This PS5 Upgrade Is Ridiculous 

I love how quickly the prices of m.2’s are falling. You can now get a 2TB that’s much cheaper and faster than even the 1TB series x expansion card. Microsoft really dropped the ball on proprietary storage

I had to check the date on the video when I saw that thumbnail 😂

I remember paying almost $500 for a 2tb firecuda 2 years ago 😭 Last year I upgraded to a 4tb drive for like $375.. I have like 20 games installed between the console storage and the drive and still have a lot of free space. Great to see the prices going down on these.

Ive been holding out on a 2TB because I know I would need the storage. Knowing there is a 4TB option is a gamechanger

Might be cool to do a clear side panel to show off that heatsink

That heat sink looks sick

I have that heatsink, it's a beast. It fixes both problems, the small pocket of hot air the stock plate creates and dissipates the heat

I got a 1TB $63 Crucial M.2 NVME for the PS5 that is PS5 compatible right out of the box. 5560MB/s was nice to see showing up on the PS5, so it meets / exceeds the minimum recommended spec. The $63 drive even came with a heatsink pre-applied to it. You can get one for $53 without a heatsink on it, but I opted to just go for the all-in-one solution that had everything ready to go. Could have saved like $2 going with an aftermarket one, but was glad to pay a bit more and just pop it in and go.

One thing about the 4tb nvme is the 4gb dram cache in it that makes a very huge difference in speed between the 4tb and 1tb version of ssds.

temperature testing with and without that heatsink would be nice to see how it actually performs

This is a great heat sink, the way it utilizes airflow to keep kool is why i like it

One of the best things about ps5 is the amount of ssd's you can choose from. Too bad xbox is stuck with overpriced ssds.

I really liked this video. I'm a sucker for overkill mods XD. This seems to be right up my alley. Even so, I might just go for a 2TB, although I'm really digging that heatsink

Great video! The SN850X 4TB NVMe drive was $299 a few days ago. I paid $299 for my FireCuda 530 4TB during a Best Buy pricing errors last year, and it's been phenomenal. If you still haven't upgraded your internal, I'd recommend going with at least a 2TB drive.

Xbox needs the higher storage options and cheaper prices

I have the sabrent rocket 2tb drive with the heatsink that was the first like that with the cover being a heatsink and it works amazing has a constant 7300 write speed.

I would love to see how big of a temperature difference there is between stock and this elec heatsink

I took my 2tb 980 pro out earlier today to check and update the firmware (PSA: if you have this 2tb model from 2021 the firmware probably needs updating) and was surprised the PS5 didn’t insist on reformatting it after sticking it in my pc and updating it.

Memory storage size has gone up fast! Not too long ago when the 8MB memory cards for the GameCube was out about 20 years ago, that was a lot. Not long after with the release of the first iPhone about 15 years ago it was then GB. Now we're talking TB. That's impressive in such a short amount of time.

I put a SABRENT 4TB Rocket 4 Plus NVMe 4.0 Gen4 PCIe M.2 Extreme Performance SSD and heatsink in my Ps5 when they 1st unlocked the NVMe slot and I don't regret it at all. I had 6TB in my ps4 and filled it over the course of its life, and I expect the same will probably happen this generation.

Its crazy how fast the prices on nvme drives are dropping. A little over a year ago I bought a 1tb drive for around 120 dollars. Now I can get them for as low as 55 dollars. Thats insane

Yea I received the 1TB 850x for Christmas and already filled it. It’s best to just get a 2-4 Tb for future proof and live service games. Worth the price when you are ready or wait until the end of the year sales

I picked up a 4 TB Seagate Firecuda back in July and moved all of my PS4 (a lot!) plus my PS5 games to the drive and it’s just barely over half-full. So far, so good…games run just as good as the internal drive. The heat sink you installed is really nice!

Pretty cool video on something we all need now a days

I ended up getting a WD 2 TB drive last year for about $260 and I've been happy with it. I heard the speeds were faster with 2 TB and up so that's why I opted for that over the 1 TB

Looks pretty awesome actually. I kept the panel off after i installed my m.2 and heatsink, basically the same concept except your heatsink is nice and fitted

I love that this randomly popped up on my RU-vid to watch! Thanks!!

I got a 2Tb last week and barely got 1Tb in it While on PS4 I almost got through the entire generation with 500gb so I will be good with this

I've been running the elecgear and the firecuda 4tb for about 1.5yrs now. It's been awesome Nas tested all the major heatsinks. Elecgear was king followed by the sabrent heatsink.

Waiting for your review on the longevity-comparison test of all these drives that you have tested and played on so far

Recently bought 3 2TB drives. One for Steamdeck, one for PS5 and one to replace my old and failing 2TB mechanical drive external backup drive along with a USB4 enclosure. That’s my storage needs taken care of for a few years or more. Couldn’t have done it without the price drops.

I upgraded to a 4TB WD NVME a few months ago when Best buy had them on sale for Cyber Monday. I haven't filled it up yet, but I anticipate filling it up before the end of the year. That NVME has been a game changer for me. It is much easier to re-visit some of my older PS5 games now without having to either move them from a USB drive to internal storage or re-download them.

honestly the extra peace of mind with the giant heatsink is worth it

I have a question.. if You have a full 1tb, do you have to transfer your data from the 1tb onto a hdd before you format the 4tb?

I got my PS5 about 6 months ago at MSRP, which due to a series of very fortunate events left me enough to immediately get a 4tb storage expansion for about $3xx with a built in heatsink.

My Gammix S70 Blade 2TB gave me just shy of 6,500 so I was very surprised with that lower speed. Only thing I did was use a different heat sink because I didn’t trust that little piece of aluminum. No issues at all and I grabbed it last year for under $175 from Amazon.

Just bought a 4TB WD 850X for $300. Prices are just crazy right now. I used the Sabrent PS5 heat sink. Works great for $17 and doesn't block airflow for the PS5 the way that big one in the video does.

very nice and simple video on how-to and what to expect from this product(s). I can't wait to personally upgrade mine

Just picked up a 4TB SSD and I'm in need of a heatsink. This video is incredibly helpful.

I too saw that heat sink on Amazon and was intrigued.

I filled my 1 TB ssd up in no time. Was thinking of getting a 2 TB. But seeing this i will wait for the 4TB to drop in price substantially

The WD SN770 1TB NVME is $59.99 at Walmart as I’m commenting this. Judging from reviews I’ve watched, it’s a nice SSD to put in the PS5 so I’ll be using it for mine as soon as it gets delivered here.

I used the Sabrent PS5 Heatsink when I installed a 2TB 980 Pro into my PS5. It's been working fine for 1.5 years. 🤞

That jump scare at 4:50 really freaked me out. 😆

"Puts thermal pad on top of sticker" (wonders why it's gonna overheat in 5 months)

Great video, but would’ve like to see a temperature testing on the heatsink

I have this, my Firecuda 520 ssd was for some reason running very hot & when I purchased this heatsink in 2021 I have had no issues with heat anymore luckily

pro-tip from a long time pc builder: take the sticker off your nvme drive so your chips are actually being cooled by your heatsink. There will be some cooling either way but youre insulating the chips from cooling by leaving the sticker on. some companies have their sticker made out of a heat conductive material but a lot, especially smaller no name companies, its just a regular ol sticker. nvme drives can get very hot and there is never an "overkill" when youre protecting your hardware from throttling or especially protecting it from death. consoles dont have the same tools us pc users have and you cant actively monitor your hardware temps and stop what youre doing if theres a problem and the temps spike to dangerous levels. so especially on console you might as well give your hardware the best chance it has at a long fast life. I always peel the stickers off the PCB and stick it to the plastic in the ssd box incase i ever need to reinstall it on the drive (i never have but im always paranoid about throwing things away)

Good thing for people to know before doing this: the screws for the m2 are usually stripped. So use electrical tape. You need to make a little buffer out of electrical tape to keep a gap between the m2 and the console, then tape it in place so it doesnt move around disconnect.

Been rockin the 4TB sabrent one for awhile now, still working great.

That heatsink block is ingenious!

I'm mulling a 4TB drive for my PS5. Considering how big games are I think its worth it

If your wondering which to get the 1tb or 2tb SSD, get the 2tb. I have already completely filled my 1tb extended storage SSD, it fills up extremely fast even if you just have PS4 physical games loaded on it like Last of Us 2 and Assasins Creed Odyssey. PS5 games are way bigger than last gen titles to on average so expect your gonna need more storage if you have a large library of games like i do, and i play almost exclusively physical copies of the game. If you like you games to be mostly digital you are gonna want the 2tb SSD

that heatsink looks cool as hell

Please share more on this I just got my ps5, an I couldn't download all of my games no space, I really really really need to go bye everything you just shared in this video, thanks for sharing this

I'm curious how Sony plans to implement these SSDs into the upcoming PS5 Slim revision. They will probably have to make some changes like the location of the drive in the system. It really depends on what the design of the Slim is and what it's going to look like.

With how much prices for storage are dropping, I feel like I'd rather just wait a while for the price for 4TB to drop further.

4tb gen 4 PICe SSD on Amazon right now for 209. Absolutely insane how prices have fallen compared to what it was just a year ago

That heatsink looked awesome.

That's some shady lookin NVME you bought 😅

I tried one of those Elecgear heat sinks when they first launched and the block was too thick and put a permanent bend in my NVME. Had to swap it out for the Sabrent model which fits perfectly.

Good stuff, this combo will be very popular.

I have a 2 TB SN850 (it was about 250$ at some black friday Amazon sale) and _the_ Sabrent heatsink. It's currently almost full, but only because I kept installing games and haven't really deleted unused ones. 2 TB is plenty for me, mainly also because I've been playing mostly on my Deck for the past year.

That's the thing with XBOX, it is really easy to install but man those expansion cards are expensive! Happy i have a 2TB on my PS5. But for my Series X, i'm still waiting for prices to drop. I hope this year we will get some good deals on it. I'm constantly running out of space. Which is really annoying. And yes, i know you can connect an external HDD/SSD on the Series X but you can't play your Series X (next gen) games on that.

The heatsink is a bit of an interesting thing. Having the heat pipe just cover the length of the drive doesn't make a ton of sense to me. Then it's just evenly spreading that heat over the drive, but the pipe doesn't reach up to the fin stack to dissipate that heat. I don't think it's going to be anywhere near as effective as, say a CPU cooler; but then again, SSD's don't need a massive amount of cooling to begin with.

Holy damn that big heatsink 😮

I went with a 4TB Samsung one, and it's been working great. Still lot's of room to continue collecting new games and forget about ever having to deal with the hassle of re downloading anything... 🤙

Not gonna lie. That heat shield looks cool. I love the idea of replacing some parts with better ones.

Looks like a nice heat sink, but I believe the air goes under the cover for the expandable storage area. That’s why there’s a spacer under the memory card that just looks like a little Bebe. And you just completely block the airflow. There’s very little airflow directly under the plastic cover, and it is not guided.

NasCompares did I really great breakdown on like every heatsink and temps as well under load

I like having all my games installed and ready to go, I have a 5tb external for my PS4 library but need something like this for my growing PS5 collection. Any cross gen or indie/style games I’ll keep on PS4 / switch so precious SSD space is for games that take more advantage of the PS5 hardware.

Just a note, nand flash works best when it's not being cooled, it's the controller that needs the cooling. What I've done with my NVMe drives is cut the thermal pad to ensure it only contacts the controller and removed the rest

Ive been using the ElecGear heatsink in my PS5 for over a 1.5 years now. It made a measurable difference in performance and internal heat with testing. I bought a 2nd one shortly after for when I get a 2nd PS5.

Could you use an old 2 tb ssd as an external drive now with a casing on ps5. Got a firecuda 530 now and would like not to waste the old drive.

I just bought a 4TB Firecuda last week. Man my PS5 is now my most expensive console (have VR2 too) but it’s amazing.

I use an affordable 5tb external HDD to store all my games that I’m not currently playing. Your upgrade is cool, but I’m too much of a cheapskate to do the same. 😆

NVMe's don't really need heatsinks at all, they only heat up when being stress tested or benchmarked but nearly all the time when gaming your just loading lots of little files in quick bursts... you will never end up in a situation where "My NVMe is overheating while playing CoD, it's slowing my game down."

I fitted a 4tb with the same heat sink a month or so back really pleased with it have put all my ps5 games on it and a lot from psn

is the heat sink alone still a benefit for the system, even with not putting any extra storage?

Thanks for sharing. You are a big positive influence on the gaming community.

Xbox is so bad with its prioritory ssd

Upgrading memory is nice, but what I really want to see is you pimp the outside. Make it look cool. With baseball starting, how about a Phillies motif?

Do you recommend I get the heatsink for the 2TB thanks

A content creator like yourself should already have this by now. No excuses. This thing is on sale at Amazon by another brand. Also, if you get the 8tb hard drive added you can make that a PS4 save data as well. It will be like having 2 systems in one like I have.

This is why Xbox series x is gonna be a problem.

I just watched another vid where they were installing a smaller heatsink and then when they installed the metal cover which is just gonna make it hold in the heat, i thought why put the cover back on? Why not just make the heat sink bigger and fully exposed and then this video popped up!😂

in the PS5 update the PS5 can now support 8TB of storage, i don't see any existing ssd drive like that but if it does that would be very expensive

Storage space is a damn scam, they can afford more storage space, when 3 games you release will fill up your consoles it's bs.

I'll need the 4tb drive when the jailbreak scene for the ps5 comes around and I can move my entire PS library (1-5) to that storage drive.

I love the look of that heat sink.

how has gaming and system performance been since the install? does the heat sink improve allow the system to breathe more or does it not make much of a difference?

Xbox Fan here, and I LOVE how Sony did this.....for $400 on X/S you only get 2TB, for $250 you can get 4TB on PS5....double the storage for almost half the price. MS has to get a handle on their expansion card for the X/S, they have to cut the prices in by at least 30% to make sense at all. I spent $200 on a 1TB for my Series S, while only spending $130 for a 2TB drive from my PS5....yeah, it was easier to upgrade the Series S, but NOT DOUBLE the price easier...Storage is really the only place Sony has over the XBOX Series systems.....everything else is kind of a wash, or the XBOX is better....like I got my Series S for $200, and getting a 1TB drive for it cost me as much as buying the system. Yeah, I like GamePass and it has a lot of games, but whats the point of having all those games available, if theirs no space to install them?

That heatsink looks awesome lol * gets covered up * 😢

Since this is a double-sided SSD, how is the heat properly dissipated on the bottom (all 2TB variants had the memory modules on the top only)?

I’m still trying to find a 2tb m.2. I would love a 4tb one, but if a regular 4tb ssd is very expensive, i know I’m not gonna wanna pay that much lmao. 1tb isn’t enough imo, but I’ll be able to work with 2tb

I recently picked up the WD SN850 2TB on sale with a ps5 bundle.. it's hitting a read speed at 6640mb/s, runs great.. my question tho, as I'm sure you know it comes with its own heatsink already attached, is it worth getting the Elecgear plate as well, and if so, will it fit over the 850? Thx for the review

Lol this EXACTLY THE REASON Why I got me a 4tb firecuda from the get go 1tb, 2tb within months you'll start running out space so you end up spending more

Got the 2TB option and it was the most useful upgrade I ever did for my console

Those heatsinks get really hot, so no that is not overkill. I got one of those nvme cloning USB chambers, so if you touch the heatsink on that, it will feel really hot and could burn you, so using a heatsink like that should really help.

I bought a 4TB firecuda 530 with a heatsink when I first bought the PS5. Haven't gotten a problem with it but I knew the games were going to keep demanding larger file sizes. Just hoping the series X can make a larger storage than the 2TB card. I'm running out of space 😅.