Don’t get to comment on many 3 year old articles that haven’t had a new comment in over 11 months but as I just installed a new Corsair 1TB into my PS5 two days ago I’ll say th the guide was very helpful. You absolutely cannot just buy one of the best SSDs on the market, for example, and bang it in the console. While that drive may be very good, it may not be fast enough to be PS5 compatible. I mean if you don't have a huge library (in terms of the total size of the games in GB, not necessarily the number of games) or you tend to play only one or two games at a time before uninstalling them and installing new ones, then it's not really an issue. But then, if that's the way you do things then it wouldn't be an issue if you had the digital version either. Next, although the ATTO tests were quite good, but not what I would have hoped from this SSD, so I moved on to the Crystal Disk Mark testing to see how well it would handle our lasts barrage of tests. The first test was the 1GB file testing, which measured both sequential and random, as well as the read and write IOPS. Test were conducted on a 1GB, 4GB and 16GB Test File. I also included a mixed 70/30 read and write task to give a little bit more of a realistic balanced workload. These tests were conducted with 1-minute cooling break in between However, there are a few things to consider when buying a PS5 compatible SSD: a qualified NVMe SSD must have PCIe 4.0 interface with at least 5,500MB/s sequential read speed, a heatsink and the total height has to be 11.25mm or thinner.

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Best PS5 SSD 2023

If you choose the latter, you'll have to add your own. However, they are reasonable inexpensive and easy to fit. So that is the physical design of the Addlink A95 SSD. But what about the hardware components themselves? Does the Addlink A95 cut the mustard in terms of current generation hardware and protocols? Let’s find out. Addlink A95 SSD Review – PS5 Benchmark Much like the Controller on the Addlink A95 being the ‘CPU’, it also has an area of memory. The Addlink A95 SSD uses 2666Mhz DDR4 memory on board and this in conjunction with the SSD provides a massive body of data handling resources for getting your data moving through the SSD and out of the m.2 NVMe PCIe 4 interface. The amount of memory scales in conjunction with the 1TB or 2TB SSD you use, with 2GB of DDR4 at the on the 2TB tier, 1GB DDR4 on the 1TB, etc. As you might expect from an M.2 NVMe SSD that boldly promises performance of over 7,000MB/s sequential read (ie BIG data), the hardware specifications and architecture of the Addlink A95 are quite modern. Indeed, for all the big talk of the Seagate Firecuda 530 hardware (still currently the ‘score to beat’ PCIE Gen4 m.2 NVMe right now) being top tier, the Addlink A95 is pretty darn similar on the spec sheet! Below is how it looks: Addlink A Series A95 SSD

Btw I have a disc version too, I have a 2TB external HDD for most PS4 games and I'm in no hurry to expand my PS5 game storage, so my point isn't that you should go out and buy an SSD or anything. More that all PS4/PS5 discs are good for is being able to sell your game second hand - they don't affect the amount of storage you need to play themIt comes from one of the most respected component makers in the world and also has one of the best heatsinks attached. As such, you really do just have to take the drive out of its box and slot it into the PS5 – installation really is that simple. A closer look a the heatsink base shows you just how well it surrounds each chip (with clear indications of where each was placed from imprints). Additionally, you can see that the consistency of the silica gel pad is not the same as the reusable pads in other heatsinks, with this substance having more in common with thermal paste found on CPUs. The slightly porous nature of it definitely seemed to ensure that the components were adequately covered and it does leave you with a distinct feeling of quality and professional application.

You could easily get by for several years this way and never run out of space by keeping the least played stuff on "cold storage" with ps4 titles and your other more played titles on the ssd while a few of your favorites as well as currently playing title reside on the internal. The most convenient option, this 4TB SSD comes with a PS5-specific heatsink cover that works brilliantly.The terabytes-written spec is a manufacturer's estimate of how much data can be written to a drive before some cells begin to fail and get taken out of service. Addlink warranties the A93 for five years or until you hit the rated TBW figure in data writes, whichever comes first. As mentioned, the Addlink A95 NVMe SSD fits very neatly into the PS5 SSD upgrade slot, with a clear few millimetres between the heatsink and the m.2 slot cover. Although it is worth highlighting that this heatsink was originally designed for a gaming desktop PC installation (like 99% of other M.2 SD heatsinks), so I will hold full judgement on how efficient the A95 heatsink is for PS5 heat dissipation for another article/video soon. There are two big considerations to bear in mind when choosing a PlayStation 5-compatible SSD card.

Next, I switched to AS SSD benchmark. A much more thorough test through, I used 1GB, 3GB and 5GB test files. Each test includes throughput benchmarks and IOPS that are respective to the larger file sizes (important, if you are reading this and trying to compare against the reported 4K IOPS from the manufacturer). Microsoft's expansion SSD should be a lot cheaper. This may be a big problem for Sony until prices come down. To beging with, the card needs to be an M.2 SSD and you can't just buy any model, it has to match certain criteria in terms of speed.Looking at the Addlink A95 at an angle shows that, despite the aggressive nature of the heatsink, it is actually not very tall. In fact, the Low-Profile designed heatsink is only has a 9.1 mm height, with the total Heatsink+silica+SSD coming to just under 11.25mm. With space being at a premium in the PS5 M.2 SSD slot (and users wanting a little space around/above their SSD+HS to promote any airflow, this is particularly impressive. The AddGame A95 SSD comes with a High-Grade aluminum heatsink with a Shark-Fin design that can effectively reduce the temperature by up to 30%. Most Importantly, it can be used on both computers and the Sony PS5 game console. The rear of the box makes a point of not only highlighting that this SSD is PS5 compatible, but also it’s one of the first SSDs I have had in for review that actually features the official PS5 logo. Along with that, there is a little nod to the heatsink and rather unique (at least as far as other M.2 SSDs on the market) application of the heatsink, using a much more malleable substance (we will go into more detail later) they are keen to highlight that this does an improved job of maintaining the SSD temperature. This will be covered at the last 3rd of this review in the testing and benchmarking.