WD_BLACK 1TB SN850 NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive with Heatsink - Works with Playstation 5, Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, Up to 7,000 MB/s - WDS100T1XHE

Speed after PS5 Formatting: 6539.281 MB/s

Good SSD for PS5 expansion.

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.

It installed easily. In fact it took longer to get the face plate off than to install the drive. Formatted in about 1 minute, and now holds all of my games (20) and still have room on both drives. It’s a no brainer if your a PS5 owner.

PS5

Got this to upgrade my ps5 and am not disappointed. Easy install and works great with awesome speeds!

No brainer install.

Bought it for my PS5

I had to return the first NVMe 4TB drive as it was not reconigzed by my PS5 nor could it be initialized by by laptop when installed in an external enclosure that I purchased to troubleshoot it. It was easy to return via Amazon and the replacement was delivered in under five days. I checked the replacement one in the external enclosure first, by formatting it and copying data to it. I then installed it into the PS5 with the add-on heatsink and it worked as described. I moved all the PS4 and PS5 games that were initially installed to the console and external USB storage to the newly installed NVMe 4TB storage and all is running flawlessly at the moment. I also downloaded a ton of games after joining PSN with no end in sight.

Broke down after a year and half of use