Expanding the game library: TOP 5 M.2 SSD for the PlayStation 5 console
In a special table you can compare the characteristics of all five M.2 SSDs from this review. And at the link you will find the entire catalog of solid state drives for self-selection.
And here is a video instruction from Sony for installing the drive:
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At the end of 2021, Taiwanese brand A-Data announced a major update to its SSD range. In addition to the original gaming lines XPG Gammix and XPG Spectrix, universal drives of the Legend series were released with good speed performance and a minimalistic design. And if younger Legends are somewhere in the middle between the initial and middle class, then the advanced A-Data LEGEND 840 will equally well come in handy as a boot disk, and to expand the memory of a workstation, and as an additional drive for a game console.
A-Data LEGEND 840 is a familiar M.2 2280 format drive that uses 4 lanes of PCIe Gen4 interface and complies with NVMe 1.4 specifications. The maximum read and write speeds of the drive are 5000 and 4750 Mb / s, read IOPS reaches 650 thousand, and there is a full-fledged SLC cache on board to reduce drawdowns when transferring large amounts of data. In general, it does not look like a record, but it was just enough to pass Sony's rigorous selection and receive the official status of "Ready to work with PlayStation 5". But the price is nowhere lower - a 1 TB model with due luck can be bought for $ 150 - 160, which makes it one of the most affordable SSD paired with PS5.
In general, the price is the main advantage of the LEGEND 840 drive. Because in real use cases it is still inferior to proven drives from Samsung, Kingston and Gigabyte. Despite the declared SLC cache and 8-channel controller, A-Data decided to save on matches and instead of proven products from Phison or SM, they trusted a newcomer - the Chinese manufacturer Innogrit. And this led to the fact that for some users with motherboards two / three years ago, it is simply not detected by the system. Therefore, before buying, we recommend that you look at the official page of your motherboard and make sure that everything fits. Well, it is not entirely clear how it will behave over time.
In the past couple of years, the Taiwanese brand Gigabyte has been actively promoting its AORUS line of products for gamers and enthusiasts. Moreover, it does it quite skillfully, combining a competent pricing policy and innovations. For example, the hero of this review with an unpronounceable name GP-ASM2NE6500GTTD was almost the first solid state drive in domestic retail that worked on the fourth generation PCI-E bus. Since then, several more drives have been released in the series, but this particular option remains one of the most attractive in terms of price, quality and characteristics.
The drive is based on Toshiba's 96-layer 3D NAND TLC flash memory, which is controlled by a dual-core Phison E16 controller capable of simultaneously processing up to 8 data streams. Complementing the picture is a 2 GB DDR4 cache buffer. The Gigabyte AORUS has a sequential read speed limit of 5000MB/s and a sequential write speed of 4400MB/s. By the standards of 2022, these characteristics are no longer as impressive as they were 2 years ago, but in reality, AORUS is still a lightning-fast drive that is ready to serve faithfully in a gaming laptop, even in a brand new PS5. For example, when copying from an SSD to the internal memory of a 60+ GB gaming distribution console, it took him 2.33 minutes. Slightly more expensive Samsung 980 PRO and WD Black SN850 managed exactly the same time.
At the same time, both competitors cannot boast of having a radiator. But Gigabyte has one of the coolest heat spreaders in our memory. Gigabyte decided to abandon the traditional aluminium heatsink and used a "colder" copper, thanks to which the memory controller never crossed the border at 69 ° C in stress tests, and the drive itself was in order and did not throttle. At the same time, the copper radiator imitates gilding and looks, as they say, rich. In an open stand with address lighting, this is generally excellent. To be honest, it's not entirely clear why someone should overpay almost one and a half times for the new AORUS 7000s.
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As soon as Sony gave the go-ahead to installing external SSDs in the PS5 console in the fall of 2021, Samsung immediately jumped in and announced an update to its Evo line - in particular, special versions of the Evo 980 PRO drive with a heatsink. Indeed, it would be strange if the company's flagship drives, which until recently were a beacon for the industry, would be left out of such a promising market.
Otherwise, this is the same well-known M.2 SSD of the 2280 form factor with one-sided mounting of components on a printed circuit board. Its SSD 980 PRO performance is optimized using Samsung's proprietary Elpis controller, designed with the new PCI-U 4.0 bus in mind. The use of Elpis in combination with TLC's select 128-layer 3D V-NAND flash memory has achieved impressive linear read speeds up to 7000 MB/s. At the same time, the linear recording speed reaches 5000MB/s. Add in benchmark IOPS (1000k writes + 800k writes), 1GB of buffer memory, a five-year warranty, and you have one of the most advanced SSDs on the market.
Some reviewers berated the 980 PRO for not being innovative enough. Say, before it was hoo, but now like everyone else. From our point of view, this is a plus. For comparison, the fastest model from the EVO series, running on the PCI-E 3.0 bus in synthetic tests, physically could not give out more than 3500 MB / s, and in reality it worked clearly slower. The 980 PRO has essentially been upgraded with little bloodshed, which is why for once it can be called affordable. For a 1 TB version of the 980 PRO with a heatsink, they are now asking for about $250, which is a little more expensive than conventional A-Data drives and significantly cheaper than the critically acclaimed Seagate FireCuda 530 drive.
Realizing that support for the PCI-E 4.0 bus and speeds under 7000 Mb / s will not surprise anyone today, Corsair gave vent to feelings, remembered the old days and launched a line of extravagant drives for gamers and Corsair MP enthusiasts. Among them, I especially remember the record-breaking fast and cold MP600 PRO XT with a thick wave-shaped heatsink and MP600 PRO XT Hydro, which became one of the first SSDs in the world with its own liquid cooling system. The MP600 PRO in question cannot boast of such exoticism - it's just a very fast and reliable SSD, which is ready to be plugged out of the box into a free slot of the PS5 console.
According to the behests of Sony MP600 PRO belongs to the M.2 SSD form factor and supports the fourth generation high-speed PCI-E bus. It is based on high-density 3D TLC NAND flash memory, has a dynamic cache and is controlled by the new Phison E18 controller, which was designed with new realities in mind. The drive delivers sequential read speeds up to 7000MB/s and write speeds up to 6800MB/s. For comparison, Samsung EVO Pro, which until recently was considered the benchmark in the world of drives, can provide a sequential read speed of 7000 MB / s, while writing is limited to 5500 MB / s.
And this is by no means a stone in the garden of Samsung, but rather a statement of the fact that the situation on the solid-state market has almost leveled off and in the near future the decisive factor when buying will be price, reliability and some additional goodies. With the latter, the Corsair MP600 PRO is in perfect order - the TBW of the drive is 700 TB (5-year warranty), the radiator cools the memory controller perfectly (the temperature does not exceed 70 ° C), and the drive itself is mounted as easy as shelling pears even without a screwdriver, and the plump ribbed heatsink can be easily removed , so even inexperienced users can handle the installation. In addition, with the replacement of the drive, the side panels of the PS5 can also be updated, which have recently been available to order from the official Sony store.
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At the end of 2021, one of the leading players in the memory market, the American company Kingston, has updated its solid state drive lineup by introducing 2 completely new lines of SSD drives. The KC3000 models are designed for workstation owners and are designed for heavy tasks like 3D rendering, while the FURY Renegade SSDs are designed with gamers and next-generation games in mind with hi-res textures and seamless open worlds. It is about Renegade that we will talk about.
Thanks to the use of the new PCI-E 4.0 interface and the Phison E18 controller specially designed for it, the drive from Kingston makes the most of the technical capabilities provided. It provides data exchange at speeds up to 7300 MB / s for linear read operations and up to 6000 MB / s for writes. It is also capable of performing up to 1,000,000 input/output operations per second (IOPS). Without too much modesty, this is one of the fastest solid-state drives in our memory. For example, the test Fury Renegade loaded the first level in the famously slow Shadow of the Tomb Raider in 9.6 seconds. For comparison, the reference Samsung Evo 980 Pro took 12.4 seconds, while the average NVMe typically takes 20 to 25 seconds to load.
Fury Renegade's signature feature is the not-so-typical graphene-aluminium heat spreader, which made the SSD thin and low. It is worth noting that in stress tests it worked 3.5 out of 5, because. over time, the memory controller heated up to 85 ° C, which is not good. However, in everyday use in game mode, this problem was not observed. And this is in the limited and not the coldest space of a gaming laptop. We are sure that Fury Renegade coped with the new generation consoles PS5 and Xbox Series X without any problems. If not, you can always buy an external radiator. It also has one of the largest overwriting resources among models in this class - 1000 TB versus a typical 700 GB.
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