ADATA Unveils Premier 4TB M.2 NVMe SSD for PlayStation 5

[btarunr]

ADATA today unveiled a 4 TB variant of its Premier series M.2 NVMe SSD with integrated heatsink (APSFG-4TCS). The drive takes advantage of PCIe Gen 4 x4 interface, and targets the crowd that wants storage upgrades for their Sony PlayStation 5 consoles. The drive offers sequential read speeds of up to 6300 MB/s when used with a PS5. It's slightly faster when used with a PC, with sequential transfer rates of up to 7400 MB/s sequential reads, with up to 6600 MB/s sequential writes. ADATA is backing the drive with an impressive 2960 TBW endurance rating, and with a 5-year warranty. The company didn't reveal pricing.



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[bonehead123]

Nice looking drive, but they must be giving them away for free, since they didn't list a P>R>I>C>E, again......hehehe /s

I just don't understand why this is seemingly sooooo damned hard to include this rather crucial bit of info into a PR, so the readers don't have to go googlin or looking it up at their favorite etailer site

 

[vbq7qK68eyYAH4iR]

I wonder if they'll secretly change the performance of this drive like they've done with previous SSDs, such as the SX8200 PRO.

 

[GabrielLP14]

Hmm interesting
Cool that they offer a bunch of capacities:

ADATA Premium SSD for PS5 1 TB Specs

1 TB, TLC, PCIe 4.0 x4, M.2 2280

www.techpowerup.com

ADATA Premium SSD for PS5 4 TB Specs

4 TB, TLC, PCIe 4.0 x4, M.2 2280

www.techpowerup.com

 

[kinjx11]

Lol why? for 30fps gaming?? after al the damn thing can't read/write faster than 5.9gb

 

[TumbleGeorge]

Hmm interesting
Cool that they offer a bunch of capacities:

ADATA Premium SSD for PS5 1 TB Specs

1 TB, TLC, PCIe 4.0 x4, M.2 2280

www.techpowerup.com

ADATA Premium SSD for PS5 4 TB Specs

4 TB, TLC, PCIe 4.0 x4, M.2 2280

www.techpowerup.com

This will be much more interesting
Especially if it is offered in higher capacity versions. 16TB, and why not 32TB.

 

[Lionheart]

Lol why? for 30fps gaming?? after al the damn thing can't read/write faster than 5.9gb

Why what? Current gen consoles have both Performance modes 60fps dynamic resolutions + FSR in certain games & graphics mode 30fps mode 4k-ish. So there should be an SSD that specifically operates at 5.9gb/s speeds. That just stupid like your pointless comment.

 

[GabrielLP14]

This will be much more interesting
Especially if it is offered in higher capacity versions. 16TB, and why not 32TB.

Yeah definitely but the price will be astronomical as well ahahah

This will be much more interesting
Especially if it is offered in higher capacity versions. 16TB, and why not 32TB.

16TB and 32TB in regular M.2 2280 i think will be impossible in current standards, since NAND must have a certain height limit, and also stacking 32 dies into a single package is difficult AF.
So even a 16 Package 1Tb dies QLC is rare to see, so 16x 1Tb (128GB) would be 2TB NAND Flash
So my guess is we won't be seeing it for years to come

 

[TumbleGeorge]

We already have experience with at least two stacks on top of each other. It is not known, as nothing can follow the 16TB m.2 SSD already this year, or at the beginning of the next and 32TB at the end of 2024, at the time of presentation and market launch of the AMD processors with the ZEN 5 architecture and the competing architecture from Intel (Arrow Lake).

 

[redeye]

Lol why? for 30fps gaming?? after al the damn thing can't read/write faster than 5.9gb

haha, you mean 30fps with raytracing. cyberpunk 2077 on PS5 is 30fps with RT, 60fps without …
and most ps5 version games have 60fps, at 1440p if you are going to “trash” on the PS5…
GTAV finally runs at 60fps on the PS5 (with ps5 version)

 

[Deleted member 185088]

Lol why? for 30fps gaming?? after al the damn thing can't read/write faster than 5.9gb

Well even the 4090 can't do 4k60 in Cyberpunk.
The difference is PC gaming is ruined by greed.

 

[Octavean]

I wonder if they'll secretly change the performance of this drive like they've done with previous SSDs, such as the SX8200 PRO.

They could but the PS5 has a specific performance threshold (reads / writes) that must be met, otherwise these SSDs simply will not work in the PS5.

 

[Yrd]

This will cost more than the machine it goes in.

 

[redeye]

This will cost more than the machine it goes in.

no. (well yes, only if you consider the digital version of The PS5)

but the XPG 4TB Gammix s70 Blade is 479 canadian on amazon… (perhaps an acceptable NVME, but is is pcie4. and meets PS5 specs)

the Corsair mp600pro lpx 4TB, and the seagate Game Drive 4TB and the Kingston Fury Renegade 4TB (among others) are the same price as the disc PS5, 729 dollars canadian. (also for sale)
i wish they were the price of the digital version of PS5, 600 dollars.

 

[trsttte]

It's cool that this exists but for anyone thinking they need it, you don't. Really, I had a 2tb and switched it with the computer 1tb ssd because it was just too damn much, I had a lot of games installed ranging from very large 100gb to small and still had a lot of space to spare.

Games with 100gb are fortunately still the exception, with the majority going for 30~40. That's ~20 if you consider an average of 50gb/game in a 1tb drive.