Sunday, February 28th 2021
Sony Reportedly Planning To Enable Storage Upgrades on PS5 in Summer
The Sony PlayStation 5 comes with an internal 825 GB PCIe 4.0 SSD which offers around 667 GB of usable storage for games and other content. With new games such as the latest Call Of Duty easily taking over 100 GB the need for more storage has never been more evident. Sony has prepared for this eventuality by including an internal M.2 drive bay on the PS5 to expand the available storage. The shift to ultra-fast storage on this latest generation of consoles has limited their ability to support external storage as new games developed for the consoles will expect a certain level of performance. Sony will reportedly enable software support for the M.2 slot with a limited selection of tested PC drives to ensure these minimum performance requirements are achieved. The approach by Sony differs from that of Microsoft who has created a proprietary connector for storage upgrades.
Source:
Bloomberg
44 Comments on Sony Reportedly Planning To Enable Storage Upgrades on PS5 in Summer
Perhaps giving a time frame in months would be more useful.
The report with the information comes from Bloomberg and it only gives Summer (USA) as an estimated timeframe so I would expect 3 - 6 Months.
4 second games load instead of 3.5?
the os and the game are on the same ssd
its 8 core and like an super 5700 XT graphic card
more speed you have , more the all system work well
when you buy a console its for 5 year ...you dont know what will games and systrem need in 5 year
you see for exemple nearly all DDR3 manufacture close , in 5 year if you put old ssd will you have the good memory or controler ?
you have the exemple of the ps4 pro : with hdd you have good game , if you put an ssd instead you game change ( no one tell you that ) the graphic a more beutifull
to finish your a WRONG the xbox serial X have pci4 controler SSD BUT the speed is low 2500 not 7000 because its an industrial / pro SSD 2.5 M life hour / H24 / 1 year retention data .. its an 300/400 $ 1TO ssd nvme ( difficult to find the real price )
Product Brief: Western Digital IX SN530 NVMe Industrial-Grade SSD
That's pretty ridiculous, I can't understand why they couldn't just go with a standard NVMe solution for the internal storage which wouldn't have generated this bizarre situation of having to be very careful about how you expand it. It's not like a 3 GB/s NVMe drive wouldn't have been a good enough of an upgrade from the dog slow HDDs. They just can't help themselves trying to over engineer and over complicate aspects about these consoles for no tangible benefit, can they ?
Though Sony did say storage expansion was not gonna be ready on launch day and that it would take a few months...
This shoud have been available day 1.
but open door for crack
serie X is so cool , i take 2.5 from old xbox put on the serie X and all games works
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If you can use that speed for work, that's great, but for gaming and Win startup, you shouldn't spend more money than what a SATA3 costs. Only if you want 2 less cables and hotter SSD.
Why do modern console need to install the game? why cant just play the game from the disk and only store the updated files on the drive? Cant the console just read the main game files from the disk and read the updated files from the drive? This way we can save a lot of space. A game updates and DLC are probably less than 10gb. Nowdays I learned that the disk only serve as a physical key.
With that space on the PS5 at best, you can only have 7-8 AAA games installed, while back in my era I could pretty much play all my hundred games without having to install/reinstall the games.
Any SSD today easily reaches 500 MB/s if not way more. And access times are way faster too (1 ms or less). Even a HDD has higher performance than a Blu-ray drive, with reads easily reaching around 100 MB/s, maybe even as high as 250 MB/s if the HDD is a high performance model, with access times around 20 ms or less.
This whole "certified SSD" thing isn't going to bode well. There quite literally should not be any problem running any modern NVME drive, even last gen PCIE3 drives like the 970 EVO, SN750 should theoretically be fine. It'll most likely get locked down to the SN850, 980 Pro, or some variation of those rebranded for the PS5 with Sony's "certification" on it.
game update .. look ubisoft game .. at first launch it could be .. 10 / 20gb or th whole game .....
i have serie X and the xbox X : not a gap between them / SSD / SHHD hdd with cache ssd
And Sony is already selling the console at a loss.
Less compression means lower CPU usage to decompress, and consoles are always CPU limited
Sadly this means devs will just be lazy and give us 100GB+ games, but hey they'll load faster!