Want an SSD for your PS5? Samsung's new 980 Pro comes with built-in heatsink

(Pocket-lint) - Getting clasp of a PlayStation 5 mightiness inactive beryllium uncommon arsenic hen's teeth, but if you person Sony's mighty console then, well, chances are you've already filled up its interior hard thrust with heaps of gaming goodies.

That means you'll privation an SSD to grow the console's retention - a diagnostic that took a agelong clip aft motorboat to beryllium greenlit by the Japanese shaper - and determination aren't a immense fig of options connected the marketplace close now.

Samsung, however, has conscionable revealed its 980 Pro SSD with heatsink, which removes the request to instal some thrust and heatsink separately arsenic is required by immoderate solutions. 

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The 980 Pro, which is owed to motorboat connected 29 October, much than fulfils Sony's velocity requirements, delivering work speeds of 7,000MB/s and constitute speeds of 5,100MB/s, - which is indispensable to handshake with the PS5's super-fast preinstalled SSD and immoderate of the fancy quick-loads it tin deliver, specified arsenic successful Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart.

You'll person to wage for the privilege of that other storage, however, with prices starting astatine $249.99 for 1TB, oregon $449.99 for the 2TB variant - which is astir arsenic overmuch arsenic buying different PS5 each implicit again. The terms of gaming, eh? UK and EU prices are yet to beryllium revealed.

Writing by Mike Lowe. Originally published connected 13 October 2021.