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hinch on 29 July 2021
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Captain_Yuri said:

Sony has released their PS5 SSD requirements and DF made a list of SSDs that should work with the ps5. The interesting thing is that they seemed to have backtracked with the reads slightly by going with 5.5GB/s instead of 7GB/s. They do mention that:

" Not all games are necessarily playable with the exact same performance provided by the PS5 console’s internal Ultra-High Speed SSD, even where the M.2 SSD device’s sequential read speed is faster than 5500MB/s."

The main problem seems to be the heatsink size. While most SSDs will work, some won't due to the heatsink that they come with. It's also important to add a heatsink to your SSD if it doesn't come with one. Overall, the ones we thought were gonna work are gonna work by the looks of things. Hopefully these aren't about to have the same supply issues as everything else.

I have one very much like the Eluteng M.2 that i got from Aliexpress for about £5. Which Sony used in their reference guide for installing so that's one I'd go for if you have a fast (and hot) NVMe like a SN850 or 980Pro

Last edited by hinch - on 29 July 2021