News Western Digital launches PS5-licensed 8TB SSD for $1,000 — PCIe 4.0 drive delivers speeds up to 7,300 MB/s

[Admin]

Western Digital launches an 8TB version of its SN850P SSD officially licensed for the PlayStation 5.

Western Digital launches PS5-licensed 8TB SSD for $1,000 — PCIe 4.0 drive delivers speeds up to 7,300 MB/s : Read more

 

[Roland Of Gilead]

'However, the 8TB version is much more expensive, coming in at $999.99 on the Western Digital page, almost thrice the price of the $349.99 4TB version.'

What the heck!!!!! Damn, that's some markup! 🤣

With that said, game installs are becoming insane. Surely the game devs can make use of better compression tech to reduce the size of the install?

I pity those who purchase the average gaming laptop or starter gamer desktop that come with 512gb main drive storage. You'll get the OS, and maybe 1 or 2 AAA titles on at a time, and having to keep about 20% of the drive free storage space so the drive won't gick itself.! Ugghh. Not good at all.

 

[tracker1]

Definitely not worth the squeeze. You can get 4tb and even a few 8tb models much cheaper cost per tb.