We'll walk you through it below, using XPG's Gammix S70 Blade as an example, since it ships with the heatsink not yet attached, and more than exceeds Sony's speed requirements.
It's not as difficult as it sounds, either. You might rightly conclude that the cheapest way to get yourself an M.2 SSD for the PS5 would be to buy a model without a heatsink, then attach a third-party heatsink yourself before fitting it using the steps above, and you'd be right. How to install your own heatsink on an SSD If any of these steps are unclear, meanwhile, you can check out Sony's extremely detailed information page here, which also contains really granular breakdowns of exactly what type of SSD you'll want to buy, in case our two recommendations aren't to your tastes. Once that process is complete, in under a minute from our experience, you'll be free to enjoy your expanded storage and forget about the days of deleting games all the time. If you've done everything right, powering on the PS5 should send you to a formatting screen to set your drive up.
Then you can reattach the white plastic side of the PS5, sliding it into place until it clicks solidly, then hook it all back up to power by your TV. Once your SSD is secure, you can screw the cover for its slot back into place. The remaining 60GB SSD can be used as external storage or extended storage alternatively. Then, you should re-install your preferred Windows OS to your 500GB HDD. In this case, you need to backup all your important files. Close your PS5 back up and format your driveįrom here, it's about going back in reverse. Option 1: Consider replacing your 60GB SSD with your 500GB HDD as your primary storage.
