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Rory Mellon

I added a new SSD to PS5 Pro to get faster loading times — here’s what happened

DualSense Controller and PS5 Pro in front of a TV screen.

The base PS5 already offered super fast loading times, but the PS5 Pro takes things a step further and shaves off a few extra seconds in some of the best PS5 games. That should be more than good enough, but gamers always want better. Therefore, hoping to reduce my time spent staring at loading screens even further, I upgraded my Pro console with one of the top-rated PS5 internal SSDs.

Back in the summer of 2021, I upgraded my launch PS5 with a WD_Black SN850 drive and found that loading times were often reduced (only by fractions of seconds in most cases, but it all adds up!), so this time I opted for the newer model of that same drive, the WD_Black SN850X.

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