We consider this SSD to be among our picks of the best PS5 SSDs you can buy in 2025, though it's worth keeping in mind this is one of the fastest, most advanced M.2 drives you can buy, so much so the PS5 can't make full use of it. IGN's Jacqueline Thomas notes in our roundup that "the PS5 only rated it for 6,335MB/s" when it was formatted for her console – well shy of the up to 14,800 and 13,400MB/s sequential read and write speeds Samsung advertises. That's not to say you shouldn't consider it, though. Why? The future.

Thomas explains that "While Sony is nowhere near announcing the PlayStation 6, there's a good chance that if the console does support user-upgradable storage, like the current-generation version, it'd use the PCIe 5 interface." So while this drive will work completely fine in a current PS5, it's ready to have its full potential unlocked by any future tech that supports it. Or, if you decide to switch to PC gaming, this would make a fantastic boot drive.

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Hannah Hoolihan is a freelancer who writes with the guides and commerce teams here at IGN.