Who needs the upgraded storage of the PS5 Pro with SSD deals like this?

A Corsair MP600 Elite SSD on a blue color gradient with a GamesRadar+ Best Deal stamp on the left
(Image credit: Future / Duncan Robertson)

It seemed a little strange to me that while Mark Cerny talked us all through the performance boosts of the upcoming PS5 Pro, he forgot to mention that it will house an upgraded 2TB SSD inside it. That extra storage space migh🏅t help to justify the price of the console, but it doesn’t make a lot of sense to me as a selling point. The PS5 has had an additional SSD port in it since launch, and one ♔of the console’s best features has been the ability to boost its storage with drives that are actually faster than Sony’s custom SSD.

If the price tag of the PS5 Pro is out of reach for you, a storage upgಞrade to your existing PS5 is probably the best way to give your gaming life a quality of life boost without breaking the bank. Take this Corsair MP600 Elite 1TB SSD, for iꦏnstance. It’s currently discounted down from $94.99 to , and its integrated heatsink means installing it will take very little effort.

A $10 price cut isn’t exactly huge, but for one of the top-performing drives I’ve ever tested for PS5, this is a great price to pay. The 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best SSDs for PS5 have been a lot pricier in the last year, and you’re lucky if you can find a PS5-ready option for under $90 - even if it was released in 2022. This deal at Amazon brings an SS♉D made by a premium brand down to the cost that budget brands charge, so I can’t express how good an opportunity it is. 

Corsair MP600 Elite 1TB |
Save $10 - The listing at Amazon may claim that $84.99 is a discount down from $104.99, but I’ve been tracking the cost of this drive since its launch, and I’ve never seen it up that high. From the price history data I’m seeing, this drive’s average Amazon price sits closer to the $90 mark, but I only saw it drop to this price once so far, and that was during Prime Day.

Buy it if: 

✅You don’t want to spend $700 on a PS5 Pro
✅ You want an additional 1TB of storage space
✅ You want a drive that’s easy to install

Don't buy it if: 

❌ You have a detached heatsink already

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Should you buy the Corsair MP600 Elite?

Corsair MP600 Elite review photo from the side

(Image credit: Future / Duncan Robertson)

I test SSDS for a living, and so far, this is my favorite PS5 SSD to come out in 2024. It takes the benefits of the previous Corsair MP600 drives and boosts them to new heights, with faster read and write speeds and a beaut🐼iful design. 

In fact, the design of the integrated heatsink is one of the reasons I’d argue it stands out from the rest of the PS5 SSD crowd. There’s breathing space between this drive&r๊squo;s heatsink and its bottom, meaning more airflow can help𒅌 to keep it cool from both sides, which other drives neglect. 

What might surprise you is that this SSD actually boasts faster read and write speeds than the internal drive of the PS5, pulling in sequential read and write speeds of 7,038MB/s and 6,500MB/s when we tested it. That means that if you transfer your games onto this, they’ll actually load slightly faster than they would from the console’s built-in storage. Full disclosure, the PS5 is unable to divert power to the secondary M.2 bay in the same way that a gaming PC can, but that doesn’t stop some of the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best SSDS for gaming from producing brilliant loading times.

I don’t need to spell out to you that boosting your PS5’s storage for only $84 will save you a lot of money compared to buying an entire PS5 Pro. Personally, my PS5 runs games exactly how I want it to, and I’ve never seen it struggle to run games at 4K because console ports need to be stable in order to pass Sony’s certific🌟ation process. I haven’t had my hands on the PS5 Pro to really test out its performance boosts yet, but for now, I know which upgrade route I’d recommen🥃d.