Enlarge (credit: Silicon Motion) Most companies still haven’t shifted their entire NVMe SSD lineups to use PCI Express 4.0, but PCIe 5.0 SSDs for PCs are already on the horizon. Storage company Silicon Motion said in a recent earnings call that it expects its PCIe 5.0-capable SSD controllers for consumer SSDs will be available sometime […]
Seagate says its Firecuda 530 M. 2 drive will work with the PS5. [credit: Seagate ] New PlayStation 5 system software rolling out in beta today finally unlocks the long-promised ability to expand the system’s 667GB of usable internal storage, using M. 2 SSDs that fit certain technical and physical requirements. As listed on a […]
Enlarge / What’s missing from this console profile shot in April 2021? A compatible expansion drive for next-gen game storage. (credit: Sony Interactive Entertainment) On Monday, Sony posted a bulletin to PlayStation 5 fans letting them know about a sweeping new system update, meant largely to touch up the game console’s menu interface. The blog […]
Enlarge / This style of PCIe 4.0 M.2 SSD should soon work with the PS5, though that massive heatsink won’t fit inside the system’s expansion bay. Bloomberg cites unnamed “people briefed on the matter” in reporting that PS5 owners will finally be able to expand the system’s built-in storage by this coming summer. The planned […]
A visualization reveals how the growth storage-card slots to the back of the Xbox Collection X. [charge: Microsoft / / Eurogamer ] Back in Marchwe warned that the proprietary NVMe storage system expansions used at the Xbox collection X (and the Xbox collection S) might be quite a little pricier compared to conventional storage choices. […]