are slowly shifting up again in the PC space to 7000Mb/s plus, so i am curious what speed the next gen consoles after PS5 would end up with considering there's reports this gen is going to be as long as PS4 was.

I know there's more than 2TB available but the fact you can pick up a solid 2TB drive for around £150 or less on offer now, it's getting pretty good value equivalent to what NVMe drives did cost, but still a little bit off what mechanical HDD drives cost.

01-19-2023, 12:11 PM	#15
bhampton Blu-ray Count Member since:Aug 2007 4K collection:981 Blu-ray collection:2537 DVD collection:67 Blu-ray reviews: 6 Trading Score:18	I'm using this one.... 2TB GAMMIX S70 Blade https://a.co/d/1mQmzfA Comes with a heat spreader instead of a heat sink ..... Seems to work perfectly. It was $30 less when I bought it last week. ($179) Last edited by bhampton; 01-19-2023 at 12:19 PM.

02-23-2022, 04:25 AM	#1
DMC86X Power Member Member since:Apr 2009 Location:Baton Rouge, LA Blu-ray collection:24 Trading Score:90	Got the 1tb Firecuda. I’m pretty happy with it. Found it surprisingly at Walmart for $217. Sony really nailed the customizing aspect of the ps5 as a whole.

04-14-2022, 03:24 PM	#2
Havok83 Blu-ray Champion Member since:Sep 2007 Blu-ray collection:147 Trading Score:6	For those that have upgraded, is a heat sink absolutely neccesary? Has anyone added an SSD without one and what has been the experience os far?

05-16-2022, 08:07 PM	#6
Mavrick Gaming Moderator Top contributor Member since:Dec 2008 Location:Wales Home Theater Gallery:121 4K collection:62 Blu-ray collection:813 iTunes collection:1 Blu-ray reviews:5 Trading Score:1	Just installed a 1TB SN850 with heatsink. Was reduced to £134 and I was getting fed up of deleting games that I wasn’t ready to put away just to install the next game. Really would have preferred 2TB but those prices are taking their sweet sweet time to come down.

07-11-2022, 07:48 PM	#7
Mavrick Gaming Moderator Top contributor Member since:Dec 2008 Location:Wales Home Theater Gallery:121 4K collection:62 Blu-ray collection:813 iTunes collection:1 Blu-ray reviews:5 Trading Score:1	https://www.westerndigital.com/en-gb...KW0010BBK-WRSN There’s a licensed version WD SSD now.

07-22-2022, 12:06 AM	#9
emailking Blu-ray Knight Member since:Aug 2015	Video makes to so easy to take the PS5 case off when it is quite hard.

07-24-2022, 05:48 PM	#10
NARMAK Blu-ray Prince Member since:Feb 2007 Location:United Kingdom Blu-ray collection:141 Trading Score:18	I think prices for the 1Tb have fallen down well enough and i recently picked one up, heatsink i purchased separately for costs but it's ridiculous how high the 2TB versions still are. It's fortunate then that the additional upgrade adds to the PS5 storage but still not the greatest situation.

07-27-2022, 08:14 PM	#11
Lozin Senior Member Member since:Sep 2017 4K collection:224 Blu-ray collection:1233 DVD collection:414 Digital collection:84 iTunes collection:323	I want to get the 4tb WD Black when it drops in price or at least the 2tb, no way would the 1tb be enough space as I don't plan on getting anymore drives this generation.

01-17-2023, 03:08 AM	#12
cricepng Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Jan 2013 Location:alternates between Papua New Guinea and Pennsylvania Home Theater Gallery:14 4K collection:438 Blu-ray collection:1611 DVD collection:311 Digital collection:658 Blu-ray reviews: 4 Trading Score:12	A month from today I will be stateside and can get my hands on my WD Black 2TB drive that I bought in October. for $208 + tax I won't be able to put it in the PS5 until I get back to Papua New Guinea the end of February. But I'm looking forward to having more storage. Even with moving my PS4 downloads to an external drive, my internal storage is close to full.

01-17-2023, 07:44 AM	#13
NARMAK Blu-ray Prince Member since:Feb 2007 Location:United Kingdom Blu-ray collection:141 Trading Score:18	Honestly, after upgrading to a 1TB, things are much improved for my storage situation but i do think the memory greed reared it's head when i got a £50 Amazon gift card and was thinking how it would make a 2TB NVMe about £110ish to buy when they went on offer. That said, i don't currently need it and the storage is managed well. I just dislike though how it reserves more and more storage on the drive for games, even say if you hook up an external HDD with all PS4 games. I think for me, the variety of NVMe drives that are compatible right now is great and with the faster versions due soon, these will end up even cheaper.

01-19-2023, 01:38 PM	#16
cathexist Blu-ray Samurai Member since:Jul 2007 Location:Aurora, CO 4K collection:302 Blu-ray collection:1253 DVD collection:73 Blu-ray reviews:2 Trading Score:8	Just randomly sharing: I initially got a samsung ssd from Best Buy. Installed it in my PS5 and was expecting the format message when I booted backup. No message, so thought that was odd. When I looked on the drive, there were like 20 games installed from someone else on this sealed, brand new ssd. Funny thing...I called Best Buy and the rep said "sometimes they come preinstalled with games." Which I chuckled about and said, no, they don't, these are someone's else's games that I don't have access to because I didn't buy them. Returned the drive and eventually snagged a western digital which is working great. I'm sure the samsung would have worked fine and I could just reformat it, I just didn't like the idea of a sealed product having someone else's stuff on it and found it a bit funny.

01-19-2023, 08:39 PM	#19
cricepng Blu-ray Samurai Top contributor Member since:Jan 2013 Location:alternates between Papua New Guinea and Pennsylvania Home Theater Gallery:14 4K collection:438 Blu-ray collection:1611 DVD collection:311 Digital collection:658 Blu-ray reviews: 4 Trading Score:12	Just picked up a 1TB Corsair for my son for $80. Spent another $9 on basic heatsink. It won't arrive for another week and a half. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B098WL46RS/

03-12-2023, 11:42 PM	#20
NARMAK Blu-ray Prince Member since:Feb 2007 Location:United Kingdom Blu-ray collection:141 Trading Score:18	The prices on the NVMe drives are coming down nicely and i've got to be honest, i'm super tempted to try and grab a 2TB sometime soon, even though i got quite a bit of space left on the 1TB i upgraded to a while back. I think it's interesting that the speeds are slowly shifting up again in the PC space to 7000Mb/s plus, so i am curious what speed the next gen consoles after PS5 would end up with considering there's reports this gen is going to be as long as PS4 was. I know there's more than 2TB available but the fact you can pick up a solid 2TB drive for around £150 or less on offer now, it's getting pretty good value equivalent to what NVMe drives did cost, but still a little bit off what mechanical HDD drives cost.

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