Best Buy and Amazon this week is offering the Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB External Hard drive for just $80; a savings of over $50.
Sony unlocked the extra M.2 SSD slot inside the PlayStation 5 and we've tested the top drives.
Good article but if you’re planning on buying one do your work and search for them yourself in the article there’s a SSD they said the 2TB cost more than the PS5 and when I checked it was 51% off at $269 making it a better option than the 1TB at $155🤷🏿
Yeah, I got my 2tb Cuda for $259 and that was a steal imo. Great SSD and future-proof.
Yeah WD850 with heatsink 2TB I got was £255 amazon had it for a similar price but wanted £499 RRP 😑🤣
I was on a budget and bought an
ADATA XPG GAMMIX S70 BLADE 1TB PCIe Gen4.
Works flawlessly speeds are good and comes with its own heat sink.
And for £115 UK pounds delivered from amazon it's a steal.
My PS5 says it's 6300 read, so we'll above requirements and have had no issues
Exactly the one I have. Well the 2Tb version. Was £204 back in the Black Friday sales, works great
I bought the 2TB and had to return it. It seemed like a great value but I read that a lot of people were having issues with it. It was like a lottery on whether you'd get a good one or not. It installed, PS5 recognized it and the speeds were above recommended. The drive would constantly crash the ps5 especially when coming out of rest mode. This worried me because it had to repair itself over and over again. I put it in my PC and the firmware was at the latest version. I ran some read/write tests on it and found that some sectors or addresses were not readable. I tried to image one of my other drives into it and it wouldn't succeed. I just gave up and returned it. Then I bought WD850 black and it works like a champ. Maybe this is an issue with the s70 Blade 2TB version.
Adata actually tested better than many of the premium drives. I went with the 2 tb with sabrent heat cover
I got extremely lucky about a month ago and got a PNY XLR8 CS3140 2TB for like $180. For some reason a ton of SSDs were like 75% off on amazon, got a $11 heat sink and slapped it on there, works like a charm 👌
I got the GIGABYTE AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD 2TB ages ago and it was a good price then, even better now.
i will have to get a 2 TB one in the next 2-3 months, im alredy down to 70gbs, and my PS5 has been in my house for only 1 week (not getting more games for a while, but at the same time, when PSN extra gets here dunno what im going to do). I really regreat getting 2 games (GT7 and Ratchet & Clank) on BR, since i have to fully install the game on the PS5, and i have to switch BD's to play them. I miss the PS3 days when having it on BR was a way to save space on your HDD.
I use the Samsung 980 pro 1tb and I like it the price has gone down since I bought it off Amazon. I was going to go with the WD SN850 but the one I got from Amazon was dead out of the box also bought the heat sync off Amazon. I like my 980 pro the 2 tb version is like $490 Canadian.
I got the Samsung 980 Pro 1TB. Super easy install and worked fabulously. Lots of great options out there, just wait for a sale and jump.
Releasing in the Summer of 2021, Seagate have announced the FireCuda 530 M.2 SSD at SG21.
Maybe this will be first on Sony’s approved list! I’ve rented some games and could do with being able to install them all without juggling space.
I'm just really shocked it's coming up on a year and still no storage solution... Personally I expected 3 months maybe. I'm sure once they figure it out it'll sell like crazy and be hard to find just to make life harder for us.
And that's why we'll should be grateful for the consoles being at 500dlls... those ssd aren't cheap...
Its amazing what Sony was able to put on the PS5. Something that you can get for 399! Just crazy.
Yes, and that's just the SSD, if you count the whole pack, it's one expensive console to manufacture. (The same applies with xbox series x)
waverider
That's what so many gamers don't understand the kind of specs that both Microsoft and Sony used for these next in consoles, there's no way literally possible to have those specs on a PC for $499
The faster SSD's that match ps5 can cost almost half the price of ps5 itself. Yes PC gamers can have huge advantages like modding but to build a decent PC that can do at minimum 1440p with 60FPS you are looking a t spending atleast $1000 if not more
You are correct I spent around that much for my pc and all the extras I bought put it at even more. However I find it worth every penny
phoenixwing
Definitely I think if you can afford to build a great PC and buy a ps5 you can get best of both platforms. Pc in itself is a great open platform. I just like consoles simply because it's easy to hook up and play and they are noob friendly for gamers like me
Average users isn't also funding the development and building of the hardware as well as buying these parts in massive bulk.
Yes you can't build something anywhere close for $499 you also didn't pay to have millions of these built at the same time.
I just bought a $1100 PC that has a 5700G + RTX 3060. I started up Battlefield 4 (a 7 year old game) thinking I could totally max it out at 1440p but nope, seem to run pretty choppy at ultra high 1440p (ultrawide) settings. I was thoroughly disappointed.
Still not too mad though cause I get to play old school gems like Castlevania Lords of Shadow at max settings when PS3/360 version was barely playable.
@barom:
Hey dude. Something's wrong. Your RTX 3060 should be maxing out BF4 at 1440p with above 120fps pretty much consistently. My 2080 Super has absolutely no issues whatsoever. Maybe reinstall you NVidia drivers. Is it a laptop?
You are probably running battlefield 4 with your 5600G iGPU instead of RTX3060. Why did you buy 5700G instead of a normal CPU?
If it’s a laptop, I get it.
I’ll give it a shot again. Also the 5700g came with the computer. I bought the HP Pavilion Gaming Desktop TG01-2176. I thought of selling the 5700g and buy something better since the 5700g goes on eBay for the price of a 5900x.
Anyway, I’ll give it a try again, maybe there’s something I missed. Haven’t had a lot of time to play with it yet.
Do you really need anything faster than what’s in the ps5 at this point… games are loading in a couple seconds… if you want it faster than that you are just impatient 😂
It’s not loading times that made Sony spend the extra $ on a fast SSD. It’s asset streaming. R&C is a good early example.
That is because your comparing it to the 4tb drive. The 1tb drive which is the one you should compare it to is less than half of a PS5.
And so it begins.
Other manufacturer's will follow and try tom compete by undercutting prices, and in the end, we consumers win.
Which i why it's a big deal to me personally that PS5 allows standard off the shelf drives. Just wish they would open that up and release the requirements so i can start scouting.
Exactly there are faster SSD's than ps5 at this point on PC. However Ps5 will be able push data faster combo'd with it's custom io up to 17 -22 gb/s when compressed.
ROFL, where did you hear that garbage from? There has never been any official statements or spec sheets that support those numbers.
The PS5 caps out at 9GB/s compressed. With Directstorage on PC, current 7GB/s raw drives like the Samsung 980 Pro will reach 14GB/s.
At kados
Mark Cerny said that with good compression the ps5 has a max up to 22 gb/s and with Oodle kraken and textures they have close to that with 17 gb/s or higher at times
Kados you seem to not understand the advantages of being able to make custom hardware. Sony has made it where essentially you can get almost 4 times the speeds through compression as they have a dedicated chip to work on compression meaning unlike a PC where you don't have dedicated compression it will be an advantage for ps5 which isn't on the SSD but the PC vs ps5 build setup
@Teflon02: Having custom hardware does not mean you can toss around random numbers without providing official data to support it. Calling someone out for doing so, does not mean i do not understand the benefits of custom hardware. Using damage control accusatory logic like that just further hurts the argument.
"The PS5 actually has 500TF of graphical power"
"No it doesn't"
"You seem to not understand the advantages of being able to make custom hardware"
See the issue? Sources matter. Fanboy logic gets you nowhere.
@akaFullMetal:
Thanks for providing links.
Pulling numbers from your rear. 9GB is the theoretical max for PS5 and it certainly is not getting those transfer rates constantly. DirectStorage is coming to Windows 11 this year, and essentially make PCs capable of the same IO tricks. Everybody wins because game design becomes unified and better.
Once we get DX12U games working on Win11 using DirectStorage, that’s when next gen hits PC.
I’m lucky I have 1tb nvme, RX6000-series gpu and Zen 3 on a X570 platform.
Sure but PC really needs a quick resume for multiple titles. That really saves the load times.
Shiore2u. That eats too much resources depending on the game. I think they mean like a save stat type feature. Not come out the game and go back when ready. I've tried launching multiple games and while I could get Overwatch and Genshin running at the same time and alt tab. They eat at each other's performance. PC does need a fix for sleeping and games more than a quick resume as PS5 doesn't have and doesn't need. Though it loads games like FFVII in legit like 6or so seconds from the system UI if you use activity cards so it's easy to ignore. But alot of games performance tank after a PC is in sleep mode. There does need to be a universal fix if possible as I know you could just say it's on the devs to make sure it runs right. But something in the windows system should be able to fix it if modified
@Shiore2u lol alt-tab is not even close to the same thing you can shut the power off completely from your xbox and its suspended for multiple games.
@gamer7804 Sleep on PC and Rest mode on Ps4/PS5 is exactly the same. Both use little power when idle don't let console fanboy blind you.
@reddevils I’m talking about quick resume on Xbox totally different than rest mode on ps4 and ps5
Can you share a link? Always trying to find one close too or better than the PS5 at a good price but never can.
There are RAID configs that can clock in at higher transfer speeds, but there haven't been single commercial SSDs that can transfer at a rate to compensate for the speed + throughput.
Theoretically faster but in practice they fall short. It's not just about raw peak throughput. PS5 SSD has a 12 channel controller to consistently handle the speed most of these SSDs have a 6-8 channel controller.
Already have a 960GB 905p optane drive which has insane 4k (small file) IOPS for loading games etc
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