You want faff-free installation: If you're worried about the DIY involved with the SSD installation, don't be. Design and features: The 990 Pro is available with or without a heatsink, now in up to a 4TB capacity.

It doesn’t smother them (so no touching the PCB) but it does surround the edges of each component to cover a greater physical density, whilst still remaining tidy. If none of the SSDs above tickle your fancy, then feel free to check our list of the best PS5 SSDs which also has more information on the installation procedure and Sony's requirements for compatible SSDs. Many times, we want to purchase products from USA simply because they are not available in India or the cost might be high. You shouldn't run into thermal throttling unless you chuck the device in a PC without a heatsink, but we'd never recommend that with any M. For your money, you get the drive which comes with WD's Windows dashboard, a USB-C cable and USB-A adapter, a quick install guide, and a 5-year warranty I'd be surprised if you need to use.

You can expect games in the sub-100GB range to take well under a minute, as we found with Demon's Souls (53. Unlike synthetic numbers, this is comprehensive real-world data which is why we use it to rank SSDs in terms of user experience.

To save you some DIY faff, we'd argue the best PS5 SSDs are ones that have heatsinks already pre-attached. WD Black's SN850X and Samsung's 980 and 990 drives are close seconds, with some even beating the FireCuda in terms of pure speed. Its USB-C port can be used on your devices as either a USB-A or USB-C connection and in our testing, we got the same speeds through either port so it shouldn't matter which you have free or available, or if you change the device it's used with during its lifetime. Since 2004, I have worked on PCMag’s hardware team, covering at various times printers, scanners, projectors, storage, and monitors.

Addlink is a well-known purveyor of budget SSDs, and its AddGame A93, an internal solid-state drive, keeps to the script by selling for a moderate cost per gigabyte.

You want the absolute last word in speed: If you want the fastest of the very fast, you might be able to get better with the 990 Pro. The quality of the NAND and the layers used will make a big difference to the durability and performance. Do you think I got a defective one, or is this normal to be over 1200 less than the published speed.As expected, the lower-capacity drives are a tad slower, but they're still rated for up to 7300 MB/s - 7400 MB/s read speeds, which is very high even by high-performance desktop standards.