Customer Ratings & Reviews

When the PS5 first came out and I realized that you could expand the memory. I was obviously on board. Never had the guts to do it with my PS4 or a decent reason to, but with PS5 and the incredible game library for the last five consoles, there's definitely a good reason. This thing fits into the slot on the back side of the console at an angle. You pin it down and there's a screw that's already provided depending upon the length of what SSD drive you put into the system. You can find videos on YouTube on how to do so. It's quite simple and very very easy. A simple set of tools is all you will need and make sure to do everything carefully and slowly. From there, you will start the system back up. It'll automatically format the SSD and then you just go back into the PS5 settings and tweak your save settings. For example, I have everything going to the SSD drive and almost absolutely nothing going to the internal memory so that it doesn't burn out as fast. I highly recommend this product. You can't even tell where it's saved. You just know that it saved and it's moving just as fast as if it was safe to the system.

I'm reviewing the Crucial P310 PCI Express 4.0 high-performance SSD with a heatsink, in 80mm size. The 80mm version is for laptop and desktop machines. I tested the 2TB storage model. It uses Micron's 232-layer Quad Level Cell NAND flash memory. 232-layer QLC NAND is the densest QLC NAND available. It's DRAM-less, using your PC's main memory as a host memory buffer (HMB). My understanding is that QLC NAND stores four bits per cell, and that potentially impacts performance and endurance compared to TLC (Triple-Level Cell) NAND. Regardless, this SSD delivers a minimum of 5,500 MB/s read speed, which is what Sony recommends for the PS5. Considering games take up so much room nowadays you're probably better off going with a 4TB mode, but the price goes up enough that you're probably better off going with a different more performant drive. In my tests, the P310 slightly exceeded Micron's claimed read and write speeds. Overall, the P310 demonstrated solid PCIe 4.0 speed compared to a competing drive I had on my desktop PC. I was a little disappointed with the QLC flash memory because it has a lower terabytes written (TBW) rating than non-QLC drives. For example, another 2 TB drive I have from the most popular drive maker has a 1200 TBW. The Crcuial 2TB model has a 440 TBW rating. The drive's five-year warranty is valid as long as the TBW rating is not exceeded. My typical PC use is unlikely to go reach this before the warranty expires but something I look at. I ran PCMARK and DiskBench tests. The P310 2280 did well on both. The numbers seem to be in line with other drives in the same price range amd reviewed on the web. The QLC flash memory caps the top speeds at lower write performance but it was good enough to compete but not beat higher-end drives and slightly beat a lower end drive I have on my PC. Considering it’s DRAM-less, the results were pretty good for sustained copy jobs and big files. I didn't test performance when the drive was fill, which can drop performance, as there's less spare area to work with. If you need DRAM and/or TLC flash then go with the T500 model but it will be more expensive.