Would love to hear your thoughts before pulling the trigger on this 😅

    Posted by Toba94

    19 Comments

    1. Not going to lie, but that heat sink looks huge and probably won’t fit in the m.2 bay of the PS5. It may fit if the cover isn’t installed but even that might be a stretch.

    2. That heat sink will almost certainly not fit. It’s been a while since I installed the expansion drive in a PS5, but I believe there was very little clearance above the expansion slot.

    3. Heatsink is too big; buy it but remove the heatsink, by a thinner heatsink off of Amazon for like 10$ and you’re good to go.

    4. Yes, Honestly this might be compatible with the ps6 because that will have a gen 5 drive too. So try to keep it if you sell your ps5

    5. 100 bucks a terabyte is unfortunately better than market price by a fair margin right now for TLC nand. Doubtful you need a gen 5 TLC drive for a PS5 but it’s solid and will definitely work.

      Look into the actual dimensions of the heatsink. A lot of times they look much bigger on the box than in reality.

    6. Supposedly runs kinda hot, so I’d keep an eye on that SSD and get the largest heatsink that still fits in the PS5 slot.

    7. You can get the heatsink off and put a new, smaller one btw. Its probably just a couple screws, if that.

    8. FantasticPage3598 on

      Gen5 works no problem on ps5, just it will run same speed as a gen4 ssd

      As others said though, heatsink is too big on this model

    9. Best thing to do is buy an ssd without a heatsink and buy a sink separately. For some reason they charge way more with one already on but if you diy it saves a ton of money

    10. ArchusKanzaki on

      Price-wise, yes. Real good in this economy.

      Problem is, it won’t fit. And Crucial’s heat sink is fairly difficult to take out.

      But on the other hand, this will definitely work with your PS5 if you want to force it.

    11. __TyroneShoelaces__ on

      I still have my og model. With an m.2 in it…

      That is not close to fitting.