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Sandisk Announces Optimus GX PRO 850P M.2 NVMe SSD for PlayStation 5 Consoles

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Sandisk today introduced the Optimus GX PRO 850P, an M.2 NVMe Gen 4 SSD tailor-made for the Sony PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro consoles. The drive is an officially-licensed PlayStation accessory, and comes with performance and thermal optimization for the consoles. It comes in capacity variants of up to 8 TB. The drive is a variant of the Optimus GX PRO 850X that Sandisk targets at PC gamers and enthusiasts.

Given the way Sandisk is differentiating the 850P from the 850X, this new drive might have a different performance profile from its PC-targeted sibling, and perhaps even a different combination of controller and NAND flash. The company hasn't put out a detailed specs sheet, yet. We know that the 850X comes with WDC's in-house Black G2 PCIe Gen 4, 8-channel controller that uses a DRAM cache, paired with Kioxia 112-layer 3D TLC NAND flash. The company also hasn't put out pricing. For reference, the top 8 TB 850X is going for an eye-watering $2,700.

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18 Comments on Sandisk Announces Optimus GX PRO 850P M.2 NVMe SSD for PlayStation 5 Consoles

#1
LabRat 891
$2,700 for storage in a $700 game console?
Reminds me of seeing multi-thousand dollar Real Steel optics, on Airsoft (In the US)...
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#2
Wirko
LabRat 891$2,700 for storage in a $700 game console?
This tells you that $700 won't stay $700 for much longer...
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#3
Let3r
Wonder how much Xbox storage expansion cards are getting
🤣

RIP WD
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#4
Hyrel
Because the PS5 famously has so many games to require 8TB of storage
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#5
trsttte
That's so silly, why would you need to have so many games downloaded and at the ready?!
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#6
Chaitanya
LabRat 891$2,700 for storage in a $700 game console?
Reminds me of seeing multi-thousand dollar Real Steel optics, on Airsoft (In the US)...
Even when PS5 was priced at $500, 8TB SSDs used to cost north of $1000 at best of times.
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#7
Prima.Vera
Those prices are getting out of hand and ridiculous by day...
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#8
LabRat 891
ChaitanyaEven when PS5 was priced at $500, 8TB SSDs used to cost north of $1000 at best of times.
I have a Gen4x4 8TB NVMe that I snagged off NewEgg for around $400$500, right before The Panic hit.

Top-performing Gen4 8TB drives and Gen5 8TB drives were around a grand, tho (TBF).

Edit:
It was ~$500, not $400. My 4TB SN8100 I purchased about the same time, was around $400
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#9
Bwaze
ChaitanyaEven when PS5 was priced at $500, 8TB SSDs used to cost north of $1000 at best of times.
Then those weren’t the best of times. In the past 6 years since 8 TB drives are available in consumer space they were under $600 many times - in fact even the first consumer 8 TB drive, Samsung QVO SATA drive, launched well below $1000.

In any other time in the past it would be unthinkable than more than half a decade later we have no larger drives, and we can’t match that price. It’s pathetic, and people with memory spans of goldfish aren’t helping…
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#10
Wirko
LabRat 891I have a Gen4x4 8TB NVMe that I snagged off NewEgg for around $400$500, right before The Panic hit.
It's not that bad even today. Yes, I'm sure this one is legit but with some fine print attached:

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#11
Cervisia
Given the way Sandisk is differentiating the 850P from the 850X, this new drive might have a different performance profile from its PC-targeted sibling, and perhaps even a different combination of controller and NAND flash.
The drive and firmware are the same. For both the WD_Black and the renamed Optimus models, the 850X heatsink is already designed to fit into the PS5, and the only difference is that the 850P has the PS5 logo painted on top of the heatsink.
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#12
Bwaze
"The company also hasn't put out pricing. For reference, the top 8 TB 850X is going for an eye-watering $2,700."

But there are still WD drives available for a third of that price, and WD BLACK SN850P even has a PS logo, if that's required...




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#13
Dimitriman
Bwaze"The company also hasn't put out pricing. For reference, the top 8 TB 850X is going for an eye-watering $2,700."

But there are still WD drives available for a third of that price, and WD BLACK SN850P even has a PS logo, if that's required...




It's a sign of what's to come, my friend. Happy buying!
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#14
Wirko
DimitrimanIt's a sign of what's to come, my friend. Happy buying!
It also makes the old SN series look cheap. Very cheap! And expect them to run out of stock any day now, forever!
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#15
Bwaze
DimitrimanIt's a sign of what's to come, my friend. Happy buying!
Apparently the prices of storage and memory in consumer sector have "stabilized" because the demand in DIY has already collapsed at these prices. The next step we will see are withdrawals of companies from retail space (like Micron did with Crucial), dealing exclusively with larger companies for prebuilt PCs - there's no point in dealing with end customers, setting up distribution and warranties for such a small market.
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#16
Hecate91
BwazeApparently the prices of storage and memory in consumer sector have "stabilized" because the demand in DIY has already collapsed at these prices. The next step we will see are withdrawals of companies from retail space (like Micron did with Crucial), dealing exclusively with larger companies for prebuilt PCs - there's no point in dealing with end customers, setting up distribution and warranties for such a small market.
According to a Silicon Motion exec, the demand for retail SSD's is almost gone, there isn't any point for some of these companies to keep selling SSD's to the consumer market, and most sales have shifted to selling directly to OEM's instead since they can't obtain enough supply either.
I wonder which company is next after Micron, but having less competition in the storage market is terrible.
www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/the-retail-ssd-market-has-almost-disappeared-says-silicon-motion-exec-pc-oems-are-buying-third-party-drives-as-direct-nand-supply-dries-up
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#17
A&P211
ChaitanyaEven when PS5 was priced at $500, 8TB SSDs used to cost north of $1000 at best of times.
I was getting some 8tb SSDs drives for around 550-650.
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#18
trsttte
Hecate91According to a Silicon Motion exec, the demand for retail SSD's is almost gone, there isn't any point for some of these companies to keep selling SSD's to the consumer market, and most sales have shifted to selling directly to OEM's instead since they can't obtain enough supply either.
I wonder which company is next after Micron, but having less competition in the storage market is terrible.
www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/the-retail-ssd-market-has-almost-disappeared-says-silicon-motion-exec-pc-oems-are-buying-third-party-drives-as-direct-nand-supply-dries-up
I'd say that's not new or caused by AI, cloud storage providers have been doing all they can so people stop having their data locally. SSDs never got anywhere near a price where you could say "that's cheap enough, time to start retiring the spinning rust"
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