As part of the Prime Day Sale event, Amazon is offering the best price I've seen this year for a high-speed 4TB SSD from a reputable brand. Right now you can pick up a Crucial P310 4TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe Solid State Drive with pre-installed heatsink for just $234.99 with free delivery. The Crucial P310 is a newer (late-2024) release. This is a DRAM-less QLC-based SSD that fulfills all of the PS5 storage requirements - including fast transfer speeds - and comes with a pre-attached heatsink so that is is drop-in ready.
4TB Crucial P310 SSD (PS5 Compatible) for $234.99
The P310 is very fast for a "budget" M.2 SSD. This is a PCI-E 4x4 drive with transfer speeds of up to 7,1000MB/s read and 6,000MB/s write, which passes Sony's recommended minimum requirement of 5,5000MB/s. To save costs, the Crucial P310 doesn't have onboard DRAM, and instead uses HMB, or onboard system memory for buffering. For most people (including PS5 gamers), the performance difference is imperceptible. Another cost cutting measure is that it uses the newest QLC flash memory instead of TCL. TLC has longer endurance than QLC but the Crucial P310 4TB model has a whopping 800TBW rating. There is almost no chance that you can hit that limit on a PS5 console, since the only time you'll be transferring any file size of significance is when you're installing a new game.
Performance and feature-wise, the Crucial P310 is similar to other popular SSDs like the Samsung Evo Plus and the WD Black SN7100, however Crucial's 4TB model is the least expensive of the three options, especially with the heatsink pre-attached. With games taking up as much as 100GB of space apiece, it's very easy to max out the PS5's stock 1TB storage, and it's not unheard of to max out an additional 2TB of space. Add 4TB and never look back.
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Over the past few console generations with built-in storage, gamers were typically stuck with however much storage that came with the console. With the PS5, Sony made a surprising move by including an internal M.2 PCIe slot to install an off-the-shelf SSD to supplement the internal storage. Given that this is the same company that paired the PS Vita and PSP with ludicrously expensive memory cards, this was a welcoming change of pace, especially given the paltry 825GB of storage you have to work with. Now, you can install high-end PC SSDs like the Corsair MP600 Pro LPX, our number one pick, to load even more games nearly as fast as the extra-special drive that's built into the console itself.
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