Getting close to maxing out your PS5’s SSD? You have a few choices: either start deleting some of those meaty RPGs, pronto, or get used to paying the kind of money SanDisk is charging for its new, officially licensed storage expansion drives.
The Optimus GX Pro 850P NVMe SSD is among a number of new SanDisk drives that have been rebranded from the previous WD_Black naming convention. Designed with the PS5 and PS5 Pro in mind, it’s available in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB and 8TB variants, with the top-end model priced at a truly eye-watering $2,960. And according to SanDisk’s website, that’s actually the reduced price, down from its regular price of $3,700. To put that into perspective, that’s more than 3x the price of a PS5 Pro in the US right now, which already includes a 2TB SSD straight out of the box.
Even the $760 2TB model (reduced from $950) is more than $100 more expensive than the standard PS5 with a disc drive. The Optimus GX Pro 850P is a PCle 4.0 drive with Read/Write speeds of 7,300/6,300MB/s and a heatsink design. These specs make it sound suspiciously similar (if not completely identical) to the WD_Black SN850X NVMe SSD that the 850P is seemingly replacing, and it didn’t take me long to discover that the 8TB model of the former drive was on sale for under $600 just last year.
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