I finally bought my first PS5. It doesn’t have a lot of memory on it, so I’m trying to find a m.2 ssd that will work in a PS5 and doesn’t cost $400. Does anyone have a good suggestion, like a good brand or place to get one? Please treat me like I’m five and have no idea what I’m talking about here, because I really don’t. I’m just hoping some nice folks on Lemmy will take pity and point me in the right direction.
Samsung and Crucial.com are the two brands I trust, fwiw. Can’t speak to price, but I trust quality over price any day. I can’t tell you how many computers I saw that had defective RAM from Patriot RAM and the like. SSDs and RAM have similarities is why I included that anecdote. I have owned many of each brand and no device has failed (but all will given enough time).
As an aside, I find it amusing that the Patriot brand was trash sold to rubes.
Good luck!
Thank you!!
Samsung SSDs are quite competitive on pricing these days. I saw some on Newegg.ca for under CAD$250 for 2TB which is pretty good.
When you’re looking, just keep in mind the requirements from Sony, mainly sizing because it would suck to buy something that doesn’t fit. Pay special attention to dimensions if you decide to go with a heatsinked stick.
https://www.playstation.com/en-ca/support/hardware/ps5-install-m2-ssd/#min
Thank you! I didn’t even think about the heatsink changing the size.
The other options are great, but i recommend Sabrent just because it’s what I purchased and was slightly less money than WD at the time. It came with the heatsink as well, which replaces the cover and is really nice. Since then, I also built a new PC 2 years ago and liked it so much I decided to buy 2 higher end ones for my gaming pc, and they also have been just fine so far. I just got them off either Amazon or newegg at the time.
Just remember to buy the one specifically for ps5 since the read/write needs to be as higher or higher than the ps5 one. I think it has to be 6k or higher for it to work fine with ps5 games for loading purposes. Obviously, there are cheap ones, but it’s most likely due to older hardware and slower speeds. Just keep an eye out, and you will be fine.
That’s great advice, thank you!
Thank you, I’ll check them out!
Seconding crucial and Samsung. I currently have two, decades plus year old midrange SSDs from each of those brands that are still running perfectly far beyond their expected end of life.
