Report: PS5 Storage May Support Four Different NVMe SSDs Sizes Based on Hardware Breakdown

Options for expanding your PS5 storage could be getting a whole lot bigger, as markings on the SSD slot feature different numbers.

[ziggurcat]

Right now, I'll be using my 8TB external to store my games, and transfer over when I need, but if the price drops down to a reasonable amount, I'll likely add another internal SSD.

[gamesftw250]

SSD prices are still going to continue to fall thankfully. Hoping to pick up at least a 2TB soon.

[indysurfn]

Continue to fall, you mean in general, right? I thought Sony had a new proprietary drive, faster than Microsof'ts. . And it is not out yet but will be 1TB and $20 less than Microsoft's $220 1TB drive? I have not heard of a 2TB drive that WOULD be sweet if they started off with it right off the bat.

[Teflon02]

Indy
Sony has a custom PCIe 4 NVMe built into the Mobo but you can use third party cards. This was explained from the start. MS is the only one doing that where you're forced to use custom ones

[Ju]

12 lane internal on board drive. To compensate with (what 4) for gen 4 drives, it is recommended to have at least a raw bandwidth of 7000MB/s to compensate for that. That's the only limitation. PCI 4.0 m.2 m-key with at least 7GB/s read speed. Otherwise standard drive.

[FinalFantasyFanatic]

You can blame the PS5/SeriesX for helping crash the prices of SSDs, I'd love more SSD storage, the prices are just coming down too slowly for my liking.

[indysurfn]

Yep you guys are RIGHT! I was wrong on that one! Sorry! SCREWED UP BIG TIME!

[excaliburps]

I have 2TB on my PS4, and all this time, I was under the assumption that I could use that for my PS5...

[jznrpg]

It’s possible if it has a usb hookup but it would only be for storage and not to play PS5 games . But it’s a new console with a very new SSD why would you think old drive would automatically work ?

[excaliburps]

@jznrpg:

I mean, just assumed that the SSD would be the primary storage, and the secondary one would load slower etc. But yeah, I can keep this just as a back up. No way I can survive with less than 1TB of storage though.

[Neonridr]

@excaliburps - you can only play PS4 / older titles off of any external HD. There is no option to have a game load slower by using the external drive for PS5 tittles. They have to be on the internal storage (or an approved expansion drive connected to the system if the PS5 is built that way).

[shaenoide]

You can use your external HDD to switch game to the SSD when needed.

[sprinterboy]

More fool you

[morganfell]

“... why would you think old drive would automatically work ?”

Because as we have discovered even “informed” gamers did not watch Cerny’s Road to PS5 Presentation where he details in great measure exactly which drives can be used, how, and for what.

https://youtu.be/ph8LyNIT9s...

[Ju]

Supposedly you can play PS4 games from the external drive. So, unless you upgrade those, it'll be perfectly fine (probably must faster, too. 10Gb/s connection (1000MB/sec) is much faster than internal PS4 drive which tops at 100MB/s - so the limit is on HD though put only, but SATA can reach 6Gb/s = 600MB/s). I have a 6TB external drive. Hope I can just plug that in. https://www.gamesradar.com/...

[B1uBurneR]

I think you are confusing ssd with NVMe bro. Question though., why people on here acting like they play that many games at once to fill the NVMe on PS5. Plus if that was the case wouldn't Quick Resume up to 4-6 games make PS5 load speed mute in the sense once the loading is done. That's that. The eye candy relies on cpu and gpu power.... not loading speed.

[morganfell]

"The eye candy relies on cpu and gpu power.... not loading speed."

Actually that isn't true because the PS5 SSD is so fast the "eye candy" is actually affected by the drive speed. The PS5 SSD in conjunction with the custom I/O means you do not have to have possible use items parked in system memory waiting. Because the drive affects how fast assets can be accessed it impacts what can be seen on screen and when.

[ballisticvoodoo]

Really? Then you assumed wrong! Zero was ever said about being able to use your external drive you use on the PS4 on the PS5. Keep it coming Xbox shill.
That's the worst part. You have people like excaliburps that are rabid fan boys. I'll play where the games are at. PS5 for their exclusives and my PC for MS exclusives. Too easy. No need to fanboy rage.

[esemce]

You can for playing PS4 games or storing PS5 ones.

[Nitrowolf2]

exactly what I'm gonna do. Hold off for prices to drop on a ssd, I have a feeling they are going to go up this November cause of demand.
Still, should see a sharp drop cause of all the competition for them

[indysurfn]

Yep there will be a LOT of demand.

regarding your last sentence, not sure why you think thre will be competition for them. You have to get a license to make a compatible drive like Seagate is doing and Western digital. They will be the same price of $200...Look at controllers. Prices drop slow when licenses are involved. Don't get me wrong I want you to be right. But don't rush it

[Nitrowolf2]

@Indy

Your comparing controllers of third party which require licensing for functionality versus a SSD which they can build for PC as they always have that could potentially support ps5. Yes there will be specific ones marketed for the PS5 which will need licensing to do that, but we are talking about buying an offshelf ssd, something we can do with HDD right now. There shouldn't be any licensing they need from Sony period, thTs the whole point of them going with a non proprietary storage solution.

I mean u can Google search a m.2 right now and several different companies will show up. Theres ALREADY IS COMPETITION. This is essentially what it will be for the PS5 once sony releases an approved supported list. This isnt like the Xbox Series where we are gonna have to wait for manufacturers to get Licensing. By the time the PS5 releases there will already be tons of supported ssd to pick from third parties.

[Neonridr]

we still don't know if any NVMe drives on the markett will even work with the PS5. It's possible that the Samsung 980 Pro is the only one that meets the standards. So while they will eventually fall in price, there needs to be more options available first.

[BrettAwesome]

Yes we do, dummy. WD has one that's compatible.

[Neonridr]

@BrettAwesome - that was literally just announced (I hadn't seen that when this comment was made). My apologies for being a "dummy".

[Jin_Sakai]

It’s crazy to think PS5 comes standard with a NVMe SSD that’s literally $229 on it’s own. We’re getting an amazing deal on next gen consoles that’s for sure.

[ABizzel1]

This is the best thing to do for the next couple of years until NVMe SSD prices drop to a more reasonable range and offer at least an additional 2TB of storage.

Everyone should be buying an external HDD or SSD this holiday season (Black Friday / Cyber Monday), to store their games on. $50 gets you at least 4TB easy.

[sprinterboy]

I'll likely pick one up year 2 or 3 into the gen and hopefully the price is down to £100 for say a 2tb

[Hedstrom]

The USB 3.2 with 10GB/S transfer speed is going to be awesome for external storage solutions!

[purple101]

***"this"***

[Ju]

Ya, and as expensive. LOL. They sell 2TB nvme USB 10Gb/s drives for $300. But those will be awesome. You need an nvme drive to actually reach 1GB/s. SATA tops out at 500MB/s. Unless you are looking at a SATA RAID0 enclosure, which, then again, costs you, Kinda surreal how fast this thing actually is, if you think about it.

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

Well the SSD would still need to have minimum read speeds of 5.5 GB/s to be compatible with PS5. I've seen the slot up close from photos and the slot clearly shows the last two digits of these sizes:

2038
2042
2060
2080

[ziggurcat]

Yeah, when the compatible drives with a decent amount of space come down in price, that's when I'll jump on one, I think.

[S2Killinit]

I’ll be waiting on a nice SSD with similar specs to the super fast one inside the PS5. Make it smooth.

[pocolocoX]

The 980 Pro from Samsung is available now.

[XBManiac]

And with better stats than the PS5 one. I wonder how much faster PS5 will be with a Samsung 980 Pro... I think a 15% faster, but it is not cheap, right now. Maybe for end next year, when 8GB/s PCIe Gen 4 NVME without compression will be standard on PC.

[purple101]

What is very interesting from teardown is it has the blue USB connectore..meaning USB 3.1 or 3.2...

so if you have an external hard drive that has as USB 3, it will be twice as fast as the usb2 ones on PS4 and Xbox. because even if you are using a USB 3 drive you would be limited by the USB 2 port on the console.

That's just on USB drives. Not on SSD even I'm talking plain old usb passport drives. (Good quality ones such as wdpassport) great news

[Hakuoro]

Yes, PS5 has "SuperSpeed" 10Gbit/s USB support, it's the only console that has that. The. SX is 5Gbit/s.

[HICK]

I didn't catch this spec. Is the 10Gbit/s speed only for the front USB-C port or does it include the back USB 3.x ports too? If you can point me to this info that would be great. Thanks in advance.

[Hakuoro]

HICK,

The PS5 has one front USB with 10Gbit/s and both rear USB are also 10Gbit/s.

Here is the teardown video at the USB explaination.
https://youtu.be/CaAY-jAjm0...

[I_am_Batman]

Why is this even a rumor? We've clearly seen that they support four different nvme lengths in the teardown video. The screwholes are even labeled 80, 60, 42 and 30 which are standard lengths in mm for m.2 drives.

[PS-Gamer-1986]

i love that sony is consumer friendly unlike the direct competion with its proprietary ssd's.

[Sayai jin]

The slot is proprietary. MS has stated that they are working with 3rd party vendors sp there will be more options. Personally, I like the PSabolity to add my own ssd later, but also the average consumer will not necessarily no what type of ssd to buy for it.

[gerbintosh]

I like the fact that I can use any addon ssd I buy for the ps5 either in my computer or an external enclosure later if I get a bigger drive. Can't do that with the series x drive

[shaun mcwayne]

But with the size of ps5 you think they could fit a bigger hd some where. It has enough room for a small family in there. Boom another one.

[indysurfn]

Okay funny one!

[indysurfn]

Yeah Bro Sony has a proprietary Drive that they designed. It is not standard. They announced that part last year when talking about it being a game changer.

[isarai]

I think you're getting the internal SSD and the expansion option confused

[indysurfn]

Your probably RIGHT! I was wrong on that one! Sorry!

[PS-Gamer-1986]

@indy
Ofcourse the ssd which is located directly on the motherboard isn't exchangable by consumers. I'm obviously talking about the expansion slot which allows different regular ssd, which later on be widely available from loads of manufacturers

[esemce]

You forget the Vita memory cards ? I know Sony has not. A lesson learned I think as that was a part of it's downfall.

[Gardenia]

Always good to have a choice between different sizes and manufacturers. I can see the prices of SSD's will drop within the next year since now PS5 has a huge market for SSD sales.

[indysurfn]

You know it's proprietary right?

[isarai]

No it's not lol

[WillyC009]

Why does this guy keep saying this in this article? It’s not proprietary lol. You can keep saying lies but it doesn’t magically become fact.

[Ozzy2407]

@indysurn I think you need to watch the video again you clearly don't understand.

[blackblades]

I doubt it, a good fast 2tb wont be $100 with in a year.

[PS-Gamer-1986]

The good thing is though is: unlike having to swap an og ssd for a new one, you only have to add an ssd, since the og ssd is already on the mainboard. This means you only have to get your hands on a matching 100 gb ssd, you are approaching the 2 tb mark.

[XiNatsuDragnel]

Sweet idea

[Miacosa]

It's all about the read/ write speeds the physical size should not be a factor as the space allotted in the unit seems to follow standard NVME sizes.

[cell989]

Good engineering, future proof

[warriorcase]

I feel like the author and a lot of users have never used or seen m.2 slots before. Having screw spots for different sizes is used for compatibility. Slide in the m.2, press it down and screw where it lands.

[Imortus_san]

Wester Digital as already one PS5 Compatible 230$ 1TB and 440$ 2 TB.