PS5 Black Friday Upgrade: 2TB Samsung 980 Pro SSD for $189

Sony’s PS5 console has a powerful GPU, and a great selection of games, but it comes with a modest 825 GB SSD inside. Popular games such as Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War and Marvel’s Avengers can get close or even exceed 200GB of disk space all by themselves. If you can only fit a handful of games on the PS5’s main SSD, you’re going to be very limited. Fortunately, Sony has a simple solution. You can add a second, M.2 SSD to hold more games. However, PS5 has some very explicit requirements as you need to have a PCIe 4.0 drive with a 5,500 MBps or higher sequential read speed, a heatsink and the whole thing cannot be any thicker than 11.25mm. While you can add an aftermarket heatsink to any SSD, it’s easier to get a drive that comes with the heatsink onboard. Samsung’s 980 Pro SSD is not only fast enough to meet the PS5 SSD speed requirements, but it also is available with a heatsink that’s just the right size. And now you can get the 2TB capacity for just $189 at Amazon (opens in new tab) , which is an epic low price. (opens… Read full this story

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