Western Digital released an 8TB version of its WD_Black SN850P NVMe SSD that’s officially licensed for the PlayStation 5 console. This doubles the capacity of the previous largest WD_Black SSD for the PS5, which was 4TB. 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.
The 8TB version is the largest possible SSD you can get from WD_Black for the PlayStation 5, but it’s a bit slower in sequential reads compared to its stablemates by about 100 MB/s. However, it’s unlikely that you’ll notice this difference in actual gaming performance. All other metrics, including random read and write performance and endurance, fall within the expected values.
