The only reason Xbox had its proprietary drive at launch is because the speed they needed was already mature tech.

There have been consumer drives fast enough for about 2 years guys. Since before the PS5 launched there have been plenty of gen 4 drives fast enough. You all seem to keep parroting that this is some cutting edge tech and it's simply not true. Since the Ryzen 3000 series.

@forstypants If none of the manufacturer can achieve the requirement from Sony, it means that the requirement itself is unachievable. It means Sony design this requirement in a vacuum & never consult the manufacturers on what is feasible.

Probably extensive testing to make sure it didn't somehow enable modding/piracy, on top of quality control testing, etc. That, and there not being many PCIE4 drives.

Sony will eventually release a pro version that I’m guessing will option more storage, but I’m with you, another year or two dealing and it’s honestly not too bad…hopefully games like COD and 2K get their shit together and stop with the bloated 100+ gb games

@darthv72

It is funny isn't it, the amount of people that were bashing xbox and seagate for the proprietary storage price, now are ok with paying these prices, even though this is more expensive.

#hypocrites

Yep.
4TB Internal drive, everything ready to go in an instant or less: $1000.
4TB external good old-fashioned non-SSD drive, store stuff on it and be patient to move it over when you want to play: $100.

Patience literally pays off in this instance.

I hope this causes SSDs to drop rapidly in price, I want at least a 2tb drive for the PS5 (a couple of 4tbs for the PC would be amazing), if they make a PS5 pro, it would be nice if they added a second M.2 drive in there.

^^for prices to drop, there needs to be an abundance of chips to make them. The chip mfg situation is not just about the ones used for making the consoles but also for cars and storage devices (like SSD) and everything that relies on the silicon.

in time things should go back to normal but who knows when that will be?

1TB M2 SSD for 250 is expensive but not insanely priced imo, yeah I wished too is lower(it will eventually), but those drives used to cost at least 500 bucks or more.

@darthv72

“And I thought the 1tb for series was $$.“

@DJStotty

“It is funny isn't it, the amount of people that were bashing xbox and seagate for the proprietary storage price, now are ok with paying these prices, even though this is more expensive.”

It’s only $35 more for the 1TB that’s twice the speed.

As for the larger sizes Xbox doesn’t have anything over 1TB so we can’t make any comparisons there.

Sony is now asking you guys to risk your own (PS5) live & may potentially pay for your own (PS5) bricking?.... & you PS5 owner is going to happily accept this?....... This is just like the old joke that you need to pay for the bullet on your own execution.

@darthv72,
I didn't mean right away, over several years, almost everything uses chips now. I consider the price of 1TB M.2 drives to be the most reasonable price at the moment, I've just been hanging on for years for those 4TB drives to drop low enough to have my PC collection of games transferred over to them. My 256GB m.2 drive is basically the price of today's 1TB drive when I built my PC 4 years ago.

The Samsung 980 pro 1tb is compatible and is cheaper that the Xbox ssd. £179 on Amazon.

@Darkborn

Here's another trigger for you, its supposed to be twice as fast, have we seen loading times twice as fast? nope. We've seen games only load 2 seconds faster lol

I can get a 1TB WD SN850 SSD for 199 right now from the WD store without a heatsink and buy a heatsink off amazon for $8 making it a cheaper purchase from the Proprietary SSD on the XSX and at double the speed capabilities. And heres a list provided by DF with SSD's that meed Sonys requirements. Multiple ones listed for 1TB @ $199 plus that $8 heatsink i mentioned for less than $220.

https://www.eurogamer.net/a...

"Seagate FireCuda 530 (heatsink version available) - $255/£235 for 1TB
Western Digital Black SN850 (heatsink version available) - $250/£218 for 1TB
Gigabyte Aorus NVMe Gen 4 7000S - $199/£188 for 1TB
Patriot Viper VP4300 - $225/£210 for 1TB
Samsung 980 Pro (requires additional heatsink) - $199/£178 for 1TB
Sabrent Rocket 4 Plus (requires additional heatsink) - $199/£199 for 1TB"

@therape... I seem to recall Ford beat Ferarri.

@CaptainHenry916 Thanks for the tip. The WD is the fastest I've now seen and the cheapest in the UK for 1TB £165. I just need some assurance it will fit and won't overheat - and get accepted onto the beta!

@zeref I wonder how far we'll get through this generation before people realise the SSD speed isn't just about knocking a couple of seconds off the load times

“The 500GB is almost the same price as the 1TB for Xbox, wild.”

Not really.

Ps5 1 tb 275
Xsx 1 tb 220.

Only $55 more for 2.3x the speed.

And because the ps5 options are third party they will likely go on sale.

i wonder how many parents what to shell out 300$ for these drives for their kids just so they can store more games, then they have to open up the console and use a screwdriver. will be easy for people that have built pc's like myself, just not the most friendly solution by cost or ease of use.

It's now £199 for the firecuda 530 1tb, prices already dropping lol.

@Darkborn
The XSX is much cheaper and is guaranteed to work. Why is Sony making their customers pay $270+ (w/heatsink that is required) to test storage compatibility. It's that what Sony's R&D should have done before launch like Microsoft? But, instead 8 months later they make their customers $270+ to be the Guinea pigs.

You guys are ok, with them asking you possibly wasting $270+?

@FinalFantasyFanatic

But that's exactly what I mean. I'm not talking about physically installing it. That is super easy and anyone can do it. I'm talking about all the variables needed to meet the specs. That's not for casual user yet. And if heat sink is so required, there is also a chance you will fry something if you do it incorrectly.

don't forget the heatsink though.

Remember this is a beta testing, meaning that even Sony is not sure what will happen next. & Sony clearly stated that they will not be responsibility if anything go wrong.

@boing1,
Fair enough, Sony could just provide a list of compatible drives or they, or the manufactures can just start slapping PS5 compatible stickers on drives. From anecdotal evidence though, most people tend to err on the side of caution when it comes to finding compatible parts if they don't have experience with this type of thing.