On Black Friday, which PS5 SSD should you buy?

Now that Sony has made the SSD slot available to anyone, Black Friday PS5 SSD bargains will be in high demand, and more people than ever will be asking which PS5 SSD to buy this Black Friday. External drives are well-known, but the unexpected addition of internal, NVMe M.2 SSDs to the huge range of storage solutions already available means the possibilities will be more diverse than ever, and the offers will be more extensive than ever.

The year 2021 has really become the year of the SSD when it comes to consoles. That’s in no small part due to both new-gen consoles adopting the storage tech as the primary drive within them, but we’ve seen moves from HDD to SSD even in the external market. The prices of the latter keep coming down, and it’s now close enough that SSDs present much better value overall.

Look for names like WD BLACK SN850, Samsung 980 PRO, and Seagate FireCuda 530 for your internal top dogs in terms of quick-fire references and knowing what top types of PS5 SSD to consider buying this Black Friday.

However, it’s the internal drives that will be the best PS5 SSD options for many. They are slightly more expensive, but the fact that they connect straight to the PS5’s motherboard, and they offer speeds and performances that comfortably outperform even the best external SSD candidates means they start to pull away as the best PS5 storage options. However, the real clincher is that you can play PS5 games directly from an internal SSD. This is, of course, a big difference as on external PS5 SSDs, you can only store PS5 games (and store and play PS4 games).

Be it internal or external, this year’s sales season is going to be a wild one for PS5 SSD options – they’ll likely be some of the best Black Friday PS5 deals outright. But when it comes down to it, which PS5 SSD should you buy this Black Friday?

However, the external market is still booming, and a quality external SSD can easily be one of the best PS5 external hard drives going and serve you incredibly well. After all, we are at the pinnacle of the PS4 game library – and games are still being made for the older console. There’s perhaps a greater need than any time before to have somewhere dedicated for your PS4 games while you have your PS5 ones on the machine itself.

Internal PS5 SSDs are where some real hot action is going to be in this year’s sales. However, cutting through it all and knowing exactly which one is best for you is going to be more tricky.

With so many different write speeds, transfer speeds, durability levels, and other factors on the market, actually working out which PS5 SSD you should be aiming for this Black Friday is easier said than done. However, the first thing you need to do is look to Sony’s recommended specs for an internal SSD – this will immediately cut some wheat from the chaff and get you looking at the right drives.

Using the 1TB capacity as the sweet spot, as we expect it will be for most, you’ll then find yourself likely looking at a handful of more premium models that are often safely above the $200 mark – the WD BLACK SN850, Samsung 980 PRO, and the Seagate FireCuda 530 – and a handful that fall under it – the Patriot Viper VP4300 and the Gigabyte Aorus 7000s, for example. Prices of all of these units have wildly fluctuated but we’d expect these all to get handsome price cuts during the sales seasons. Thus, it could really come down to price and budge – all of these drives are high-quality, meeting every criterion of Sony’s and having blistering speeds to offer top performance.

Should you buy an internal PS5 SSD this Black Friday? Given the importance of sticking to Sony’s restrictions and the strict parameters that SSDs have to meet, it will be easy to cross-reference any PS5 SSDs you find on the day. However, if it comes back down to that internal vs external choice again here are some points to think about when weighing up whether to buy an internal PS5 SSD this Black Friday.

Buy an internal SSD this Black Friday if: The best possible SSD option is a priority

You need loads of PS5 games at your fingertips You have a healthy budget

Outright speed and performance are deal breakers for you  

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