WD_BLACK SN850 1TB NVMe SSD - Officially Licensed for PS5 consoles - up to 7000MB/s

Very efficient and good transfer speeds, easy to install and also has heat sink included….very pleased works well with my PS5👍🏻😀

After sone research, I found this is at the time (2022) one of the best performing SSD storage devices for PS5. I would definitely recommend anything from 2TB upwards, as the PS5 is known for not having much memory especially if you’ve come from PS4. Saved games really do take up a load of space (Call of Duty), so it’s key you buy a fairly large SSD so it’s future proof.Installing the SSD is fairly easy. I highly recommend watching some of the install content on YouTube before attempting to avoid any issues.

Bought for my daughter’s PS5 to save her deleting games all the time. Literally took me 5 mins to fit and once done on restart it formats itself for you and once done is so easy to move games over. Something I didn’t realise is most external hard drives you can’t play directly from the drive you have to move games backwards and forwards with this they play directly from the drive and it’s extremely quick! Highly recommended.

The only reasons you'd want to buy this should be (a) you like official/branded stuff for 100% compatibility or (b) it is cheap on a deal. Otherwise the normal WD SN850/850X with heatsink or not is very much the same SSD.Naturally this is TLC NAND with DRAM cache (1GB?) and PCIe4 x4 lane connection.You can also toggle 4k LBA (preferred) or 512-byte (default) when secure erasing / provisioning.Performance is naturally stellar, with 7GB/s read and 6.5GB/s write and thus exceeded PS5 requirements. Do note that there may be firmware updates to apply in a PC before you install it in a PS5. Naturally you can use it in a PC and use the WD software to change the RGB LED light.I am normally a Samsung SSD guy, but this WD seems to slightly beat even the Samsung 980 Pro which is no mean feat.Only negative is that you may wish you bought the 2GB... or even 4GB one ;))

The reason I got the one terabyte version of this is because I didn’t really need 2 TB. This stands up just in loading times compared with say a firecuda it seems having faster SSDs by a few hundred mb’s does not really matter differences with minimal, and sometimes this drive was even faster. Who knows maybe the firmware is more tuned for gaming somehow if that’s possible. Also, even though it’s a 96 layer, it doesn’t seem to suffer in load and game speeds versus the 176 layer versions. The one terabyte is also single sided so will run cooler and there’s more space in the M.2 slot especially in the new 12 series PS5 which I have, as there’s no circuit board in the slot. You’re not going to really notice the difference between the Firecuda or the seagate gaming M.2 (Firecuda in blue and black with gaming firmware) really as on the tests I’ve seen on YouTube they all seem to load pretty much the same, so a 96 layer versus 176 layer with a couple of hundred more megabits per second won’t make any difference in your perception or the loading of your games or the running of them, also I like the fact that this has been tested with for the PS5 so if anything does go wrong at least you’re using the one that’s approved by Sony so they can’t say it wasn’t compatible. Also if you reset your PS5 all your games stay on the M.2 so you don’t lose anything which surprised me, it gives you the option to wipe the drive after reinstalling but you don’t have to so literally all your games and saves will stay on the drive. I think 2 TB is a bit of an overkill for my useage because I don’t plan to keep the every game I have on the drive and most PS5 games are a lot smaller than the PS4 ones. They’re kind of average around 70 GB compared with well over 100GB for most of the PS4 ones, a one terabyte should hold 9 games I think which is more than enough for my needs but the 2tb is great value and at the time of writing this is £199. So no sign of lag after hours of use, and there might possibly be firmware differences although I don’t know if that’s true or not, between the SN850X and this SN850 PS5 model. It also says SN850 PS5 in the menu, so it’s definitely been programmed with something for the PS5 whether it’s just a name or they’ve tweaked the firmware to make it better for gaming better rather than it just being a normal drive, rather like CCTV CMR spinning hard hard drives that have firmware to help not drop frames per second and are designed to run for incredibly long hours as they run 24/7, compared with a normal SMR hard drives in a computer. So who knows about the real or perceived firmware differences, but enjoy your gaming knowing its been tested for 300 hours with the ps5 no matter what size you get.

As easy to install as it can be - plenty of 'how to' videos on the tube of you and it took me about 2 minutes start to finish once it was clear in my mind what needed doing. Fiddliest bit for me was taking the case off and putting it back on but with care it clicks back into place quite easily - just don't force it.Super fast access and I store everything on it - downloads and saves. I think it might even be better than the original storage for speed and certainly for size.

used this on my ps5 and it’s a game changer as i can now download so many games and have fast loading times. the only thing is the price is a bit high for what it is but all the rest are similar anyway so can’t get it any cheaper. would recommend.

Bought to add more memory to my PS5. It didn’t come with the clearest of instructions as to how to install, but one YouTube video later, it was actually very easy to install.First switch on after installation, and all upgrade instructions popped up on the tv screen.All working correctly and happily saving all game overflows.