Seagate launches affordable Game Drive NVMe SSD for PS5 consoles

Seagate is launching its first officially licensed Game Drive for PS5 consoles. The new M.2 SSD is designed to slot straight into the free slot in the PS5, allowing owners to expand storage and install more new-gen games.

Backwards compatible titles can run on PS5 (and Xbox Series X/S) through a hard drive but for new-gen games, an SSD is required. The PS5 doesn't ship with a ton of internal storage to begin with, with the internal SSD offering up around 700GB of usable storage space and with games like Call of Duty or sports games like Madden taking up well over 100GB each, that space fills up pretty fast.

The Seagate Game Drive PS5 NVMe SSD offers a solution. Offering PCIe Gen 4 technology and read/write speeds of up to 7300MB/s and 6000MB/s respectively. The SSD ships with a slimline heatsink pre-installed, which is designed to slot neatly into the PS5 without any issue. The heatsink should help keep temperatures in check for long gaming sessions.

The Seagate Game Drive PS5 NVMe SSD is available starting today, with the 1TB model priced at £99.90 and the 2TB version priced at £150. Right now on Amazon, both drives are on sale, so the 2TB one can be had for £116.99 and the 1TB model can be had for just £72.99.

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