PS5 Loading Times Don’t Seem to Suffer Even with the Slowest Compatible Gen 4 M.2 SSDs

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PlayStation 5 owners have been scrambling to lock down a premium M.2 SSD following the release of a beta software update that finally unlocked the next-gen console’s expansion slot last week, but recent tests have revealed that even cheaper SSDs that don’t quite match Sony’s 5,500 MB/s sequential read speed recommendation can provide a level of performance that’s consistent with both the internal SSD and higher-priced models.



This is what The Verge discovered after testing one of the cheapest PCIe Gen4 SSDs it could find, ADATA’s XPG Gammix S50 lite, which features a 3,900 MB/s read speed and 3,200 MB/s write speed. Despite these relatively unremarkable specifications, the loading times of the XPG Gammix were not much different than the ones granted by the PS5’s internal SSD and a 5,000 MB/s Sabrent Rocket.



Amusingly, the XPG Gammix even managed to...

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