Western Digital Launches WD_BLACK SN850P NVMe SSD for PS5 Consoles, including 4 TB Version for $549.99

[Tsing]

Western Digital has announced that the WD_BLACK SN850P NVMe SSD for PlayStation 5 consoles is now available for purchase through its web store and participating retailers. The new PCIe 4.0 SSD, which is an officially licensed PlayStation product, is available in 1 TB, 2 TB, and 4 TB capacities, the latter of which is priced at $549.99—a figure that some critics are saying is a little extreme based on many of the other options that can be found on today's market. That said, the 4 TB version of the drive promises sequential read/write speeds of 7,300/6,600 MB/s for PS5 users, and there's also a PlayStation logo on the heat sink for those who forget what system they're installing it into.

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[Grimlakin]

So I'm going to pay for the console... AGAIN just to store more of my library as installed games?

 

[Brian_B]

So I'm going to pay for the console... AGAIN just to store more of my library as installed games?

You can always play the uninstall/reinstall game... provided you have a fast enough ISP that doesn't throttle or have caps.

Yeah, it sucks. Proprietary storage solution so they can mark it up. You can get a 4TB PS5-compatible NVMe Drive for less than half that price.