hello everyone it's spawnpoint and
welcome back to another video and today
i'm showing you the newest biggest and
most ridiculous upgrade that i've added
to the playstation 5. so playstation
unlocked the internal ssd bay last year
and with that it came support for up to
four terabyte drives now this is useful
if you want to increase the 667
gigabytes of usable space without an
external ssd plus as more games are
launching with nearly 100 gigabyte
download files the internal storage is
getting used up pretty quickly so today
i'm going to be installing a 4 terabyte
drive from corsa this is the mp600 pro
lpx it's got a pre-installed heatsink
impressive speeds more space than i'll
ever need and a 5-year warranty it's
actually designed and optimized for the
playstation 5 so it's literally plug and
play now when it comes to storing more
games on your ps5 you've got a couple of
options you can either plug an external
ssd into the back and then transfer the
games onto the internal drive when you
wish to play them as you cannot play ps5
games from an external drive or you
could go for one of these m.2 drives
instead this option is definitely more
expensive but it might be a little bit
more convenient for you
a quick look at what the ssd needs it
has to have a gen 4 m.2 nvme ssd with a
capacity of between 250 gig and 4
terabytes then on top of that the read
speed needs to be at least 5 500
megabytes per second the drive also
needs to physically fit inside the bay
so if you've got a drive that doesn't
say it's ps5 compatible make sure it's
within these dimensions
now fortunately the mp600 pro lpx does
fit these dimensions and it goes above
and beyond the specs required it
actually has a read speed of 7 100
megabytes per second and technically
it's actually faster than the western
digital sn850 drive that i've taken out
today
now if you are planning on swapping an
m.2 drive for another you will need to
migrate your games first now as there's
only one bay inside the console you
cannot directly copy from one to the
other what i did was copy all of the
games onto the internal ssd and an
external ssd first that way when i
remove the m.2 drive i don't have to
redownload the games again then once the
new drive is plugged in i can move them
back over but i will show you how i did
that in the next couple of minutes
so to get to the ssd bay we first need
to remove the rear plate and that's the
side that does not have the playstation
logo on if you've changed your plates
already for either of the two new colors
like the midnight black or the cosmic
red you'll know how to do this already
but let me show you anyway simply hold
the top corner here and then you pull
away and slide down at the same time it
will then pop right off now under the
plate we've got the disc drive and we've
got a fan but what we're actually
interested in is this little metal plate
here and this is what covers up the ssd
bay if you look closely you can actually
see this awesome design on the screw
head you've got these little playstation
icons now we need to remove that single
screw and we're able to actually take
the cover off
so this is the drive that i've been
using since august 21. this is the
western digital sn850 and this is the
two terabyte version with a third-party
heatsink it's being held in place with
one single screw so we simply remove
that and we can slide the drive out
the first time that you install a new
drive you will have this little spacer
and screw located at the top of the bay
you need to remove this and you need to
place the spacer wherever you will
insert the new screw for the new drive
just make sure the spacer goes on first
before you try slotting the drive in as
the drive itself will actually sit on
top so now we need to slide the ssd in
insert the original screw to hold it in
place and this is what we're left with
and as the mp600 is designed for the
playstation 5 it obviously fits
perfectly and also make sure that you
reinstall that metal cover this is
important and it's something that sony
recommends once done we can then refit
the playstation 5 rear plate line up and
press firmly until you hear a click
and that's it we've now just added four
terabytes in a matter of minutes
the drive i just installed does have a
heatsink but you can buy drives with and
without then you can add a third-party
heatsink afterwards it's usually cheaper
to do it this way and if you don't mind
spending that extra five minutes
sticking some pads on and attaching some
plates to the ssd this is definitely the
best way to do it that's what i did last
year and i think i saved about 50 pounds
right so we've installed the four
terabyte drive and now we need to switch
on for the moment of truth to see if it
actually works and it'll also be good to
see how many games we're able to install
on the new drive
okay so the first time you turn it on
you will get this message on screen
which recognizes the new drive and it
will of course need formatting it will
then do a quick speed test on the drive
just to ensure that it's compatible okay
now that's done we can go into the
settings on the console and look under
storage from here you can see that the
m.2 drive is listed here and it shows
the full capacity as well so this is a
four terabyte drive as we already know
and it's great to see that the full four
terabytes are available so that's
absolutely awesome and don't forget this
is in addition to the 667 gigabytes we
already have so that's now a total of
4.6 terabytes between the two that's
excluding any external ssds you might
want to plug in
so i mentioned earlier that i'd
installed all of my games on either the
original ps5 storage or those external
ssds we need to copy these back onto the
new drive now copying the games from the
internal ssd is rapid like crazy fast
and we're actually talking less in a
minute sometimes a matter of seconds
astro's playroom for example is 11
gigabytes in size and it took just eight
seconds while cyberpunk at over 50
gigabytes only took 31 seconds however
copying the games from the external ssds
were by comparison painfully slow the
same 50 gigabyte game took over 5
minutes to copy and when moving over 1.5
terabytes of games it took me hours to
complete in total i moved over 70 games
and 2 terabytes from the original drives
onto the new one but that does still
leave me with just under 2 terabytes of
available space that's just enough for
this year's new call of duty
the first thing that i wanted to do was
check the general loading times for
games that i often play each game was
stored on the playstation 5's internal
ssd first booted up and tested out then
i repeated the exact same process on the
new 4 terabyte drive from quarter it
didn't matter which drive the games were
stored on they performed exactly the
same way that's awesome as it means that
although i've installed a third party
drive we're not actually losing any
performance this wasn't a surprise but
it's still good to confirm and i've
tested loads of games over the last
couple of weeks that's including horizon
forbidden west cyberpunk spider-man and
call of duty none of these had a problem
and all loaded and closed without issue
i've also not noticed any heat fans or
sound issues i wasn't sure whether the
larger drive would cause problems with
the playstation 5 and the fans but
through dozens of hours of gaming
whether it has been perfect
oh and a quick tip by default every new
game that you download will
automatically install onto the internal
storage so that
gigabyte drive but if you go into the
settings here you can change the default
location for all future ps4 and ps5
games i used to have ps4 games go to the
external drive and then the ps5 games to
the m.2 drive but now they all go to the
same drive in terms of the overall look
of the playstation 5 or so far i've
added the original midnight black plates
a matte black centerpiece from dbrand
and a little blue led strip this is just
a sticker that goes over the white leds
and it turns them blue instead i don't
think there are any other changes i
would like to do for the playstation 5
now i think it looks pretty good as it
is
but now i can guess the most asked
question that i'll get about this four
terabyte drive and that would be but why
do you need it just delete and
re-download your games again and you
know what is a fair point however for me
it's just not that easy my download
speed where i live is 30 megabytes which
is painfully slow this means it takes me
an entire day to download games from the
store a couple of weeks ago for example
it took me eight hours just to download
horizon on top of that my children use
it so there are usually what 10 to 15
games that i don't even need but i also
cannot delete them either although for
the cost of this drive you could
literally buy two ps5s which is
absolutely ridiculous storage wise i
think four terabytes is definitely
overkill i did it so i could consolidate
the one terabyte ssd external drive as
well as the m.2 drive that was a two
terabyte but ultimately a two terabyte
drive is probably the sweet spot for
most unfortunately the mp600 does come
in all the sizes required for the ps5
that's a 500 gigabyte one terabyte two
terabytes and the four terabyte drive
well you've just made it to the end of
today's video so thank you for watching
let me know which size you would opt for
regardless of the cost would you rather
delete games or do you like the idea of
having your entire library of games
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