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s0nicfan posted...

When the PS5 first launched Sony claimed that only special Sony approved ssds could be installed because theirs were so super fast that other ones in the market couldn't compete.

Mark Cerny was huffing his own farts, but he isn't wrong. The PCIe bandwidth throughput needed a very fast SSD to be able to do the render and compute times according to what Sony wanted on the PS5. It uses PCIe gen 4, and required a minimum of 5600MB/s read. There were hacky workarounds to get lower spec drives to work, but it was suboptimal. The best thing Sony did was not require you to have proprietary SSDs like the Xbox Series X. You can put any M.2 NVMe in your PS5 as long as you had the theoretical read write speeds it requires.