The Best Expansion Storage for PS5 and Xbox Consoles

[Amir Shoam]

Game storage demands keep on rising, especially for PS5 and Xbox Series gamers. From PS5 storage upgrades to Xbox expansion cards, here's what you need to know before you buy.

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The Best Expansion Storage for PS5 and Xbox Consoles

 

[airbornex]

PS5 storage upgrades... sure, you can do it yourself, but there's a 50% chance you'll end up Googling "why won’t this SSD fit."

Meanwhile, Xbox's official expansion cards are like buying ink for a printer—it's not about the product being good, it's about being locked into a monopoly that makes your wallet cry.

 

[yukka]

Just bought and fitted a Crucial T500 2TB SSD PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Internal Gaming SSD, Up to 7400MB/s from Amazon for £99 with a £4 ARCTIC M2 Pro - Heatsink cooler for M.2 2280 SSD, with ARCTIC TP-3.

PS5 reports 5500MB/s and I promptly downloaded 60 games from the PSP Premium game catalogue. All games I want to play. £10 a month. Stupidly good value.

 

[toooooot]

Imagin if xbox and PS had proprietary soldered storage.
MS and Sony could have sold 2-3 consoles to each person within console's lifecycle.
Soldering SSDs should be considered a scam and punishable by law.

 

[dalpilot]

Somehow, Microsoft gets away with charging exorbitant prices for its storage expansions due to its unique form factor and only allowing two vendors (Seagate & WD) to produce these vendors to be the only vendors allowed to produce these unusual (I believe its 2242 drives in a special form factor. If they opened it up to all vendors and just provided the specifications we would have real competition for these expansion drives - not the absurd prices we see now.

 

[CMP01]

Got a 2Tb Corsair M600 Pro LPX as recommended for my PS5 in August last year.
Another good deal at the time which saw me get, for the price of the PS5 Pro that NVME, a PS5 Disc Edition, extra controller (black), controller dock, TV remote, Razer Barracuda X headset (white) and 1 year of PS+ Premium. I'd say I did alright though tbh it turns out I was never using that PS5 as much as the PC/laptop (for good reasons that I'm fine with*) and the 2Tb drive was somewhat overkill vs, say, 2Tb for games on the PC/laptop.

That said, the Corsair drive was good enough for me to pick the 2230 1Tb version for the Steam Deck.

*Fwiw I bought into the PS5 knowing it'd never supplant PC. The PS5 being good for covering all the old past gen PS exclusives I missed out on (many on PS+ and not on PC) some of the current gen exclusives and easy cosy couch coop/split screen. Otoh I'll continue to main PC for the exclusives that never make console (mainly strategy games/IP's old and new, which was my first PC love) and mods.

 

[dangh]

PS5 storage upgrades... sure, you can do it yourself, but there's a 50% chance you'll end up Googling "why won’t this SSD fit."

Someone would have to be really illiterate to make such a mistake, and usually it will still work even without the cover.
Sony consistently offer upgrade options, which is a great value to everyone.

 

[Megalomaniac]

This is part of the reason I've fallen out of love with the consoles. The storage options are nothing more than a painfully obvious cash grab. I wouldn't buy anything short of 4TB for the life of these systems. A 4TB SSD is about $200 which isn't too bad. But then you've got to be certain the model will work on the system. Better to just get a PC with video card and more RAM memory already included.

 

[Anthony j]

What really sucks is that technology isn’t at the point where they are able to compress the size of games but they just keep getting bigger and bigger. If you purchase a PS5 now and plan to play Call of duty and/or Fortnite, then be prepared to either be forced to buy another drive or be stuck just playing 2 games. It’s insane

 

[AndreV]

Just bought and fitted a Crucial T500 2TB SSD PCIe Gen4 NVMe M.2 Internal Gaming SSD, Up to 7400MB/s from Amazon for £99 with a £4 ARCTIC M2 Pro - Heatsink cooler for M.2 2280 SSD, with ARCTIC TP-3.

PS5 reports 5500MB/s and I promptly downloaded 60 games from the PSP Premium game catalogue. All games I want to play. £10 a month. Stupidly good value.

Where did those 2GB less in speed go?

 

[yukka]

Where did those 2GB less in speed go?

Absolutely no idea but 5500 is the minimum recommended speed I believe. And generally differences are in 1-2 seconds between different drive speeds.

 

[AndreV]

Imagin if xbox and PS had proprietary soldered storage.
MS and Sony could have sold 2-3 consoles to each person within console's lifecycle.
Soldering SSDs should be considered a scam and punishable by law.

PS5 does have soldered SSD. Xbox has M2 socket but is still tied to the CPU so in either cases, *when the SSD dies, you throw the whole console.