WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive with Heatsink - Works with Playstation 5, Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 7,300 MB/s - WDS200T2XHE

Screamingly fast drive, loads assets quickly and makes unoptimized games like The Last of Us run a bit more smoothly

Had some issues with this drive one in every 5 cold boots detecting the drive.

I researched what I wanted first. I decided on the WD_BLACK 2TB SN850 NVMe for additional storage. The install was easy.. I simply followed the step by step instructions that were on the Sony PlayStation website. Now I have a total of 3 TBs for PS5 games. Couldn’t be happier.

Easy installation on PS5. Impressive read speed, working well!

Undetectable by Windows or certain OSs when used with some USB-C Gen2 connections. Very odd, did work with a USB-A Gen2 connector but not with all C plugs. Using with USB-C Gen1 also failed to be detected. Likely something to do with the Gen4 PCIe design incapability with USB-C Gen 1 and certain Gen2. Best to use only with M.2 connection.

This drive is very fast, opening things on my PC open very quickly. I do some gaming and a lot of my in game load times are only a few seconds, compared to more than half a minute on my previous SSD drive. Installation was very straightforward and pretty easy. I have the model with the heatsink, so I wasnt able to use the heatsink on my motherboard, which is fine. My bios recognized the drive fine and Windows installation was very smooth. If you are looking for a fast internal drive, I would highly recommend this one.

I just performed my second install attempt with one of these drives. The first one I tried would only format up to 13%, then the PS5 would freeze and Id get a message to close the application. I tried booting in Safe Mode and uninstalling/reinstalling a few times but no bueno. Did a quick return via Amazon which is pretty much painless, now - you just dropped it off at a local UPS store and they scanned a code on my phone and took it from there. Amazon actually shipped the second one on the same day I submitted the old one for a return - a two day turnaround to get the replacement. Just installed the new one and it all went very smoothly. NOTE: make sure you put the little spacer UNDER the SSD - the install order is system board on the bottom, then the spacer, SSD (on top of the spacer) and then the screw. Took <1 minute to format and reported a Read speed of +6700 mb/sec. Moved my 5 games from the system drive to the new ssd in about 5 minutes. As long as you dont get a bad one, Id recommend this drive for your PS5 storage expansion - just make sure youve installed the latest PS software on your system first.

I got this for my son fir his PS5, and the downloading and storage is fast and quick. He can store all his PS5 game internally on this add on memory device and store his PS4 games on a external memory device. Was worth the cost and he said it was easy to install

No complaints at all

I used this to expand my PS5’s Hard drive, it works great