Amazon currently has no shortage of PS5-compatible SSDs on sale, but this deal is batter than most. The 2TB Nextorage Japan PCIe Gen4.0 NVMe M.2 solid state drive is currently available for $109.99. We've generally seen it for sale in the $130-$140 range, which is already a good price. This SSD even includes a robust preinstalled heatsink for 100% PS5 compatibility out of the box.
Nextorage 2TB PS5 SSD with Heatsink for $109.99
There's an interesting story behind Nextorage Japan. Nextorage describes itself as a company that was "created by a group of ex-Sony engineers and staff with over 20 years of experience in the development of memory and storage products". Nextorage was actually originally created by Sony in 2019 as an SSD sub-division about a year before the PS5 was released. Presumably this was to be the basis for an official SSD sold by Sony themselves. For whatever reason, Sony decided to ditch that idea and sold this business to another stakeholder in the company, Phison, in 2022. Phison is another large reputable company that specializes in solid state memory controllers. You'll find their controllers in name-brand SSDs like Seagate, Corsair, and Sabrent. Under Phison, Nextorage Japan eventually accomplished the goal of releasing an SSD catered specifically for the PS5 console in the form of this product right here.
This SSD fulfills all the requisites that make it PS5 compatible. It boasts sequential read and write speeds of 7300MB/s and 6900MB/s, which is much higher than the minimum recommendation of 5,600MB/s. It also includes a robust double-sided aluminum heatsink that's preinstalled on the SSD. This is much better than some of the cheaper SSDs that only include thin graphite heatspreaders.
Now should any of this convince you to choose this SSD over others if the price was the same. I don't think so. This drive appears to be no better or worse than the other reputable SSD brands out there. However, at this current deal price, it certainly beats out most of the competition.
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