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.

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

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.

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 ?

@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.

@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).

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

@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.

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.

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.

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 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

Okay funny one!

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

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

Its like the final episode of the Sapranos. You gonna go to make a comment and when you click add th-

Timezone thing maybe.... RIP