Has dram and heatsink, gen 4 good drive for ps5 at historical low
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Don't need to neg the deal tho lol
The description says it's good for PS5, which might lead someone to buying one.
The neg can help draw their attention to the issue before they waste their time and money.
Than report the description.
Still no reason to neg the deal. The OP said it's suitable for PS5 and not Corsair.
Appropriate action is to report the deal.
How's that a reason to neg?
It's an NVME drive, it's primary purpose if for PC's.
you get my + over the cray babies,
thanks
Read the rules, rather than neg a legitimate deal cause it's not what you personally want.
doesn't really matter, there isn't one game that suffers with a 5000mb drive
PS5 gaming is not able to take full advantage of PCIe gen 4 SSD. Part of the reason is the coding of games. You might think 5500 to 7000 sequential read is so fast. However, that speed is already cheating speed (since is it high queue high threads).
The main issue is for developers, it is a pain to code in a way to demand certain speed from SSD. The main reason is that the speed is still no good compared to memory / RAM. It's just silly to let go of RAM and rely on SSD. So, no sane developer will do that. Therefore, SSD merely contributes to game loading and it is not going to break the game if the SSD is a bit slower.
Furthermore, don't forget hardware compression. So if the textures are highly compressed, the heavy lifting goes to GPU and CPU.
One of the slowest Gen 4 drives, the WD SN750 SE 250GB with read/write of 3200/1000 MB/s has no issues working in the PS5 - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWQs4UpiKlg
This MP600 along with all the other Phison E16 2TB drives like the FireCuda 520 and Spatium M470 are more than capable in a PS5 as long as a heatsink is installed
The most important metric for PS5 is sustained write speed at 25/50/75% capacity as this determines how long you stare at the copy screen whilst transferring huge GB's of game data around
Tomshardware has done a test already (heatsink vs without vs cover open for PS5). Generally, for Phison E16 SSDs, that heatsink is mostly cosmetic. We install it on PS5 mainly because Sony recommends it. The thermal throttle could happen on writes BUT Sony PS5's internal SSD's flash isn't even 1TB. Furthermore, Phison E16's ordinary sustained write isn't going to cause it to thermal throttle.
SN750 SE 250GB is a bit of an extreme case. It doesn't make sense for most people, a PS5 only has 1 NVMe slot so why would you put 250GB SSD in it? The actual issue with 250GB was NOT 1000MB/s (because Phison E16 SSD's sustained write is merely ~650MB/s), the issue is that the SLC cache runs out super quick and at 250GB, due to not optimised, we might be looking at less than 300MB/s. Furthermore, SN750 SE has a firmware glitch (or it might be E19T glitch), it does really annoying super aggressive SLC cache recovery, and when that happens, the write speed drops down to 100MB/s. Weirdly, when the SSD realised it shouldn't bother attempting recovery, its native TLC NAND write speed is acceptable.
If you have a decent size SSD, there are a few factors determining the write speed. While how much the SSD is filled is one factor, it also depends on whether the SLC cache has recovered or not.
The heatsink looks huge. Would it fit the ps5 with the ssd cover on?
Thanks
ordered one … had a $20 Amazon voucher so came to $224 … incredible price !
Looks like it is sold out. These discounted E16 SSDs do sell well thanks to PS5.
not reccomend for ps5 read an write speed. you need at least 5500MB. This is one at read an write speed 4950/4250 MB/s!