This storage drive, famously used by the console's architect Mark Cerny, far excels the humble 5,500 MB/s read requirements from Sony and utilizes a thick heatsink so that thermal throttling doesn't impact your gaming performance. The WD Black SN850 is easily up there as a top pick for the best SSD for PS5. It also happens to run toasty, so be sure to get the version with the PS5 compatible heatsink for the best experience. It's the current asking rates that keep the company's latest drive from reaching the top spot in our roundup but we're sure that will change in the coming months. You can currently expect to pay around $169.99 / £155 / AU$265 for the 1TB version and $289.99 / £283.99 / AU$439 for the larger 2TB variant. Keep in mind that the Samsung 990 Pro is a little pricier than some other SSDs for PS5 in our roundup at the moment.

Loading times and file transfer times are equally impressive as around 10GB of data made the jump to this NVMe SSD in less than four seconds, that's how fast we're talking here.

That's a considerable improvement on the brand's previous flagship of around 50% give or take. In our testing, we found that the Samsung 990 Pro was able to achieve read and write speeds of 7,465.49MB/s of 6,887.68MB/s respectively in our industry standard tests. The Samsung 990 Pro is an absolutely stellar M.2 SSD for both professional users and gamers alike Samsung 990 Pro review Available in either 1TB or 2TB configurations, this high-speed and high-end drive is seriously impressive across the board when compared to the competition. If I right click on the BLack box it has the option of 'New Simple Volume', Properties.The Samsung 990 Pro maxes out what's possible with NVMe Gen 4.0 technology in a way that few other SSDs for PS5 can say. If I click the New Volume F 419.18 GB NTFS bit I get these options:. If I right click on 'Disk 3 Basic 465.76 GB Online, I have options to 'Convert to Dynamic Disk' or 'Properties'. Which bit do I click on and what option do I choose to make it one single basic volume?

and the box has a Black bar across the top and diagonal lines though it. To the right of it is a smaller box with 45.85GB Unallocated. Ok, so I'm in Disk Manager and I can see the disk, it has 'New Volume' (F) 419.18 GB NTFS Healthy (Primary Partition) in a box with a blue bar above it. If it was uses as a system (boot) drive, there may be a few partitions on it so it's best to go to Disk Manager to check and remove all the partitions so the volume is a single, basic volume. Yes the easiest way is to right click and do quick format.

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