The best SSD for your PlayStation 5

engadget.com:

In 2021, ten months after the PlayStation 5 hit store shelves, Sony released a software update that unlocked the console’s storage expansion slot. At launch, the PS5 offered only 667GB of space for storing your games, with no way to increase that. While that was fine for some (like me), others (like my son) were forced to perform a near-daily juggling act that involved frequently deleting and redownloading games due to the PS5’s small SSD and the apparent need to have constant access to every Call of Duty game.

Now, you can increase your PS5’s available storage by slotting in a standard PCIe Gen4 x4 M.2 NVMe SSD. If that mess of acronyms has you recoiling, don’t worry, you’ll see that it’s not all that complicated, and if you want to know which drives we recommend, you can skip to the end.

The PS5 will accept drives between 250GB and 4TB in capacity. If you already own a PlayStation 5, chances are you have a reasonable idea of how much storage you want. If you’re buying an SSD with a new PS5, or buying for someone else, though, it’s more difficult to tell.

PS5 games are a little smaller on average than their PS4 equivalents, typically taking up between 30GB and 100GB, with some notable (and very popular) exceptions. If you’re a fan of the Call of Duty series, installing Modern Warfare II and Warzone 2.0 will require more than 200GB. In other words, a full Call of Duty install will take up almost one-third of the PS5’s internal storage. If you’re not a CoD fan, though, chances are you’ll be good to store between six to 10 games on your PS5 internally before running into problems.

One additional thing to consider is your internet speed. If you live in an area with slow broadband, the “you can just download it again” rationale