Captain_Yuri said:
Sony Group (Nextorage) to release M.2 SSD at 7GB/s, PCIE 4.0 (1TB~£165 // 2TB~£320)
https://www.neogaf.com/threads/sony-group-nextorage-to-release-m-2-ssd-at-7gb-s-pcie-4-0-1tb-%C2%A3165-2tb-%C2%A3320.1612625/
" Nextorage Co., Ltd.  , a memory / storage business under the Sony Group , will release the NVMe M.2 SSD "NEM-H" series with PCI Express 4.0 x4 connection on Amazon on the 21st. The price is an open price, and the estimated retail price is 25,190 yen for the 1TB model and 48,560 yen for the 2TB model."
This has to be for the PS5 as well as PC is what I am thinking. Maybe they will finally update the ps5 to enable that secondary ssd slot at the same time this releases. £320 for 2TB Gen 4 is actually quite good pricing as it's slightly cheaper than a 980 Pro.
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I've personally believed this was going to happen as soon as I saw what MS was offering for extra storage vs PS. Why wait so long to approve drives that look to be capable of working in a PS5?
Maybe I'm way off base, but if I were SNY, as soon as I knew about the XB expansion drive, I would've started work on our own NVME SSD. Why let all the third parties gobble up the profits since many will want a storage upgrade? (though many won't want to pay the high price even for instant loading early on)
As long as the drive was performance worthy, and fell in line with the rest of the Gen 4 NVME drive costs, as well as the XB SSD drive cost, SNY would be able to sell a lot of these over the span of the generation.
SNY could have PS branded 1TB and 2TB PS5 Nextorage editions in a highly recommended section above the rest of the third party options listed as well, but then people in the know will automatically assume SNY has been holding out this entire time for this very reason, and may stir up some controversy.
If I had to guess, SNY will just put the Nextorage drive at the top of the list of third party drives that are accepted by PS. Being the #1 recommended drive would be more than enough to make themselves the main drive sales, if the price is right, while being able to pretend like they didn't wait this whole time to cash in like XB is.
The product pics show it in an AMD APU or CPU coincidentally. One of the pics has a card in the lower GPU slot though it's hard to tell if it's a GPU or not. The fact that the AMD APU/CPU is clearly evident might be a hint to the tie to PS5 perhaps.
I'll also mention, there's talk elsewhere that some think the Nextorage drive is using an existing high end Phison controller, and the part/model number coincidentally starts with PS5***** etc. This was actually brought up by somebody on VGC quite a while ago in another thread as a joke. If it's true it'll be hilarious.


Last edited by EricHiggin - on 10 July 2021
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