Installing a PS5 SSD is far easier than it looks - here’s how

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The PS5 might be a premium console that’s already loaded with fantastic exclusives so early in its lifespan. But games like Returnal, Horizon Forbidden West and Gran Turismo 7, while amazing, can very quickly fill up your PS5’s storage space due to immensely large file sizes.

Thankfully, a firmware update made available just under a year after the PS5 launched made it so that owners of Sony’s flagship hardware could install their own internal SSDs to greatly expand the storage space available on the console. The downside is that it also meant having to remove your PS5’s faceplates and getting more intimate with the system’s innards.

This is what initially put me off trying to install an internal SSD for my PS5. I’m heavy-handed at the best of times, so I’d drummed it into my own head that I’d surely need surgical precision to successfully install one of the best PS5 SSDs into my console, with one wrong move potentially bricking the system entirely.

I needn’t have been so cynical about it, as upon finally plucking up the courage to install my own internal SSD, I found that the whole process was more blissfully simple than I’d imagined it to be.

Legitimately the trickiest part of installing the PS5 SSD wasn’t actually the clicking and fixing the thing into place. Nor was it removing the SSD cover with a screwdriver. Nay, by far the most difficult part of the whole process turned out to be removing those damn faceplates from the PS5 itself.

Yet after spending a few minutes feeling like SpongeBob Squarepants, fruitlessly trying to pry the lid off a bottle of ketchup to get into the Salty Spitoon, I soon managed to slide the faceplate out of place, revealing what’s under the hood of the PS5.

But from there, the rest of the process