I thought the ones on the far right was an internal drive *for xbox
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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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That's nice. WD is one of the most trustable company in storage, imo. Never got a single issues with their products.
The second one from the left is the one that's going to be compatible with the PS5. It's for the expansion slot, so internal storage.
Edit: just saw your edit, there's been no confirmation that the one on the right will be supported on Xbox afaik.
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Man, I don't want to call people out but i searched a few of your profiles for "seagate" and your reaction to the price of the Xbox's expansion card was quite different than the "Good price" reaction you're giving here.
once again. this is not like PS4 lol. it does not replace the drive. it can only add in addition to the system memory. so 1TB gives you an *extra* 1TB of space in addition to the 825GB you already have
This is a non-proprietary PCIe 4.0 SSD at 7GB/s speed that you can stick into any other compatible device. Of course the price is much better than a
this is a fantastic price for the speed you're getting. you realize the Xbox SSD is much slower right?
this also works in my PC and is a fair price compared to what I paid for the drive I'm using now.
Yeah they've made up a ton of ground since buying Sandisk.
It would be easy as hell to manufacture vent fins with rgbs attached to their underside.
There is a reason this SSD is way faster. it's a better price to speed.
Exact same price as the 980 Pro for the 1TB model. Same thing happened when the SN750 launched at $249 which back then was the MSRP of the 970 EVO Plus.
Not saying it should have any other price, but I think it is a way for WD to say "hey we are exactly as good as Samsung".
Not saying it should have any other price, but I think it is a way for WD to say "hey we are exactly as good as Samsung".
sure, because that's the same price for an SSD with less than a third of the performance and with a proprietary format that will prevent prices from being driven down. why would people applaud that?
just a correction, I believe the Xbox Series expansion is still PCIe 4.0, it just uses two lanes, so runs at approximately 3.0 speeds.
Part of the reason it's still a little pricier (besides the proprietary price gouging of course).
No need to try and start console warring.
Here you go:
Yeah I think all initial prices will be the same and higher speeds would be a bit more.
I'm stunned these aren't more expensive. It's easy money. I mean you wanna expand storage you've got no choice.
Yeah, that certainly helps but still I feel like going anything under 2TB for extra storage will likely not be enough if I'm trying to avoid having to constantly delete/redownload stuff.. but I realize it's a new technology and the prices of storage will come down, just hoping it won't take too long:)
So I'm guessing we'll have a good list of compatible drives by the end of the month once all the tech companies have announced their new products, which usually done in October, right?
Could someone post that SeriesX chart showing that you can install new games directly to the expansion ? My friend is saying it acts just like an external. And I'm sure that's wrong.
I have no idea what's even being argued, or why its a debate, lol.
Also...TIL proprietary had different meanings.
I thought when someone tried to argue weeks ago the speed that Sony want the drive to be as proprietary....I thought that couldn't be topped. We getting close....lol.
500 GB (marketed size) = ~465 GiB
Then take away some more for the file system and possibly over provisioning done by the system....you'd probably end up with ~430 GB usable (just a guess on my part).
Let it go, it is literally what you think it is. Opinion bias always moves the goalposts if there is there is even slightest bit of information to lean on. All camps do it, especially in a forum like this.
To be fair, this is a website that commonly misunderstands all sorts of terms. No one should have expected otherwise with 'proprietary' imo.
I think all those other gen 4 drives using the Phison controller that came out last year took the wind from under Samsung's and WD wings. Had they been the first ones to launch NVMe gen 4, rather than being a year late, I'm sure they would been quite more expensive.
That proprietary stuff Microsoft went with is trash. Sony made the right decision in the long run.
Yeah, I get that but I buy a lot of games so will still likely run out of space sooner rather than later..
Has Sony said anything about using external drives for PS5 backup purposes (not booting games, just storage) , or is that option for PS4 only?
Maybe....compare the specs of the drives....?
Series X card - 2.5GB/s
This card and the EVO 980 Pro - 7GB/S
$220, $230..
it's not too hard to figure out why the different reactions.
Many assumed 7GB/s was gonna be $300, 350....at a minimum...
I thought that was a thing as well but learned yesterday it hadn't actually been confirmed by Sony. So, right now we just know that an external drive can be used for PS4 games. It would be odd given the capacity of the internal drive that they didn't allow for cold storage of PS5 games on an external drive....but who knows until they tell us directly?
Im going to try to last as long as I can this gen with the default storage until I can't take it anymore.
The pricing on these drives should drop faster than the proprietary drives that MS is going with for Series S/X just due to the fact that they can be used for PC as well.
Ah, that certainly helps circumventing the problem, at least partly. Thanks!
what happens when you have multiple competing products at the same price?
edit: SN750 is $135 on Amazon right now
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.
Will this be available at launch? Wondering if there will be any 2TB drives available on November 12th
SSD's can get up to upwards of 70c under load, usual operating temps are 50-60c. Most high performance ones will come with a heat sink of some sort. They're usually one of the hottest running components in a machine.