PlayStation 5 teardown reveals storage expansion bay, massive heatsink

Loved it! I think it is a smart move for them to go ahead of the curve this time and do the (inevitable) teardown themselves :)
Can't put my finger on it, but there is some beaty to it: the liquid metal (hope it will last), the circular arrangement of the RAM chips, the pcb-installed SSD with its own little controller, and so on. The fan is a monster, and that heatsink is certianly no joke! Very good in my book, there is at least a chance of silent (or near-silent) operation.
And I am not even a fan of consoles (always have been a PC-rat). This time I feel tempted though...
 
No you do not lmao, SSD's are made to a standard differing in memory types and latency which differs in performance. Each and every single SSD will operate on the PS5 with maybe the rare exception of newer models that use some revolutionary controller and the drivers are not yet added to the PS5.

EDIT: sorry maybe the no name brand garbage tier SSD's that are sold on alibaba might be hardcoded not to be used given those lack proper cache buffers and perform like garbage in most cases. Aside from that any brand name SSD that is over 512gb+ from roughly the last 5 years will be fine.
You have to use nvme equal or faster to 7.5 gbps. Otherwise it wont work.
 
That's basically what I'm saying. Sony made the best decision. More manufacturers will scramble to create PS5-approved SSD and the more competition there is - the cheaper prices will go as the market is flooding with SSD drives.

The real winner will be the PC user who will be able to use regular PC drives or PS5-approved drives as the PC drive's prices dip.

I can't see buying those stupid Xbox SSD cartridges.

I don't like proprietary storage.

I can retask my 4TB WD HDD from my Xbox One to anything else I want. A SSD cartridge can't do that.
Where are you getting your info that the Series X can't use standard USB external hard drives? You know, the more available connection then M2 storage?
 
A "massive heatsink" tells me the CPU/GPU will be heavily overclocked (typically to save money.)
 
One thing I love about the PS5 is they went with industry standards for SSD expansion, Microsoft decided to use a proprietary SSD solution that will most likely will never be used again after this console generation of XBox. That to me is a major fail by Microsoft.
 
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