Sony SSD fastest SSD

[Gamer Schnitzel]

I heard that the Sony SSD is the fastest and that they somehow overclocked it for it to be faster than any consumer SSD.

Is this true? I want to build a PC when the new cards come out and hate the idea that my storage would be slower than the Sony SSD.

 

Is there perhaps a write/read speed that we can use to check whether an SSD is faster than the PS5 SSD?

Please don't link me the $500 Aorus SSD though..

[Void Master]

5 minutes ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

I heard that the Sony SSD is the fastest and that they somehow overclocked it for it to be faster than any consumer SSD.

Is this true? I want to build a PC when the new cards come out and hate the idea that my storage would be slower than the Sony SSD.

 

Is there perhaps a write/read speed that we can use to check whether an SSD is faster than the PS5 SSD?

Please don't link me the $500 Aorus SSD though..

watch this first:

 

[Haro]

5 minutes ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

they somehow overclocked

completely wrong 

they have a new compression system and a new controller etc

watch the video ltt just released explaining how it works  

[The_russian]

I would recommend you watch thy LTT video released today, it is on this topic. Basically Tim Sweeney didn’t say the Sony SSD is the “fastest”, he said it was “best-in-class”. The reason they are able to have the “best-in-class” SSD is because they control the software as well as the hardware for storage, which SSD manufactures for PC SSDs can’t do. It is basically a limitation of windows iirc. As for checking the write/read speeds, that won’t be possible until the PS5 is released, even then I don’t know how you would test them since you would have to take into account the software side of things as well.

[IkeaGnome]

Spoiler

The PlayStation 5's new solid state drive isn't your run of the mill PCIe 4.0 SSD. It's heavily customized on a number of levels, including its revamped 12-channel memory controller. While on the surface it has similar specs to a PC-level SSD like PCIe 4.0 interface with 4x lanes on an M.2 card using the NVMe protocol, it's been built from the ground up specifically for the system's custom 7nm AMD SoC and 16GB of GDDR6 system memory. And in many ways, the SSD is the most important part of the PlayStation 5.

Read more: https://www.tweaktown.com/news/71340/understanding-the-ps5s-ssd-deep-dive-into-next-gen-storage-tech/index.html

https://www.tweaktown.com/news/71340/understanding-the-ps5s-ssd-deep-dive-into-next-gen-storage-tech/index.html

 

They didn't overclock it. It's pretty much a custom SSD from everything I've read. Including the memory channels. 12 vs up to 10, but usually 8. They are designed to be faster with their hardware. It's kind of an apples to oranges thing.

[Xplo1t]

I'm sure it's going to heavily read optimized, maybe even in spite of writes.  

[NewMaxx]

There will be plenty of drives faster than Sony's SSD, the compression is a different story. I cover it on Reddit but not here.

[Ertman]

7 hours ago, Gamer Schnitzel said:

 ..., hate the idea that my storage would be slower than the Sony SSD.

Why is this an issue? Not sure if Making sure you having a faster storage method than a console is really an issue, or at least one that is important enough to get flustered over.

[Doobeedoo]

The one you think of in upcoming consoles is completely different thing though. It's a fairly fast SSD in it self in general, but software and hardware around it's function is much more optimized to get more out of SSD better yet optimizing bottlenecks between SSD and other hardware how they communicate and stream data from it to other components that request it. 

 

Depends on budget just get a solid SSD with capacity you can afford and all good.