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Western Digital shows their first PS5 compatible SSD on their press material (update: Nov 5th, Sony confirmed these won’t work at launch)
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Unless its controller somehow interferes with the PS5's IO controller (or the 980's controller can't be disabled).
I would imagine so. Writing is the more bandwidth intensive task.
I wonder if there's anyway to benchmark read speeds given the whole "can't be used on anything other than the Xbox" thing.
It's a good price for that speed for now. These are new, they will only get faster. Also it can be used in way more than PS5, the utility (PS5 not the main customer for this, they just mention it fits). It has it's own memory controller on it already.
Devs would know. Whether they are allowed to say or not,...???
Generally, the heatsinks are either not pre-installed anyway or easy to remove, so I doubt they'll sell a different version without the heatsink.
I don't see people pulling and unplugging their machines, opening up their expansion bays removing their cards and reattaching everything every time they want to use thier cards in this scenario, there's no comparison to ease and effort of plug n play process.
The nand chips aren't proprietary and will benefit from scale like any, just not the plastic form factor. That's not as big a deal.
if there's more than one manufacturer pitted against each other, it could play out as little to no proprietary tax, but we'll see. i assume microsoft will slap a tax fee on there too, hopefully a smaller one.
Their web site lists the prices with and without heatsinks. The heatsink is a $20 addon.
It's $20 extra for the heatsink on the WD Drive.
WD_BLACK™ SN850 NVMe™ SSD PCIe® Gen4 for PC or Laptop | Western Digital | 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.
The nand chips aren't the issue--making them interface with the S/X is, and that's the proprietary aspect of this.
In the realm of possibilities, sure--competition will help. However, I don't think there's anyway there will ever be "no" tax--you're paying for a product to use on a given system and for only that system. There's always a tax related to that. Always.
Because folks are interested in expanding storage such that they can play games from that storage?
When you go to the WD site they have two different skus with different prices for each size, one with the heat sink, one without.
edit: beaten repeatedly
We know nothing other than the PS5 has an expandable M.2 port for a PCIe 4 drive.
Yup and its 195 for 1 TB with the discount. I might bite Once its clear its good to go.
That's a great price, on par with Samsung. I'll probably go for a 1 TB next year when they go down in price a bit.
Look closer at the image.
Look closer at the image.
Ah, didn't realize this one actually sold the heatsink separately separately. That's actually the better way to do it since nowadays, in the PC market, many higher end motherboards actually come with NVME SSD heatsinks anyway.
The prices are really good. I bought an Aorus 1TB PCIe 4.0 drive for my new build at just at $200 (maybe a bit more) and it's still only advertised at 5GB/s.
The prices are really good. I bought an Aorus 1TB PCIe 4.0 drive for my new build at just at $200 (maybe a bit more) and it's still only advertised at 5GB/s.
WD UK store
shop.westerndigital.com
Hit refresh if the prices dont appear, i went for the 1TB for now. I dont think other sellers like Amazon or Scan etc will have it for less, but well see.
WD_BLACK™ SN850 NVMe™ SSD PCIe® Gen4 for PC or Laptop | Western Digital | Western Digital Store
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.
Hit refresh if the prices dont appear, i went for the 1TB for now. I dont think other sellers like Amazon or Scan etc will have it for less, but well see.
I was referring to the 2 TB one. Would be pretty pointless to upgrade to 1 TB imo
Why not? The plates are designed to be easy to remove. You also don't need to remove both. Is not a hard task for the minority who will actually do this.
Why would it be pointless to upgrade to 1 TB? That would be close to 1.5 TB of storage--that's more than plenty in my experience.
Er? This is a Western Digital NVMe SSD that will work on the PS5's expandable storage slot. I don't understand your question.
you're not upgrading to 1TB. these expand the internal storage, they don't replace it. a 1TB drive for PS5 gives you 1.825 TB
They do, although there's (allegedly) more manufacturers coming. Seagate is the only S/X drive available at launch.
Didn't even catch the distinction in my response. Good point.
It's not an upgrade, ie a replacement. It's in addition to. You would get about 1.5 TB of usable way storage after this. I would prefer a 2 TB addition as well, but I wouldn't say adding 1 TB is pointless. Going from 664 GB (or whatever the rumor is) to 1.5-1.6 TB is pretty decent.
That's like saying wire are not proprietary so the lightning cable will benefit from scale like any. The form factor is not really the reason for the price, exclusive branding and licensing carries with it a certain "certified" tax. If you look at an Xbox Official WD SSD 1TB it is $185 but a Samsung 1TB SSD which is twice the speed is $150.
this was my understanding too. its expanded storage. the price for the 2TB is plain stupid right now.
This replaces the drive that's in it right? So 1TB is useless since that's basically what's there, need the 2TB to actually get more storage.
Edit: Seems it is additive! That's good.
Edit: Seems it is additive! That's good.
Shit @ those prices. Personally 2TB seems like the absolutely minimum sensible option to get, I put 2TB drive in my PS4 and I'm out of space even without next gens even bigger game sizes. That internal ~600GB on PS5 will fill up super fast and that will most certainly have a negative effect on my purchase habits/impulse buying stuff on the PS Store.
Hopefully the prices halve very fast as competition heats up or Sony has some other solution to the storage problem, as ain't no hell I'm paying these prices for measly drives.
Hopefully the prices halve very fast as competition heats up or Sony has some other solution to the storage problem, as ain't no hell I'm paying these prices for measly drives.
No, the SSD is on the motherboard. This is for the expansion slot. It's added storage.
