If you’re buying a PS5 Pro, you can put a standard PC Nvme SSD drive in it, just like in the original PS5 versions. The insertion system has not changed here, and with it neither the requirements for the disk or the size of the slot. Everything remains the same, so if you want to expand the already sufficient 2TB internal SSD in the PS5 Pro, just buy a PCIe 4.0 compatible NVMe drive.
Whether branded or unbranded. We tried the disc from WD_Black, which already has two versions of discs for the PS5. One version is from the original WD_Black SN850, which they also deliver in the PlayStation package. It doesn’t lack a cooler, and even in the PS5 version they left the RGB backlight, even if you can’t see it. In the meantime, they also released SN850P straight with branding on the surface and no RGB. Both come in 1TB to 4TB sizes, but the 850P version already has an 8TB version if you need more space.
The specific specifications of the SN850 drive are 7000 MB/s read, 5300 MB/s write (1000K 4KB IOPS – 720K 4KB IOPS). That’s more than enough for the PS5, which has a standard read of 5500MB/s. In contrast, the SN850P is a slightly taller PlayStation-branded SN850X version of the disc that goes 7300MB/s reading and 6300MB/s writing.
Whether you give one or the other, the result will not change significantly. Both discs have a heatsink that dampens the slowdown during heating, and despite the change in speed, don’t expect major differences. Likewise, the PS5 Pro does not have noticeable differences in the disk compared to the PS5.
As for the PS5 Pro console itself. It has an SSD slot hidden under the upper part of the right cover, which when you take it down you can see the metal cover. When you unscrew it, you will see the slot itself, into which you insert the disk and fasten it with a small screw. While the console supports four disk sizes.
As for the disk heating, the system calculates 45 degrees in idle mode, around 50 degrees during normal use. In a benchmark with a lot of writes, it goes to about 64 degrees, but during a long copy to disk it reaches 74 degrees. With large files, you will also experience a slowdown in copying, but since you will be copying only minimally, this is not a problem. In normal use, they just read the game from the disc and everything will be fast there.
The speed of the discs in the PS5 Pro console is the same as that of the PS5, and the speed of copying 50GB of data is about 30 seconds from the internal disk to nvme, copying back was in 4 minutes. But all this is limited by the speed of the internal disk in the console. The loading speeds of the games are very similar both on the internal and on the external disk, the differences are within one second.
What will be important with the addition of an SSD is that you will have more disk space and, together with the internal 2TB, you will no longer have to limit yourself in downloads and you will be able to have dozens of games on the disk.
Source: www.sector.sk
