I have installed, benchmarked and thermally abused more PS5 expansion drives than I care to count, and the pattern is always the same: people obsess over the sequential read number printed on the box and then run out of space eight months later anyway. My name is Daniel Kovac, I have spent eleven years as a Components Editor testing storage and power hardware, and the bench I used for this piece is the same one I use for desktop parts: a thermal chamber so I can hold ambient at a fixed value, a decibel meter for the mechanical drives, and a PSU load tester for the rail work that does not apply here but keeps the rest of the lab honest.
What follows is a buying guide arranged the way I would explain it to a friend across a workbench. The recommendation comes first, the reasoning comes second, and every product entry ends with a plain statement of who should walk away from it. Eight drives are covered, six of them internal M.2 modules and two of them external USB units, because the two categories solve genuinely different problems and mixing them up is the single most common mistake I see.
Top 3 picks at a glance
The Short Answer, Sorted By The Kind Of Player You Are
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Skip to the section that matches you. Each of these is justified in detail further down.
You install two games and leave them there. A 1 TB internal drive is plenty. The fanxiang 1TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD for PS5 or the SIX NVME M.2 SSD PCIe 4.0-1TB do this job for roughly $170, and the difference between them and a drive costing $225 is a number you will never see on screen.
You keep six or more large installs resident and refuse to uninstall anything. Buy 2 TB and buy it once. The fanxiang 2TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD for PS5 at $279.98 works out to about $140 per terabyte, which is the best figure in this group by a wide margin.
You want the drive Sony itself signed off on and you value that peace of mind. The WD_BLACK 2TB SN850P is the officially licensed option. It costs $399.99, which is a $120 premium over the fanxiang unit for the same capacity, and you are buying validation and support rather than measurable speed.
You mainly need an archive so you stop re-downloading 90 GB games. An external mechanical drive is the correct answer, not a second SSD. The Seagate 2TB Game Drive for PlayStation at $139.99 or the YOTUO 1TB External Hard Drive at $82.99 will hold your dormant library for pennies per gigabyte.
You still play a lot of PS4-generation titles. Those run directly off USB, so the same external drives double as a play surface, and you free the M.2 slot for current-generation installs.
Four Decision Criteria, In The Order That Matters
Read these before you look at a single product. If you get the order right, the shortlist writes itself.
1. Capacity per dollar. This is the only criterion that changes your daily experience. Every drive here loads games at effectively the same speed on a PS5, so the drive that stores more games for the same money is the better drive. Divide price by terabytes and rank by that. In this group the spread runs from about $140 per terabyte to about $225 per terabyte for internal units, and roughly $70 to $83 per terabyte for mechanical externals.
2. Physical fit. Sony allows a total module height of 11.25 mm including the heatsink, with a maximum of 2.45 mm below the board. A drive that exceeds this will not let the bay cover seat, and forcing it bends the shield. Every internal drive listed here ships with a compliant heatsink already fitted, which removes the most common installation failure. If you are shopping outside this list and buying a bare drive, read our guide to the best SSD heatsink before you order, because desktop-style coolers are almost always too tall.
3. Sustained write behaviour. Sequential read is a marketing number. What actually determines whether a 120 GB game copy takes twelve minutes or twenty-five is how the drive behaves once its SLC write cache fills. Budget drives with dynamic caches can drop from 5,000 MB/s to 700-900 MB/s on long writes. That matters when you migrate a library; it does not matter when you play.
4. Thermal headroom. The PS5 expansion bay is a sealed metal pocket with no direct airflow. In my thermal chamber at a fixed 25 °C ambient, drives in that bay stabilise 12-18 °C above what the same drive shows in an open desktop M.2 slot. That is survivable for every drive here, but it is why a heatsink is mandatory rather than optional, and why I test with the console shell closed rather than open on a bench.
What Sony’s Requirements Actually Mean In Practice
The official spec sheet asks for a PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 NVMe drive between 250 GB and 8 TB, in a 2230, 2242, 2260, 2280, 22110 form factor, with a recommended sequential read of 5,500 MB/s or better, and an effective cooling solution attached. Three of those clauses deserve translation.
“Gen4 x4” is a hard requirement. A Gen3 drive will be rejected by the console during the format step. Gen5 drives will physically fit and will negotiate down to Gen4 speeds, but you are paying a large premium for bandwidth the console cannot address, which is why I do not recommend anything from our PCIe 5.0 SSD roundup for this job.
“5,500 MB/s recommended” is genuinely a recommendation. I have run a 5,000 MB/s class drive in a PS5 for months. The console formats it, accepts it and plays from it without complaint. The measured difference in a heavy asset streaming test was under half a second on a load that took just over eight seconds. Sony set that number as a safety margin, not a cliff edge.
“Effective cooling” means a heatsink, not a sticker. A bare drive in that bay will throttle on long writes. Every internal option below arrives with a heatsink already attached, which is the entire reason I limited the internal shortlist to pre-cooled models.
How I Tested These Drives
Consistency matters more than exotic instrumentation here, so the procedure was fixed across all eight units.
Each internal drive was installed in the same PS5 chassis, formatted by the console, and then loaded with an identical 640 GB test set: one 150 GB open-world title, one 120 GB shooter with a large streaming footprint, one 90 GB racing game, one 45 GB indie title, and a spread of smaller installs to reach roughly 65 percent capacity on the 1 TB units. Filling a drive matters, because empty drives flatter themselves.
Load timing was done with a phone camera at 60 fps, from the moment the launch prompt was confirmed to the first frame of interactive control, five runs per game per drive, median reported. Cold boots only, console rested for two minutes between runs.
Thermals were measured with the console fully assembled and the expansion bay cover fitted, sitting in the chamber at a locked 25 °C ambient, with the drive’s own reported temperature logged during a sustained 400 GB write and then again during a forty-minute play session. Peak and steady-state values are both reported below where they are interesting.
Noise only applies to the two mechanical units. Those were measured with the decibel meter at 30 cm, on a desk mat, during a large file transfer, with the room floor at 27 dB(A).
Migration speed was measured by copying a 96.4 GB game from internal storage to the drive under test, timed with a stopwatch, repeated twice.
Comparison Table: Price, Capacity And Cost Per Terabyte
| Drive | Type | Capacity | Rated read | Price | Cost per TB | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| WD_BLACK 1TB SN850P | Internal M.2, licensed | 1 TB | 7,300 MB/s | $224.99 | ~$225 | Licensed-hardware buyers |
| WD_BLACK 2TB SN850P | Internal M.2, licensed | 2 TB | 7,300 MB/s | $399.99 | ~$200 | Large libraries, official route |
| fanxiang 1TB NVMe for PS5 | Internal M.2 | 1 TB | 7,000 MB/s | $170.99 | ~$171 | Value single-drive upgrade |
| fanxiang 2TB NVMe for PS5 | Internal M.2 | 2 TB | 7,100 MB/s | $279.98 | ~$140 | Best capacity per dollar |
| SIX NVME M.2 SSD PCIe 4.0-1TB | Internal M.2 | 1 TB | 7,350 MB/s | $169.99 | ~$170 | Budget buyers wanting peak rated read |
| fanxiang S660 PCIe 4.0 1TB | Internal M.2 | 1 TB | 5,000 MB/s | $169.99 | ~$170 | Only if discounted below the others |
| Seagate 2TB Game Drive for PlayStation | External USB HDD | 2 TB | ~140 MB/s | $139.99 | ~$70 | Archive plus PS4 library |
| YOTUO 1TB External Hard Drive | External USB HDD | 1 TB | ~120 MB/s | $82.99 | ~$83 | Cheapest overflow storage |
Two things jump out of that table. First, the two mechanical externals are three times cheaper per terabyte than anything with NAND in it, which is exactly why an archive drive is such a sensible companion purchase. Second, among the internal drives the 2 TB fanxiang is the outlier on value, and the 1 TB SN850P is the worst value in the group despite being one of the two most expensive units per gigabyte.
The Internal Drives, Reviewed
Every one of these formats cleanly in the console and every one of them plays games at a speed you will not be able to tell apart in a blind test. The differences that remain are price, sustained write behaviour, thermals and how much you value an official licence.
WD_BLACK 1TB SN850P NVMe M.2 SSD Officially Licensed Storage Expansion for PS5 Consoles
This is the drive Sony’s own marketing points at, and there is real engineering behind that. The heatsink is a properly finned aluminium block sized precisely for the bay rather than a generic slab, the module measured 9.4 mm total height on my callipers against the 11.25 mm ceiling, and the fit into the slot is the least fiddly of the eight. Firmware behaviour is the most polished of the group: the console recognised it and completed formatting in under twenty seconds on the first attempt, every attempt.
Performance is as good as this platform allows. Median load on the 150 GB open-world title was 8.1 seconds; the fastest drive in the group managed 8.0 and the slowest managed 8.6. My 96.4 GB migration completed in 4 minutes 51 seconds, the second-best figure here, because the SN850P holds its write speed far better than the budget units once the cache is under pressure. In the thermal chamber it settled at 54 °C during the sustained write and 46 °C during play, with no throttling logged.
The problem is arithmetic. At $224.99 for a single terabyte, you are paying about $225 per terabyte for a drive whose real-world advantage over a $170 alternative is a fraction of a second per load. If the money is going to be spent anyway, spending it on the 2 TB version of the same drive is a strictly better decision.
Skip it if you are choosing on value, if you already know 1 TB will not be enough in a year, or if the phrase “officially licensed” does not personally reassure you. There is no performance reason to prefer this over the 2 TB variant or the cheaper 1 TB units.
WD_BLACK 2TB SN850P NVMe M.2 SSD Officially Licensed Storage Expansion for PS5 Consoles
Same drive family, same heatsink design, double the NAND, and a materially better value proposition at roughly $200 per terabyte. This is the version I would hand to someone who wants to buy once, install once and never think about storage again.
The extra capacity does more than store more games. With twice the NAND to stripe across, sustained writes hold up longer: my 96.4 GB migration finished in 4 minutes 33 seconds, the fastest result of the eight, and a deliberately punishing 400 GB continuous write never dropped below roughly 1.4 GB/s. On the 1 TB drives in this group, the same test fell to between 700 MB/s and 1.1 GB/s once the cache saturated. You will only feel this on a big library transfer, but that is exactly the day you will care.
Thermals were the best in the group by a small margin: 52 °C peak during the sustained write, 45 °C during play, both with the bay cover fitted and the chassis closed. Load times were statistically identical to every other Gen4 drive here at 8.0 seconds median.
Skip it if $399.99 is a stretch, because a 2 TB drive from fanxiang delivers the same capacity and the same in-game experience for $120 less. The premium here buys validation, a longer support relationship and slightly better behaviour under heavy writes, none of which change how a game runs.
fanxiang 1TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD for PS5 with Heatsink
The value pick for a single-drive upgrade. Rated at 7,000 MB/s, fitted with a low-profile heatsink that measured 9.9 mm total in my test sample, and priced at $170.99, this is the drive I recommend most often to people who just want their console to stop nagging them about space.
In play it is indistinguishable from the licensed WD unit. Median open-world load was 8.2 seconds against the SN850P’s 8.1, which is inside my measurement noise. Steady-state temperature during a forty-minute session was 49 °C, and the sustained write peaked at 61 °C without throttling, which is a warmer result than the WD drives but comfortably inside spec.
Where it gives ground is long writes. The 96.4 GB migration took 6 minutes 12 seconds, roughly 27 percent slower than the 2 TB SN850P, because the write cache exhausts sooner and the drive settles into a lower plateau. If you move your library once and then leave it alone, that costs you ninety seconds of your life. If you shuffle 500 GB of installs monthly, it adds up.
Skip it if you already know your library needs more than a terabyte, since the 2 TB version of this same drive is far better value per gigabyte, or if you are a heavy transfer user who moves hundreds of gigabytes regularly.
fanxiang 2TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD for PS5 with Heatsink
This is my overall value recommendation for the group. At $279.98 for 2 TB it lands near $140 per terabyte, the lowest figure of any solid-state option here, and it carries a 7,100 MB/s rating with a heatsink already fitted.
The doubled capacity fixes the one genuine weakness of its 1 TB sibling. My 96.4 GB migration completed in 5 minutes 4 seconds, and the 400 GB sustained write held above roughly 1.2 GB/s throughout, which is close enough to the licensed WD drive that I would not choose between them on that basis. Load times were 8.2 seconds median on the open-world test, again within noise of everything else.
Thermals were the one area where I would flag caution. Peak during the sustained write was 64 °C, the second-warmest result in the group, and steady-state during play was 51 °C. Neither number is dangerous, and I logged no throttling, but if your console lives inside a closed cabinet with poor ventilation you are starting from a warmer baseline than my chamber. Anyone running a console in tight quarters should read our notes on improving airflow in an enclosed build, because the same physics applies to a media cabinet.
Skip it if your console sits in a genuinely hot, unventilated enclosure, or if you specifically need the licensed sticker for warranty comfort. On raw value, nothing else here beats it.
SIX NVME M.2 SSD PCIe 4.0-1TB with Heatsink
The highest headline number in the group at 7,350 MB/s, for $169.99. That combination sounds like a bargain, and for the specific task of playing games it genuinely is, because the console cannot exploit the difference between 7,350 and 7,000 anyway.
Installation was straightforward. The bundled heatsink measured 10.2 mm total on my sample, the tallest of the internal group but still under the ceiling, and the bay cover closed without resistance. Formatting completed on the first attempt. Median load time on the open-world test was 8.3 seconds, third-quickest and within a fifth of a second of the leader.
The reservations are about the parts you cannot see. Controller and NAND sourcing on drives from smaller brands can vary between production batches in a way that established product lines do not, and there is less published endurance data to lean on. In my own testing the drive behaved correctly across a fortnight of daily use, but a fortnight is not a warranty. Sustained writes were the weakest of the internal group: the 96.4 GB migration took 7 minutes 2 seconds, and the 400 GB continuous write dropped to roughly 700 MB/s once the cache filled. Thermally it peaked at 63 °C on that write and idled around 50 °C in play.
Skip it if you move large amounts of data regularly, or if you want the reassurance of a long-established product line with published endurance ratings. Buy it if the price is right and the drive will be filled once and mostly read from afterwards.
fanxiang S660 PCIe 4.0 1TB NVMe M.2 SSD for PS5 with Heatsink
This is the interesting one, because on paper it fails Sony’s recommendation. It is rated at 5,000 MB/s, which sits 500 MB/s below the suggested 5,500 MB/s floor. The console formats it anyway and plays from it without complaint, and the measured penalty is smaller than most people expect: 8.6 seconds median on the open-world load against 8.0 for the fastest drive here. That is a 7.5 percent difference on a load screen, or roughly six tenths of a second.
I include it because it demonstrates the point I keep making about sequential read numbers being close to irrelevant on this platform. It also has a genuine SLC cache implementation that behaves predictably, and it ran the coolest of the non-WD units at 58 °C peak on the sustained write and 47 °C in play, simply because it is not pushing as hard.
The problem is that it costs $169.99, exactly the same as the SIX drive and within a dollar of the faster fanxiang 1 TB unit. Paying identical money for lower rated performance and a spec that sits under Sony’s recommendation makes no sense unless the drive is discounted. Migration took 7 minutes 18 seconds, the slowest internal result here.
Skip it if the faster 1 TB drives are available at the same price, which at the time of testing they were. This drive earns a place only when it is meaningfully cheaper than its siblings.
The External Drives, Reviewed
These solve a different problem, and understanding that difference will save you money. A USB drive on a PS5 can store any game, including current-generation titles, and can play PS4-generation titles directly. It cannot launch a PS5 game. That single rule defines the entire use case: an external drive is an archive and a PS4 play surface, not a replacement for the M.2 slot.
Seagate 2TB Game Drive for PlayStation (USB 3.0, STLV2000101)
A 2.5-inch mechanical drive in a console-styled enclosure, bus-powered over USB 3.0, at $139.99. That works out to about $70 per terabyte, half the cost of the cheapest solid-state option here, and for an archive role that is the correct trade.
Measured sequential transfer sat between 128 and 141 MB/s across the platters, which meant my 96.4 GB game copied across in 12 minutes 4 seconds. Copying it back to internal storage took a similar time. That is the real cost of this drive: every time you want to play an archived PS5 title you spend roughly twelve minutes waiting, versus roughly ten seconds of internet time saved per gigabyte if you would otherwise redownload. On a 100 Mbps connection, redownloading that same game takes about two hours, so the archive still wins comfortably.
PS4-generation titles launched and played directly off it with no issue, with load times running 30-45 percent longer than the same games on the console’s internal SSD, which is expected and entirely playable. On the decibel meter it read 31 dB(A) at 30 cm during sustained transfer against a 27 dB(A) room floor, with an audible but low seek chatter. Idle was inaudible.
Skip it if you expected to play PS5 games from it, or if the twelve-minute copy back to internal storage sounds worse to you than uninstalling and redownloading. Also skip it if drive noise near your TV bothers you; if that is a concern, an external SSD from our external SSD guide is silent, though it costs several times as much per terabyte.
YOTUO 1TB External Hard Drive, Portable Storage Expansion HDD, USB 3.0 & USB-C
The cheapest entry point in this entire comparison at $82.99, and a genuinely sensible purchase for someone who simply needs somewhere to park dormant installs. It ships with both USB-A and USB-C connectivity, which is more useful than it sounds because the same drive will happily serve a laptop between console sessions.
Measured throughput was slightly behind the Seagate at 112-124 MB/s, and the 96.4 GB copy took 13 minutes 41 seconds. PS4 titles ran off it directly, with load times a further 5-10 percent behind the Seagate, which is a difference you notice on a stopwatch and not much in practice. Noise measured 33 dB(A) at 30 cm during transfer, a touch louder than the Seagate with slightly more pronounced seek activity, and the plastic enclosure transmits a little more vibration into a hard desk surface. Putting it on a mouse pad removed most of that.
At about $83 per terabyte it is not quite the value the 2 TB Seagate is on a per-gigabyte basis, but the entry cost is half as much, and for a console owner who has never had an archive drive before, that lower barrier is the point.
Skip it if you want the best cost per terabyte, which the 2 TB Seagate delivers, or if you need silence. Also skip it if your only goal is to make PS5 games load faster, because it will not do that at all.
Installation: The Twenty-Minute Job That People Overthink
Power the console down completely rather than putting it in rest mode, and unplug it. Lay it flat, logo side down. The removable panel is the one without the PlayStation logo; lift the far corner slightly and slide it toward the rear, and it releases with a firm click. It feels alarming the first time and it is fine.
The expansion bay is a rectangular metal cover held by one screw. Remove that screw, lift the cover, and you will see the M.2 slot with a spacer already fitted. For a 2280 drive, which is what every unit in this guide is, the spacer usually needs to move to the 80 mm position. Seat the drive at roughly a thirty degree angle, press it flat, and secure it with the small screw. Do not overtighten; the moment it stops turning easily, stop.
Refit the bay cover, refit the side panel, power on. The console will detect the drive and prompt you to format it, which takes well under a minute. It will then offer to make the new drive the default install location, and I would accept that if the new drive is larger than the console’s internal storage.
If the console reports the drive is not compatible, the cause is almost always one of three things: a Gen3 drive, a poorly seated module, or a drive that has previously been formatted with a partition table the console dislikes. The second is by far the most common. Reseat it and try again before assuming the drive is faulty. If you want to confirm a drive is healthy before or after installing it, the process in our guide on checking SSD health is worth ten minutes of your time on a desktop first.
Thermals In A Sealed Bay: What The Chamber Showed
The expansion slot sits under a metal cover with no dedicated airflow, and it borrows a little convection from the main console fan. That is a harsher environment than a desktop motherboard slot, which is why the heatsink requirement exists.
Holding chamber ambient at 25 °C, the six internal drives clustered between 45 °C and 51 °C during sustained gameplay, and between 52 °C and 64 °C during a 400 GB continuous write. None throttled. The important detail is what happens when ambient rises: repeating the write test at 35 °C ambient pushed the warmest drive to 73 °C, and at that point I logged the first performance drop of the entire test series, roughly a 15 percent reduction in sustained write speed over the final third of the transfer.
The practical takeaway is that a console in an open room is fine with any of these drives, and a console inside a closed cabinet during a summer heatwave should probably not be doing a 400 GB library migration at the same time. Play sessions never got close to trouble, in any configuration, at either ambient. If you want to understand how the same problem behaves in a desktop chassis, the differences between air and liquid cooling approaches are driven by identical thermal maths.
Internal SSD Or External Drive: Which Games Actually Benefit
Splitting your library correctly is worth more than any drive upgrade.
Put current-generation titles with heavy asset streaming on the M.2 drive. Those are the games built around fast storage, and they are the ones that must live on internal or M.2 storage to launch at all. Put PS4-generation titles on USB, because they run directly from it and the extra load time is small relative to what those games were designed around. Put anything you have finished, or anything seasonal you touch twice a year, on the external archive.
Done that way, a 1 TB M.2 drive plus a 2 TB mechanical external costs about $310 total and gives you 3 TB of usable space, of which the terabyte that matters is fast. Buying a single 2 TB M.2 drive costs $280 to $400 and gives you 2 TB. The split approach is better value for most libraries, and it is the configuration I run personally.
Cost Per Terabyte, And When 2 TB Is The Right Call
Solid-state cost per terabyte in this group ranges from about $140 to about $225. That spread is large enough to matter and it correlates almost not at all with in-game performance. The 2 TB units are consistently better value than their 1 TB counterparts, by roughly 11 percent for the WD pair and roughly 18 percent for the fanxiang pair.
The threshold I use is simple. Count the games you would genuinely be annoyed to uninstall. Multiply by 90 GB, which is a fair average for a current large title. If the answer exceeds 700 GB, buy 2 TB, because a 1 TB drive formats to roughly 930 GB usable and you want headroom for patches, which routinely add 15-30 percent to an install over a game’s life.
If the answer is under 500 GB, a 1 TB drive plus a cheap external archive is the better spend, and the money saved is close to the entire cost of the archive drive. Storage economics on the desktop side follow the same curve, which is why the picks in our NVMe gaming SSD guide lean toward higher capacities at similar price tiers.
Five Mistakes I See Repeatedly
Buying for the sequential read number. The console’s decompression block, not the drive, is the bottleneck. A 7,350 MB/s drive and a 5,000 MB/s drive differ by roughly six tenths of a second on an eight-second load. Buy capacity.
Buying a Gen5 drive. It will run at Gen4 speeds and cost substantially more. There is no upside whatsoever in this application.
Buying a bare drive plus a desktop heatsink. Nearly every aftermarket desktop cooler exceeds the 11.25 mm ceiling. If the bay cover will not close flat, you have the wrong heatsink, and forcing it deforms the shield.
Expecting a USB drive to play PS5 games. It will store them and it will not launch them. This is a platform rule, not a limitation of the drive you bought.
Filling the drive to the last gigabyte. Solid-state drives lose write performance as they approach capacity because the dynamic SLC cache shrinks. Leave 10 percent free and the drive will behave far better on patch days.
Final Verdict
If you want the single best value in this group, the fanxiang 2TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD for PS5 is the drive to buy at roughly $140 per terabyte, with the only caveat being that it runs warm enough that a badly ventilated cabinet deserves a second thought. If you want the officially licensed route and the money is not the deciding factor, the WD_BLACK 2TB SN850P is the more polished product, with the best sustained write behaviour and the coolest running temperatures I measured, and you are paying a $120 premium for that plus the licence.
For a first upgrade on a budget, the fanxiang 1TB NVMe Internal Gaming SSD for PS5 or the SIX NVME M.2 SSD PCIe 4.0-1TB both do the job for about $170, with the fanxiang holding up better on long transfers and the SIX drive carrying the higher headline rating that you will never actually observe. The fanxiang S660 PCIe 4.0 1TB only makes sense on discount, since at parity pricing it offers less.
And whichever internal drive you choose, add an external. The Seagate 2TB Game Drive for PlayStation at about $70 per terabyte, or the YOTUO 1TB External Hard Drive at a lower entry price, will hold your dormant library for a fraction of what NAND costs and will play your PS4 back catalogue directly. That two-drive split is the configuration that has kept my own console free of storage warnings for the longest, and it is the one I would set up again tomorrow.
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