Storage galore: New PS5 replace lastly lets customers add more room for video games

A major new update to the PS5 firmware lets players upgrade the console's internal storage via an M.2 SSD.

Enlarge / A serious new replace to the PS5 firmware lets gamers improve the console’s inside storage by way of an M.2 SSD.

Gamers will be capable of add particular M.2 SSDs to the PS5 with a brand new system replace rolling out tomorrow, two months after a beta that featured the choice was made accessible to customers who signed up.

As detailed in a put up on the PlayStation Weblog, the replace provides customers the choice to extend the PS5’s general storage capability by putting in a PCIe 4.zero M.2 SSD (starting from 250GB to 4TB) that matches sure technical and dimensional necessities. As soon as the M.2 drive is put in, the brand new space for storing can be utilized to repeat, obtain, replace, and play PS4 and PS5 video games in addition to media functions. The consequence will primarily add a second, totally useful inside drive to the console.

This can be a large step up over the “cold-storage” answer that was added to the system in April, which allowed last-gen video games to run straight from a normal platter-based exterior onerous drive or SSD by way of USB—and notably stored gamers from doing the identical for PS5 video games. Consequently, the function did little greater than let gamers unencumber house for PS5 video games by storing PS4 video games on an exterior drive… or simply letting PS5 downloads acquire mud in storage, which Sony stated nonetheless allowed for sooner transfers again to inside storage than redownloading from scratch. For PS5 gamers, this did little to alleviate issues with the console’s inside 667GB of obtainable house.

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