Play Station 5: No Expandable SSD Storage Support For PS5, Sony Confirms

Play Station 5 Updates: Sony is good to go to dispatch its band new PlayStation 5 consoles globally on November 12, with the dispatch planned for November 19 in certain regions including India.

The enthusiasm in front of the PlayStation 5 dispatch is through the rooftop, powered by ongoing unpacking videos from popular tech YouTubers and Sony itself.

While everybody is sitting tight for the PS5 to hit the racks, the new console accompanies its own blemishes. One of these defects is the disappointing extra room Sony has declared.

The Sony PlayStation 5 will have an 825GB SSD drive, out of which, just 667.2GB will be usable by clients for their games and applications. Presently, a report makes things in the storage part even worse, as it appears to be that Sony’s PS5 won’t uphold expandable SSD storage at launch.

Why did PS5 remove this feature?

The Japanese Electronics producer affirmed this news to US-based media site The Verge. While the Sony PlayStation 5 comes with a devoted port that can fit a standard stick-shaped M.2 SSD, the port will be disabled out of the box.

Sony said to The Verge that this is held for a future update. PS5 hardware architect Mark Cerny had said that the support for expandable SSD will probably come somewhat later after the release to be in March.

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Mark had announced that back in March not all M.2 SSDs are sufficiently quick to stay up to date with the PS5, sufficiently slip to find a way into the SSD plate, or viable with Sony’s I/O regulator.

In those days, Cerny had said that off-the-rack SSDs would need to support more than 5.5GB/sec data transfer capacity over a PCIe Gen4 connection, and not have a major heatsink that won’t find a way into the PS5. Sony had guaranteed a similarity test in the not so distant future.

The Verge likewise conversed with a couple of PCIe Gen4 stick drive makers and said that not even a single one of them had the option to let them know whether their drives will work with the PlayStation 5.

Play Station 5 Release Date:

Play Station 5 will be launching in North America, Japan, Australia, South Korea, and New Zealand on 12 November 2020.