This post from MiniTool Tech gives a comprehensive review of PS5 SSDs, talking about their advantages, sizes, types, as well as how to move digital game files from the original PS4 to the new PS5.
What Are the Advantages of PS5 SSD?
On the one hand, as a solid-state drive, PS5 SSD owns the basic advantages of the kind of hard drive, fast read and write speed, shock-assistant, safer, and so on.
On the other hand, as a specialized gaming drive for the newest PlayStation 5 console, the PS5 solid state drive can easily render graphics at a higher level than even modern gaming PCs.
PS5 External SSD Expansion Unit
Some gamers want to bolster their consoles’ built-in SSD unit, which already counts almost 1 TB though it might not use all of its storage for gaming, with external ones. Therefore, they can install more wonderful games and play them there just like directly from the internal SSD.
As for PS5 SSD size, its self-contained inner SSD is of an uncommon 825GB, which is not all available and you can use 768GB at most when converted to account for the correct file format. Of course, you can increase PS5 hard drive size relying on PS5 external hard drives, PS5 SSD or PS5 HDD backward compatible with games on PS4, PS3…
When talks about the size of PS5 external hard drives, SSDs will probably have 500GB, 1TB, 2TB and 3TB; While HDDs may have larger ones like 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, etc.
PS5 Compatible SSD Drives
PlayStation 5 compatible solid-state drives should meet PS5’s expected performance levels that most drives can’t. The inner PS5 SSD will work at about 5.5Gb/s bandwidth, which is far above the levels possible using a PCIe 3.0 interface and reaching up to 3.5GB/s. Yet, PCIe 4.0 NVMe hard drives are coming to store and are able to provide a maximum of 7.0GB/s speed.
What type of SSDs is compatible with the latest PS5? The NVMe SSD disks are confirmed by Sony. You can upgrade the built-in PS5 SSD 825GB with extra NVMe SSD drives. Or, you can just replace the included SSD with a larger one, though it is somehow a waste of money, but you can if you want.
Due to the nature of PS5, you have to purchase these NVMe SSDs that are specifically whitelisted as compatible by Sony, such as the specially designed PS5 SSD disks by Western Digital (WD) and Seagate. With those special SSDs, Sony can offer some officially licensed options at the launch of the drives.
Luckily, the list of all PS5 compatible SSD drives are included in the PS5 user guide and be published together with the console hardware. So, the best choice is to rely on Sony to verify which kind of disks work best with their super-fast PS5.
Moreover, you can use the standard USB external drives on PS5 only for storing game data. You can’t PS5 games directly from it.
How to Transfer Data from PS4 to PS5?
It couldn’t be easier to migrate PS4 data to PS5 SSD as the process is explained directly on the PS5’s wrapping box. In general, connect both consoles to the same network and carry out data transmission; connect the PS4’s extended storage disk directly to the PS5 console; or back up PS4 games to PlayStation online cloud via PSN (PlayStation Network) on PS4 console and download the backup from cloud storage on the new PS5 signing in PSN.
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