Hiku said:
NVMe SSD's look like this.
There's probably no easy and safe way to connect it to your console unless it's a proprietary version, which will cost extra. |
This, because you also shouldn't have to spend more for proprietary tech.
SNY could have made it so customers didn't have to slide off the top white outer case plate, along with removing one more screw and a grey metal plate, to get to the M.2 NVMe slot.
They could have made a caddy pop out of the bottom/side, more like the PS3 kind of, but they would have required an M.2 connector to some other connector, likely proprietary, to connect the M.2 NVMe SSD caddy to the motherboard.
You would still have to insert the stick, push down, and screw it in regardless. Then you would have pushed the caddy it was in, back in the slot you took it out of. The difference between that, and sliding off the top cover, is negligible, so that's probably why they decided to go the route they did. It also kills two birds with one stone, because they clearly want to allow easy access to the internals from both sides, for things like dust removal, and likely selling different outer case plate designs and colors.
It would look something kinda like this, that would slide out of and back into the console so it wouldn't stick out like XBSX does.
