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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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Felt like that comment only existed to start shit. Why go rummaging through people's post histories for BS gotchas otherwise
Why would you go all the trouble of reading history posts instead of understanding that this is 3 times faster at almost the same price lol.
It could mean "We all use roughly the same components and got the controller from the same manufacturer". Which is kind of how the first NVMe 4.0 drives launched last year.
Here WD's SN850 is matching the 980 PRO to the decimal point. It may be all in my head, but I really think they don't want to give the idea that theirs is the "cheaper" option. The SN750 was not as good as the 970 EVO Plus, and has gone down in price further. However I'm not that impressed with the 980 Pro even though it is clearly the current best m.2 nvme in the market, the differences may be non-existent, or the WD may be the better drive this time.
Yeah, but if the Xbox drive is getting crazy hot in it's larger form factor, do you expect an even faster SSD to maintain those speeds at those temps in such a small enclosure? I'm not sure... Heat increases resistance and slows electrons.
There's a proper air flow going through there to cool it down. They spent a lot on the cooling solution, I'd trust the engineers on that. And I thought the Xbox heating up was a fake rumour?
Was it fake? I thought it came from a reputable source. (The SSD heating up, not overall system heat)
Thanks! Think I'll stick with my external HDD for a while TBH.
Was that the one where a journalist got his hands burned or something? I have to admit haven't followed the story very closely so you may be right.
It's probably just a standard 2230/40 size in a custom enclosure. Those are generally more expensive regardless of the custom enclosure anyway, but hopefully once the exclusivity period goes away for Seagate, prices drop.
The XSX probably does get warm/hot. But given what's packed inside of it, that's understandable. Whether it gets so hot that it would cause any sort of issue with the device is unlikely. The thing looks like a chimney and has a fairly large fan pushing air out of the top of it. I don't think you could get a much better design for it....just look around at all of the chimneys used to vent houses/buildings.
No he didnt get his hands burned. He touched the metal part of the adapter after pulling it out of the console and said it was hot - which is normal. People were being overdramatic saying he burned himself.
SSDs run hot. USB drives run hot. It's normal.
229 doesn't sound too bad. I still remember when I paid 170 euro for 512gb Samsung Evo Sata SSD in 2015!
Now I can get >10x that speed. Hopefully, over 2 years these prices will drop even further and that's when I'll strike :D.
Now I can get >10x that speed. Hopefully, over 2 years these prices will drop even further and that's when I'll strike :D.
Oh yeah lmao. That makes sense. So it was just overblown as everything is nowadays.
yup prices will come down with time and we'll see larger storage options at this pricepoint. PCIE gen3 nvme drives have dropped significantly in price over the past few years. Expect the same as time goes on.
Yep lol there were some saying people would sue MS cuz they got burned lol
The expansion SSDs for both will run fine, both consoles look like their cooling systems were designed to take them into account
That's not bad at all. Prices will surely drop moving forward and I like how these are an addition to the existing storage. It's not like the PS3 and PS4 where you're replacing your storage.
Why would they even do that though? Assuming Microsoft gets a cut if third party peripheral sales, it seems greedy. Damn near vita memory card status. We are getting storage that's way better than the XB solution on PC and PS5 for around the same price. Even when competition kicks in, non standard formats always have some dumb markup.
Are those with heat sinks compatible with PS5 or they aren't mountable inside the PS5 due to added space?
I don't get why people are so fessed up about RGB, modern RGB is incredibly customisable in terms of intensity, colouring etc. Glass panel cases are in these days so RGB is pretty cool for it.
And even if it's not your thing, guess what? It can be turned off. Everyone can be happy.
And even if it's not your thing, guess what? It can be turned off. Everyone can be happy.
I applaud Sony for going with the standardized NVMe it should help with prices in a couple of years. For those bashing Xbox, Microsoft went with CFExpress (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CFexpress) which doesn't support PCIe 4.0 yet, but will eventually. I'm sure if it was available MS would have supported PCIe 4.0 with their SSD cards. I'm assuming MS didn't want to compromise their motherboard design and figured the SSD cards would be an easy and elegant solution to having users opening the case and screwing on a new chip or having space on the split motherboard to mount the SSD.
yeah I like the portable solution as well. This gen seems to be more interesting because of how they both approach things differently.
Sony usually makes changing the drive very easy. In this case it's even easier because you're not actually replacing your main drive so it should be as simple as putting it in an The system doing the rest.
These are much better drives than the Seagate one for XBOX, for one. Also, the fact that these are coming out at the same price point is exciting, because prices for these will come down much faster than the proprietary one. Also, you can actually do something with these after you take them out of the PS5.
Complete speculation, but their surface devices use similar sizes so they may have made some deal with manufacturers that benefit their pricing there. Doesn't help consumers, but it may provide some insight into why they did what they did.
But yeah, SSDs are hot An NVME drive will be 60-80 degrees centigrade if you measure them. It's why so many of them have a heat sink as an option and you can even get coolers for them
Point stands, though. Higher performance SSDs will produce even more heat.
Do you think Microsoft and Sony don't know that? I don't understand the point tbh.
The point where you just said got his hand burned?
He said he didn't, but the point still stands?
The point is that theoretical max speeds don't equate to real world speeds of hot NAND modules.
Which you can also use on your PC, if you eventually get another or just need one for whatever reason.
My question stands: do you think they don't know or otherwise didn't account for this? I don't get the concern.
It looked like you could maybe fit one in without the metal shroud on top. I wonder if a heat sink or that metal thing functions better under the plate for moving around the heat ?
I'm not concerned, just trying to have a discussion about it but have been responding to knee-jerk responses from people concerned that anything other than blind approval is somehow bad... Both companies obviously chose to go different directions, but that doesn't mean that discussing it and looking at the good and bads of those decisions is in any way a bad thing.
PS5 was designed to deal with that though and the fact that you're trying to Sony Too the heat situation the Series X expansion cards has is disingenuous at best.
it's disingenuous to understand that ultra fast NAND modules produce a lot of heat?
PS5 users wont be touching hot expansion cards or SSD's was my point. Thus there is no comparisons to be made really.
