I do have a PC with a PCIe 4 slot. Hmmmm.Welp...
I also got an NVMe with an enclosure, but its PCIe 3. For external use.
I'm about to be broke before Christmas ....😩
Look, somebody has to get the list started!!! Might as well be the customers. lol.
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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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I also got an NVMe with an enclosure, but its PCIe 3. For external use.
I'm about to be broke before Christmas ....😩
Look, somebody has to get the list started!!! Might as well be the customers. lol.
At the moment It's probably these or the Sabrent Rocket Plus.
That was too fancy for my taste, I wanted to wait til prices drop.
It will be a lot more fantastic once the price is lower than the proprietary option. Until then most consumers just see the price difference.
Well you can resell, and reuse in more than a console, that's worth it. Also since the market for these are going to be a lot larger, the price will surely get lower new or used, especially based on the brand and type of NAND cell, QLC being the cheapest.
Agreed, but again right now most people just care about the price and availability.
Yeah the internal Nvme on the PS5 just won't be enough. I will expand the storage whenever I get a PS5.
For people that want a good price, I hope they wait, or shop around for the best deals, there are some good prices out there. Also for good PC parts deals pcpartpicker.com console people. It's amazing, get alerts setup for the NVMe drive you have your eye on, or the NVMe drive size, it doesn't have to be a specific one.
Also check out the reddit site:
Reddit - Dive into anything
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No, US. I ordered it directly from WD's store back when they announced it last month.
Wanna buy a WD one but concerned it won't end up working. SUPER annoying that there's not even a small list from Sony of drives that work.
will the WD heat sink one fit in the PS5?
will the WD heat sink one fit in the PS5?
If it helps Best Buy has these up for preorder, if you have a Best Buy store nearby they should be easy to return if it turns out these are not PS5 compatible.
So, what is the current understanding as of today?
- We know these will work in the PS5 expansion slot simply on spec
- We believe they are fast enough due to Cerny's GDC presentation
- Sony has not given a list of acceptable products yet
- We don't know if they will fit due to the heatsink???
- We don't know how hot they will get because nobody (other than embargoed people) have access to retail units???
Oh amazing! Just put in my order, will Best Buy accept in store returns for items that are shipped? They wouldn't let me pick up
yeah you can return online orders to them. you may need to provide some information like order number and id and such
Ok cool, my uk order from wd store is coming tom. Good to see they not far behind the US
Sweet! Moving from a 2TB PS4 to a 700GB PS5 was a little concerning so hopefully I'm all set!
Yeah I'd love to buy now just to have it but I'm gonna wait for an official list or DF I guess (or users to post here next week)
My hot take is that WD is being irresponsible. It looks like a calculated risk to get the sales while their competitors are waiting for the official testing results before making claims of compatibility. It's "probably" compatible until they tested it completely.
Cerny said it needs to be a bit faster than 5.5GB to compensate for the additional priority queues, and the speed specs here looks sufficient, but he ALSO said the architecture must not be too different so it can be handled by the I/O controller. And he also said the heatsink must physically fit, and be of sufficient performance.
We have 1 out of 3 factors here, the raw speed.
So Cerny then strongly advised everyone to WAIT before buying an SSD. Wait for the list of fully tested devices.
Maybe buying it now is not really a big risk, but it's still a risk. Knowing that it works with the two launch games someone bought is no guarantee it will work with games that start really taking advantage of it with a lot of streaming. That's why the full testing by Sony is important.
Yep. Honestly, I'm happy that others are cool to take the plunge and report back!
I'll be waiting until I hear from Sony, even though it's frustrating. I take solace knowing I won't be eating up the full built-in SSD day 1 anyway.
I wouldn't have bought the drive until Sony confirmed compatibility. Hopefully you don't hear from influencers that certain internal expansion drives don't work.Welp...
I've got a PC with an empty PCIE 4 slot. I should be ok. :)
Exact reason why I went ahead and ordered one without confirmation.
Sorry not up to date with pc stuff, but how do you put nvme cards on pci slots? Is there an adaptor you can buy? Nvme generally go to the motherboard right? Just trying to learn a bit more about gaming pc, so don't mind if my question is stupid lol
Yeah you slot it into the motherboard via a m.2 slot. (this picture is before it's screwed down, the below show you how they screw down, the little notch at the back is where you screw into the board, and it's held flat)
There is also a card that can use multiple M.2 SSD's in a raid0 (increasing the speed and size of a single normal PCIe slot.
Eh. It doesn't have an infinite SLC cache. The Xbox Seagate drive will drop in performance just like a PC one would.
Tnx... Now that card looks like an overkill ;)Yeah you slot it into the motherboard via a m.2 slot. (this picture is before it's screwed down, the below show you how they screw down, the little notch at the back is where you screw into the board, and it's held flat)
There is also a card that can use multiple M.2 SSD's in a raid0 (increasing the speed and size of a single normal PCIe slot.
Right now there is the WD SN850 & Samsung 980 Pro PCIE 4.0 drives with fast enough read speeds to be satisfactory for the PS5. Im pretty sure those will make the compatability list by Sony who seem to be waiting for a full moon or something before they share the list. The read speeds are the key factor here I believe. I would not trust using another brand tbh in my PS5. So unless you are waiting to see what new products are released I think its a good bet with the aforementioned models.
It is, it's not for gaming but other things like video editing, or science. Games wouldn't get much use out of it, especially current PC and current games. Current games don't even get much use out of a NVMe drive vs a standard slow SATA SSD. The load time differences are within single digits. I can't wait until that change, and these drives actually get to flex on PC.
Yup, your in luck with your PC needing it.
Feel bad for other people here who bought it thinking it would work though.
Well we don't if it will work or not yet. Sony hasn't said otherwise. For all we know, everyone who bought one already might have made a Galaxy Brain level play.
Buy an USB M.2 enclosure and it can double as a fast external drive.
I don't get it either.. This is Sony, if the SSD is as fast as the WD or the new Samsung drives chances are it will work.
I think compatibility for the internal drive will be wide if the drive meets the speed requirements.
Definitely not a mistake. In my case, since the option to add additional internal storage is disabled at launch, no point me in my buying and just having it sit in the box until some undetermined future time when the firmware enables it.