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[kyliethicc]

Case closed. The father of the PS5 has spoken.

Knack Daddy

WD_BLACK™ SN850 NVMe™ SSD PCIe® Gen4 for PC or Laptop | Western Digital

Long load times are obsolete with next-gen PCIe® Gen4 technology. Arm your system with RGB lighting, an optional heatsink model, and up to 2TB1 capacity.

shop.westerndigital.com

Edit - Seems like he also approves of the Seagate 530.

 

[THEAP99]

Would be great if Sony themselves would have a section on the website for this to fully clear things up.

 

[kyliethicc]

Would be great if Sony themselves would have a section on the website for this to fully clear things up.

How to add an M.2 SSD to a PS5 console

Find out which M.2 SSDs can be used to expand your PlayStation®5 console storage space, and how to insert an M.2 SSD into the expansion slot.

www.playstation.com

 

[ethomaz]

Would be great if Sony themselves would have a section on the website for this to fully clear things up.

Clear exactly what? They already give all the specs needed.

 

[chinoXL]

not too bad, 250 for 1TB for this drive...if its good enough for Cerny, i'm gonna go with that one

 

[Barakov]

Case closed. The father of the PS5 has spoken.

WD_BLACK™ SN850 NVMe™ SSD PCIe® Gen4 for PC or Laptop | Western Digital

Long load times are obsolete with next-gen PCIe® Gen4 technology. Arm your system with RGB lighting, an optional heatsink model, and up to 2TB1 capacity.

shop.westerndigital.com

 

[iHaunter]

not too bad, 250 for 1TB for this drive...if its good enough for Cerny, i'm gonna go with that one

There's much cheaper. There's an ADATA one for $160. Meets full specs. 1TB.

Amazon.com: XPG GAMMIX S70 2TB M.2 2280 PCIe Gen 4.4 NVMe 1.4 7400/6400/s Internal SSD (AGAMMIXS70-2T-C): Computers & Accessories

 

[M.W.]

My PS5 SSD has like 400GB left. What the fuck are you filling your storage up with?

 

[Oddvintagechap]

I do what daddy Cerny tells me.

Ill pay that extra 50$.

 

[Fahdis]

Case closed. The father of the PS5 has spoken.

White guy Jesus Saviour to our Asian overlords? If the father of PlayStation Ken Kutagari isn't replaced within 24 hours I'm dialing ResetEra right fucking there and then.

 

[PleaseDontBanMe]

My PS5 SSD has like 400GB left. What the fuck are you filling your storage up with?

u have like 1 game installed then

 

[Hugare]

My PS5 SSD has like 400GB left. What the fuck are you filling your storage up with?

Ah, not a Warzone player, I reckon

Jokes aside, 600 gb fills up really quickly, dude. You are the exception, not the norm.

5-6 games and its full

 

[kyoji]

Would be great if Sony themselves would have a section on the website for this to fully clear things up.

I saw how u got roasted on twitter man was pretty funny, stay safe in these streets

 

[captainraincoat]

Case closed. The father of the PS5 has spoken.

WD_BLACK™ SN850 NVMe™ SSD PCIe® Gen4 for PC or Laptop | Western Digital

Long load times are obsolete with next-gen PCIe® Gen4 technology. Arm your system with RGB lighting, an optional heatsink model, and up to 2TB1 capacity.

shop.westerndigital.com

$700 aud for that one…..and without a heatsink
That’s almost the price of the console

 

[M.W.]

Ah, not a Warzone player, I reckon

Jokes aside, 600 gb fills up really quickly, dude. You are the exception, not the norm.

5-6 games and its full

I have Ratchet, Returnal, Watch Dogs Legion, Fifa, God Fall...and others, still feel like I have plenty of room. I've never cared about storage, just delete shit I'm not playing. Oh well.

 

[BaneIsPain]

Definitely will get that along the road.

 

[Oddvintagechap]

White guy Jesus Saviour to our Asian overlords? If the father of PlayStation Ken Kutagari isn't replaced within 24 hours I'm dialing ResetEra right fucking there and then.

ResetEra nada. Cerny is daddy there too.

Accept Cerny as your savior

 

[TYRiAX]

$700 aud for that one…..and without a heatsink
That’s almost the price of the console

Thats the price for 2TB no? you can get a 1TB for 290AUD... yeah still expensive!

 

[GuinGuin]

He seems like a genuinely nice guy. They should just hire him and pay him to do more interviews. Much less likely to put his foot in his mouth than Jim.

 

[bitbydeath]

Ah, not a Warzone player, I reckon

Jokes aside, 600 gb fills up really quickly, dude. You are the exception, not the norm.

5-6 games and its full

WTF are you installing?
I have 20 games on mine.

 

[Nitty_Grimes]

How does he get in the beta thats so unfair - I bet his uncle works for Sony.

 

[Little Chicken]

The 1TB with heatsink is only $100 less than the cost of a Series S here

 

[Oddvintagechap]

WTF are you installing?
I have 20 games on mine.

Once I deleted Call of Duty. I was fine. But this is a problem for people with shitty internet. I can delete games anytime I want, then quickly download them. I do move alot though. So hopefully Biden’s passes that internet bill. We should have Fiber everywhere. I feel for my 5 Mbps internet people. How pissed off I get when I cant get Fiber Internet.

 

[Hugare]

WTF are you installing?
I have 20 games on mine.

Big games, I guess

Have Returnal, Cyberpunk, FF VII, Metro Exodus, Yakuza 7, Spider-Man, Dead By Daylight, R&C e Fortnite but its almost full already

But I believe that having a 2 TB HDD on my PS4 Pro has spoiled me. I really dont need a lot of games instaled at the same time.

But sometimes I like to play some oldies

I also have an external SSD, which helps with the chunky boys: TLOU 2, Mass Effect LE, FF XV and Witcher

 

[captainraincoat]

Thats the price for 2TB no? you can get a 1TB for 290AUD... yeah still expensive!

average price is around $320 for the 1tb version....and thats without heatsink

 

[TLZ]

Ah, not a Warzone player, I reckon

Jokes aside, 600 gb fills up really quickly, dude. You are the exception, not the norm.

5-6 games and its full

Hell no. Not all of us only play COD and those types.

 

[Md Ray]

$700 aud for that one…..and without a heatsink
That’s almost the price of the console

Holy shit. Just checked SN850 1TB's price in my country's Amazon -- $239 USD (converted from INR) w/ heatsink. In comparison, Xbox Series expansion card costs around $325 USD which is ridiculous!!

 

[mansoor1980]

SWEET choice mark , just............

 

[captainraincoat]

Holy shit. Just checked its price in my country's Amazon -- $239 USD (converted from INR) w/ heatsink. In comparison, Xbox Series expansion card costs around $325 USD which is ridiculous!!

Pricing on all ssd drives is a crapshoot atm
The Xbox expansion card in aus is around $330 which would roughly translate to $180 US

m2 drives around that spec of the ps5 are in the same $300-400 for 1tb and 2tb your looking at $650+

upgrading your storage ain’t cheap

 

[noise36]

You dont need external storage when you have fast internet, just delete and re-download as required. This just seems like PR/advertising.

 

[bender]

You dont external storage when you have fast internet, just delete and re-download as required. This just seems like PR/advertising.

You forget that a lot of people have data caps.

 

[SantaC]

Samsung 980 pro is what i would get

 

[noise36]

You forget that a lot of people have data caps.

You think Mark Cerny has slow internet or a data cap? Surely all the major Playstation markets have unlimited internet plans.

 

[ReBurn]

Now this is news

 

[bender]

You think Mark Cerny has slow internet or a data cap? Surely all the major Playstation markets have unlimited internet plans.

I didn't say anything about slow internet. Tell me who Cerny's provider is and I'll tell you if he has caps. Most providers is the States impose data caps. For instance, Comcast is 1229GB per month.

 

[Md Ray]

The first Cerny approved drive and then followed by FireCuda 530. Now you know which ones to get...

 

[GuinGuin]

You dont need external storage when you have fast internet, just delete and re-download as required. This just seems like PR/advertising.

Or better yet attach a super cheap HDD and transfer your games to cold storage. So much more cost effective.

 

[FoundryMusic]

Western Digital will suddenly be brilliant now.

 

[bender]

Or better yet attach a super cheap HDD and transfer your games to cold storage. So much more cost effective.

Which begs the question if you can use the expansion bay and an external drive. PS5 doesn't allow you to connect two externals. I've got a 4TB for cold storage for PS5 games and an active 4TB drive for PS4 games.

 

[Duchess]

Honest question for those looking into expanding the storage: do you swap between games a lot? Or do you just like having there, in case you want to play them?

I'm someone who only plays one game at a time, finishes it, and plays something else. I'll delete as I go along.

 

[Orta]

Buy pc tech basically?

 

[GuinGuin]

Which begs the question if you can use the expansion bay and an external drive. PS5 doesn't allow you to connect two externals. I've got a 4TB for cold storage for PS5 games and an active 4TB drive for PS4 games.

Pretty sure you could use both I saw a diagram somewhere recently.

 

[nightmare-slain]

got a 2TB WD Black NVME in my PC. it's a solid choice.

Western Digital will suddenly be brilliant now.

lol they've been brilliant for years. of course console owners might not be too familiar with them but for PC owners they are known as a good reputable brand. most of my drives are WD. can't go wrong with them.

 

[Md Ray]

Honest question for those looking into expanding the storage: do you swap between games a lot? Or do you just like having there, in case you want to play them?

I'm someone who only plays one game at a time, finishes it, and plays something else. I'll delete as I go along.

I'm also someone who likes to play one game at a time to completion, but I also tend to swap between games every now and then. In that case, I do wish I had bigger storage.

But these days we have fast internet so it's not as painful as it was a couple years ago to delete and re-download these games (at least on PC).

Data caps still exist, but that's not an issue for me particularly as I don't run into them.

 

[GreatnessRD]

This makes sense. The SN850 is the top tier of the mainstream consumer market. I'll purchase one when Microsoft enables direct storage. That's when I think it'll be needed for my use case. Oh yeah, might get a Samsung 980 pro for when I buy the PS5 in a year or two, lmao.

 

[Md Ray]

Shu's face here always gets me.

 

[sendit]

You dont need external storage when you have fast internet, just delete and re-download as required. This just seems like PR/advertising.

This isn't external storage.

 

[Greggy]

Clear exactly what? They already give all the specs needed.

And yet they won’t take responsibility for any M2 drive that meets the specs not working as expected after installation. That’s why people have to rely on Cerny’s Twitter feed to decide which SSD to buy. It’s not just poor customer service, it may be creating unfair competition between suppliers.

As a consumer, I’m very disappointed. They botched this whole storage solution. I’d rather pay more for a plug and play stick that is guaranteed to maintain the same performance as the internal storage.

 

[Panajev2001a]

Interesting that they are running other deals on the external Xbox Series X|S expansion: Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S 1TB Solid State Drive - NVMe Expansion SSD for Xbox Series X|S(STJR1000400) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08K48F6QZ/

£179… it is a much much slower drive, but matched to what the platform needs (weird Amazon is selling it £40 cheaper than MS’s Store).

https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn850-nvme-ssd people are hitting this WD Store hard. Cannot even add things to a cart.

 

[cormack12]

Interesting that they are running other deals on the external Xbox Series X|S expansion: Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S 1TB Solid State Drive - NVMe Expansion SSD for Xbox Series X|S(STJR1000400) https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B08K48F6QZ/

£179… it is a much much slower drive, but matched to what the platform needs (weird Amazon is selling it £40 cheaper than MS’s Store).

https://shop.westerndigital.com/en-gb/products/internal-drives/wd-black-sn850-nvme-ssd people are hitting this WD Store hard. Cannot even add things to a cart.

It usually goes on offer at various places for £180, it's what I ended up getting mine for. I can see them reducing it to that permanently to be honest. A years premium at £220, then price match on the storage albeit not performance matched. I'm just wondering if an SN850 1TB is really worth the extra, 1.2TB should be enough on the PS5 I think so a 500GB model makes more sense and is just over £100 here.