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upgrading the PS5 looks messy strong

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disagree here Microsoft's approach for now limits consumer Choice costs more

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sacrifices performance and okay yeah it is a lot easier it

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really does take like 2 seconds but I

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think that assuming that it needs to be that simple is not giving Gamers enough

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credit and that's something Sony did well sure they're documentation could

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probably be better but the actual process of upgrading the storage of the

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PlayStation 5 is not that overwhelming once you're familiar with a few simple

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principles and once we've walked you through it you will be ready to upgrade

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the SSD whether it's your game console PC car

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whatever the first key ad advantage of Sony's PS5 storage system is also its

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greatest weakness Choice thanks to its

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industry standard m.2 22110 slot the PS5

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can physically accept most ssds on the

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market everything from the most mundane consumer drive to Exotic data center

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drives with opan memory on them at least

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physically in a very pc-like turn of

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events Sony's compatibility messaging has gotten somewhat complicated and the

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thing is while any of these drives might fit you can't just go to new egg or

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Amazon punch in m.2 SSD order the

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cheapest thing and expect it to work only drives rated for a sustained read

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speed of 5500 megabytes per second or

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greater are officially supported so that immediately disqualifies any SATA m.2

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drives as well as PCI Express gen 3

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drives since PC C Express Gen 4 is required to hit speeds anywhere from

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3500 megab per second all the way up to 7,000 megabytes per second single and

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double-sided drives are both supported though and all of this is great news for

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Consumer choice because in the long term competition will put pressure on SSD

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makers to provide solutions that will meet the ps5s performance standards at a

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fair price now Microsoft has had the upper hand thus far Sony is only just

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now Bing this upgrade program well

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Microsoft's co-branded Seagate storage expansion card has been available pretty

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much since day one for Xbox with big game libraries but the ball is now in

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Sony's Court cuz $220 is already today stupidly high for

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a wimpy two-lane NVMe SSD when I can get

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a top-of-the-line Samsung 980 Pro for

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$20 less and the situation is only going to keep getting worse if nothing puts

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pressure on Seagate although to Microsoft's credit their boot storage so

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the drive installed inside the Xbox is in the form of an m.2 SSD that can be

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easily replaced if for whatever reason it needed to be serviced Sony on the

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other hand well their internal storage is soldered so if it dies you're so

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unless you want to completely replace the main board and additionally you

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can't quite put in just anything you want your SSD has to be between 250 gigs

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and 4 terab but the thing is even if I'm

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not allowed to put my whopping ,000 8

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terabyte SSD today theoretically nothing

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would prevent me from installing it in the future as more options become

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available so overall Sony's approach is

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a huge win for Consumer choice and don't

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believe anyone who tells you that it's too hard or too scary it's actually

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really easy all you'll need is your SSD of choice a number one Philip

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screwdriver and of course your PlayStation 5 start by laying it down on

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its side lifting this corner here and

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sliding towards the base where it stands wh it actually comes off that

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easily simply loosen this screw right

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here try not to lose

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it loosen this second screw then you see

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this little ring right here regrettably that's not magnetic

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you want to put this on the little hole that corresponds to the length of your

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SSD in our case this is a 2280 SSD that

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means it's 22 mm wide and 80 mm long so

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we're going to put this into the 80

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there we go then we just take our SSD

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and Slot it in at the back a little something like this so you can go in at

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an angle till it clicks then push it down then we screw in that second screw

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put the heat shield back in

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place reattach the first

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screw and put the side panel back

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on it really is that easy and it only

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takes that long other than that for now you have to apply for the beta program

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in order to participate should be fine I'm beta

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as if your drive has a large cooler that prevents it from fitting in the

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PlayStation 5's SSD Bay you can remove it but you should check with your

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manufacturer to ensure that it will still be able to operate safely you know

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random thought what would prevent you from just installing the SSD with its

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big chungus heat sink on it and leaving this Shield off anyway Let's uh let's

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fire it up with our Beta key redeemed we restarted the PS5 opened up the system

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menu and changed the settings to Beta

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software now like with any beta program Sony warns us that may be incomplete or

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contain bugs and they are not responsible for any lost data or damaged

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Hardware then we fire the thing up and this is it you don't even make it to the

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home screen you will immediately have to choose hey do you want to format this

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m.2 SSD or do you want to not format and turn the machine off obviously I want to

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format it now this is interesting data screenshots and video clips cannot be

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saved to m.2 storage so if you were thinking wow I don't actually want to

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install that many games but I want to save a ton of gameplay video clips and

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just use the m.2 for that you cannot

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let's see how long this takes it shouldn't take very long pretty toasty

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storage fire Cuda oh yeah that wow that

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was really fast I was just going to peek at this cuz seate told us it was

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specifically made with the PlayStation 5 in mind but I don't see any PlayStation

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branding anywhere on it which kind of makes sense and we'll talk about that a

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little bit more later 6500 megabytes a second console storeage

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installation location PS5 games and apps m.2 storage just like that let's install

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a game shall we obviously we want the PS5 version this will take a minute well

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um this is it I've thought maybe it would show me where it's installed but

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no it's completely transparent well if there was any doubt that we can move

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around seamlessly in a large open world

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environment we can put that to rest haven't seen a single stutter no

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discernable pop in or anything like that

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there's enough Distortion from the like

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uh film grain the kind of lens

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Distortion that they do around the edges of the frame and stuff like that that you'd be able to mask a lot of it wow

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that is very cool and very deta oh

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they're all the same this is such an unintuitive

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selector prioritize image quality or prioritize

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resolution choose whether to prioritize visual quality or frame rate that's not

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what resolution means I think resolution

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means frame rate but I mean a game like

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this they're going to be loading the whole map anyway so I wouldn't expect

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there to be any difference but as expected it works

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fine oh no that's what happens when I

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don't have other cars to help me oh they all passed me I think there's

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a lot of assists on right now this is like the tutorial all right so

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everything is totally Perfect come on third

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page yes of course all of this is as we

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expected why would Sony roll out this beta if they didn't have a pretty good

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idea that it was going to perform as it should but what happens if you do not

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follow Sony's instructions to find out

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we have prepared a couple of other ssds to try including this one right here

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which violates a couple of Sony's guidelines this is an 8 TB SSD and it is

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PCI Express gen 3 rather than PCI

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Express Gen 4 I love how fast this swap

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is man there you go I could speed swap

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ssds on the PlayStation 5 all

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day here we go ladies and gentlemen do

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they actually lock it out or do they

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just kind of not guarantee that it'll work oh straight up no now I have a

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feeling that this capacity restriction is just because there aren't any 8 tbte

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PCI Express Gen 4 drives right now and that they would actually lift that once

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there is a Gen 4 8 TB drive but there

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you go it's a simple as that it checks if you're a gen 3 drive and says no cuz

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it knows it's not going to be fast enough that's fine cuz I have a new idea

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let's go ahead and try a PCI Express Gen 4 drive but an older one that might not

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meet Sony's speed

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recommendations this partic this particular drive right here is rated by

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Corsair at I think 4 and2 gabyt per second right and 5 GB per second reads

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it's one of the first gen 4 drives it's a little confusing because I think they

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still have an mp600 in their product lineup but now it's like core or Pro or

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something like that whatever we have the OG one very curious to see how it treats

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that okay at least it gives me the option to format this one though it

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really is kind of a bummer that Sony doesn't just give me the option to throw

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a gen 3 drive in and you know store my

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video clips on it but they don't let you store video clips at all I guess the

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intention is look this is a game drive

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that that's how we've architected it and like all right fair enough okay if you

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experience problems while playing a game install the m.2 storage try installing

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it in console storage so even though we

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are really close to the speed of a good

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gen 3 drive it's at least allowing me

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given that it is a Gen 4 drive to install to this one huh I'm surprised I

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would have thought the purpose of running that Benchmark would be to Det

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determine if there's enough performance

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it's also quite possible that Sony is trying to ensure that they're specking

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the requirements for the future not just

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today I mean they've got clearly a big plan with respect to how they want to

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leverage the PlayStation 5 storage architecture to enable different gaming

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experiences the fact that we can't see the problem in a first generation game

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that doesn't necessarily mean that there's a problem so the bottom line then is I'm

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absolutely stoked Open Standards like m.2 and competition are better for

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consumers but that doesn't mean that Sony's approach here was perfect for

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example Sony specifically says that not all games are necessarily playable from

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the addin SSD even if you meet the recommended minimum speed of 5,500

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megabytes per second it should be noted that the PlayStation 5's internal

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storage can reach 5.5 GB pers second raw or 8 to 9 GB per second compressed so

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the question then is how do we make this easier for consumers what I would like

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to say is that SSD makers should just

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internally validate their drives for the PlayStation 5 but I think we know how

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that would turn out what should exist is some kind of industrywide preferably

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third-party certification for ssds like we have with SD cards where there's some

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agreed upon performance metric that a drive should have to hit in order to get

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a certain designation Class A Class B

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Etc but failing that cuz it's never

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going to happen Sony should have just certified some drives I mean Mark Cy did

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post what drive he bought so I guess that's as close as it gets but the good

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thing about a lack of certification is that it keeps the cost down and in the

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long term almost any commodity drive off the shelf realistically will manage the

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speed Sony's requiring but that's the future and that doesn't help Gamers

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today and even though the requirements

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have been laid out for us it says 5.5 GB

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per second at least just because a drive says that on the box that that doesn't

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actually tell you anything meaningful about that drive's performance

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characteristics so either Sony is admitting that it doesn't really need to

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do 5.5 GB per second and we saw that today at least that does appear to be

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true or they're setting up their users to buy the wrong drive only to realize 8

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months down the road when they filled it up and their performance takes a nose

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dive that they have to run out and buy something else Sony even acknowledges

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that there could be performance issues when running games off of an addin drive

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and they say that some drives may be unplayable even if it meets their

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specifications so at the end of the day at least today it looks like as long as

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you go for a PCI Express Gen 4 drive you should be okay

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but because Sony hasn't taken the step to certify addin storage we're not

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exactly certain where we're going to end up in the future so my recommendation

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would be check out one of the drives that we've got down below but don't go

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all the way in in terms of capacity maybe get a one tab get what you need

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today and then upgrade in the future once there's a little bit more clarity

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