Newegg is offering the best price I've seen this year for a high-speed PS5-compatible SSD. Newegg via its official AliExpress storefront is offering a KingSpec XG7000 1TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe Solid State Drive for an impressively low price of $136.39 with free shipping (you'll need to be signed in to see this price). No coupon is needed to get this price, you simply click on the link to activate the discount. This same drive sells for $169 on Amazon.
1TB PS5 SSD for $136.39
Installing an SSD in your PlayStation 5 console is super easy and won't void your warranty. It's also a near essential upgrade. With games taking up as much as 100GB of space apiece, it's very easy to max out the PS5's stock 1TB storage, and it's not unheard of to max out an additional 2TB of space.
The KingSpec XG7000 is very fast for a "budget" M.2 SSD. This is a PCI-E 4x4 drive with transfer speeds of up to 7,400MB/s read and 6,600MB/s write, which passes Sony's recommended minimum requirement of 5,5000MB/s. Despite the fact that this is a budget SSD, the XG7000 is equipped with TCL 3D NAND flash memory. Most cheap SSDs use QLC memory, which has slower sustained speeds and a shorter lifespan. To save costs, the XG7000 doesn't have onboard DRAM, and instead uses HMB, or onboard system memory for buffering. For PS5 gamers, there's no difference.
Performance and feature-wise, the KingSpec XG7000 is similar to other popular SSDs like the Samsung Evo Plus and the WD Black SN7100, however Crucial's 4TB model is the least expensive of the three options, especially with the heatsink pre-attached.
The best PS5 SSDs you can buy in 2025
Over the past few console generations with built-in storage, gamers were typically stuck with however much storage that came with the console. With the PS5, Sony made a surprising move by including an internal M.2 PCIe slot to install an off-the-shelf SSD to supplement the internal storage. Given that this is the same company that paired the PS Vita and PSP with ludicrously expensive memory cards, this was a welcoming change of pace, especially given the paltry 825GB of storage you have to work with. Now, you can install high-end PC SSDs like the Corsair MP600 Pro LPX, our number one pick, to load even more games nearly as fast as the extra-special drive that's built into the console itself.
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