PlayStation might have you convinced that your first-gen PS5 has more than enough storage, but it’s time you learned the truth. In reality, the custom-built 825GB SSD is barely large enough to protect the latest Call of Duty from being sent to the shadow realm every time you want a new game. What, then? It’s time to take matters into your own hands.
Enter Western Digital’s SN850P NVMe SSD – available in a range of 1,2, 4, or 8TB sizes. Stick with the smallest size available or go balls to the wall – the choice is yours. Whatever your decision, you’ll never need to worry about making room for new games again.
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Physical media is dying, fast. The gaming industry has fully embraced the digital lifestyle, and gamers have to pay the price. Sure, some are doing their best to keep physical alive, but they are shrinking by the year. It doesn’t help that games are getting larger and larger to accommodate better graphics, huge open worlds, and high framerates.
It falls on the gamers to make up for poor optimisation. Give it a couple of years, and third-party storage solutions will become a necessity, rather than a luxury.
Arguably the largest factor impacting SSD adoption is fear of the unknown. People are rightfully frightened of opening up their very expensive gaming consoles – preferring to make do with the pre-installed SSD. Fortunately, Western Digital has made installing its line of SSDs as simple as possible, requiring nothing more than a simple
screwdriver.
Still not confident in your abilities? Watch Western Digital install the SN850P on the original PS5 and the PS5 Slim.
Two minutes later, your SSD is locked and loaded, ready to go to work. It’ll do so using the SN850P’s excellent 7,300MB/s sequential read speeds – easily surpassing the original PS5’s 5,500MB/s read speeds. That means a couple of things. One – more games. Two, and arguably more important – faster load times than all your friends.
But easily the most impressive feature? It’s incredible form factor, arriving in a minute package that can easily slot right into your PS5, with no technical expertise required. That’s all down to the heatsink design, allowing Western Digital to offer storage stretching as high as 8TB. Better yet, it’ll slot right into a PC with the M.2 (M-key) port built in.
The SN850P is as plug-and-play as it gets, meaning you can skip all those unnecessary load times – allowing gamers to immediately download games to their drive, or transfer them over when needed. Games can be opened directly from the drive, leading to massively reduced load times. Perfect for Grand Theft Auto V players.
Owners of the SN850P might not get to see their purchase in action, but there’s no denying it’s one sexy bit of kit. Being officially licenced by PlayStation doesn’t just mean it gets to use the logo on the design – it also allows players to expand their storage with confidence in the Sony and Western Digital brand.
Ready to take the plunge? You can pick up the Western Digital SN850P NVMe SSD in your choice of 1,2,4, and 8TB solutions from Koodoo, Game4U, and Incredible Connection.
