How About a New PS5 SSD Upgrade? That'll Be $3,000

Thanks but no thanks

Do we even need to mention how rediculous this is? 😂🙈 I've realised a long time ago that you don't need to have all your games installed at the same time.

That's an insane price, but also who the hell needs 8TB of storage space for your PS5?? Do you literally have every game you ever bought installed simultaneously? Or maybe just the Call of Duty app...

The doomsday prepper's hard drive.

I just delete a game when I need space. Really not that difficult.

Glad I got a 4tb when I did. Although it is getting pretty close to being full...

Still waiting to get a SD Express for the Switch 2 at a reasonable price. Very annoying that 1tb of onboard storage isn't the norm yet. But I guess the Switch would cost $1000 right now if it were.

Their 2Tb version costs around the same as my 2Tb SSD containing PS5 Pro cost me...

@wildcat_kickz Raises hand

With that I could buy 3 PS5 pros and still have money left, ridiculous!

@wildcat_kickz You would be shocked my 2TB is full.

The PS6 should contain just 1Tb, and an expansion bay (similar to PS5/Pro) ready for when prices come down.

Just... uninstall your games...

Wow... A 2TB Samsung 980 Pro cost me £150 at the PS5's launch. That's insane 😂

@RoomWithaMoose At the prices not in 3000 years. I payed 250 for 2TB.

Even for today, those prices are insane. I bought a 2TB just a couple months ago for $305. The same drive is up to $370, and these jokers want $760 for theirs? Come on.

@Flaming_Kaiser I know...

All these other commenters saying, 'just uninstall your games.' Meanwhile, I'm so annoyed constantly doing just that on the S2 that I actively play less games than I otherwise would.

I completely gave up on Metroid Prime 4 just because I really wanted to cruise around in Mario Kart World for an evening.

EDIT: And Air Riders, which I was planning on playing on-and-off until I deleted it for Dragon Quest III. Also definitely would've played more Mario Kart if it wasn't uninstalled for most of the last 6 months.

...Does no one here just have games they like playing in short bursts?

@PsBoxSwitchOwner

Same. I only play 1 or 2 games at a time. Why do I need 50 installed at once.

If you really need extra storage, just get a cheap 1TB external HDD and transfer games from it to your console as you have breakfast or something.

Haha 🤣😂 hahaha 🤣😂
Absolutely bonkers haha 😂😆

Get a 1TB Harddrive. Move games back and forth for under £35.

Or just download a few games at a time.

I have 4tb and I'm always borderline full 😂 that 8tb is insane, who is realistically buying that

@Flaming_Kaiser @RoomWithaMoose I also have a 2TB expansion, which is full, but 8TB seems craaaazy haha.

@themightyant
Quite agree - and yes, it is weird how no one considers the extra storage (the base is back to 667Gb usable I think).

It really is no wonder Sony had to put the Pro's price up when they did, but I do wonder if Sony wish they had gone with 1Tb for the Pro - not that they could have really forseen just how much damage AI was going to do to prices.

@1970sGamer As someone with a vast digital game collection on 4 different platforms and a personal media server, I have been interested in 8+tb SSDs for years. I just didn't have money for them before — and DEFINITELY don't have money for them now.

I don't really see what's disingenuous about citing an actual price in a headline. Maybe if you can find cheaper options, at which point you can argue that price isn't actually representative of an 8tb SSD. But that doesn't change that this specific series costs that much.

Usually the only people that buy drives bigger then 4tb are people that do a ton of data backups/archiving, but they find deals on drives and don't usually run to the newest, most expensive drive.

I've seen them find 20tb drives for just under a thousand dollars in some cases.

I got a 4tb for £230. It's now over £500 for the same ssd. I got the Samsung 990 pro 4tb. So the £3000 one would be kinda pointless. That's more than the cost of everything in my pc.

I used to have an external HDD to store all of my games and would then just transfer them across to my PS5 when I wanted to play a particular game.

But this seems like an easier option to have all of them installed so I'll probably buy 2 of the 8tb (just in case one fails).

Sure glad I bought a Samsung 2TB SSD for my PS5 a few years ago. Price has now doubled and then some. Ready for this AI Bubble to pop any day now.

Well that costs more then buying 4 PS5 Pros!! 5 actually if you use the 'non-discount' price.

Madness!!!

The people in charge of pricing this are beyond delusional. You could build ( and I have) a high end gaming pc for just above that price. More of the globalist “ everything’s a pc/xbox” schemers and scammers. I really enjoy my ps5 and have a WD black 2 Terra ssdrive. But even then, I only did it cause I got a near 50% discount on a new one. There is NOTHING that justifies adding an 3k part to a 500-600$ console.

I got a different brand 2 TB SSD with heat sink for my ps5 back in 2023 and absolutely loved it. Got it on sale for $120.

Fast-forward to April 17 of this year, and the SSD fails. I tried to do what I could to see if I could reformat it but nothing works.

I basically had to cold call RMA back to the original company in hope that they would honor the warranty. I’ve read reports that they try to lowball you or that they refund you for the original purchase price instead of replace now that the prices of skyrocketed.

Well, needless to say last week they shipped a replacement and it’s supposed to get here today. It would be a huge blessing if this works. There’s no way I could get another one with all the price increases.

There is zero reason to need a hard drive that big. You can only play one game at a time.

Digital hoarders are almost as bad as collectors. Almost. At least digital hoarders actually play the games .

@PercyChuggs digital hoarding isn't accomplished with 8tb.

November of last year i NEARLY bought a 4TB drive from Costco, was on sale for $250. I'm so kicking myself now for not pulling the trigger.

That's absolutely insane. I purchased; 4 SSD last year about 22TB for less $1,200 !!

This is nuts!! It's like these companies are doing the best to push gamers anyway or make gaming a high class hobby

@wildcat_kickz I have 8tb and have about 190 games installed at all times. Still have to clear space to install new ones from time to time, but if you have ***** network that takes hours to download a decent game it's a solution. Not for that price tho. It doesn't even fit all of the games I can download since I have accumulated about 500 games from ps essential + own bought + subscription access.

Wow. I have 8tb, and paid about £500 for it a couple of years ago, I would never pay that silly price for it.
As for the naysayers who say 'just uninstall' everything. No thanks. I like the freedom to play what I want, when I want. Not redownload something I feel like playing. It's convenient.

Its cheaper to just delete games and re-download them again

@Mes_Urson Assuming you don't have metered Internet, sure. It's not fast or convenient, though.

Glad I got an SSD over a year ago. I paid way less than half for what it costs today. Who are these idiots going to get money from if all the jobs are given to AI?

SanDisk is sniffing their farts a bit too much. A quick amazon search shows a couple 1tb ssd gen 4 with read and write speeds of 7000+, for $165ish.

Quick search of my amazon history shows I bought my 1tb on 5th march, 2022... for £129.99 or around $175 at current exchange rate. And now it more than doubles after 4 years at $380 (217%!)?

I knew it was going up, but that's mental.

@RobN Oh I want to increase the storage but it's a bit pricey out there at the moment.
Luckily I've got 1gb broadband and no limits.
But I'd definitely like to increase the storage eventually

Uninstall your games

Realistically, who would spend so much for this?

I've needed an 8TB SSD for my PS5 Pro for a while now. But not at those prices. My $400 4TB SSD will have to do.

I'm glad, I upgraded the storage on all of my devices when I could.

I thought an 8TB SSD for $900 was crazy a few years ago. These prices are insane.

I'm one of those weirdos who likes having all of my games, downloaded, and ready to go at all times.

This would be perfect but, $3k for 8TB 😡😡🤬

Glad my pro has 2gb is plenty to have a lot installed and room to move stuff about.

The price of the 2gb ssd above is most of the price as the pro and makes it seem quite a deal these days unbelievably!

Just looked at my B&H invoice from July 2025 (yes, less than a year ago) ... before tax, I paid $639.99 for my WD Black 8TB M2 SSD - insane that it's more than 4 times that now! Guess I won't be buying another PS5 anytime soon (I still have two PS4 Pro's I was hoping to upgrade).

SanDisk are over priced crap anyway it's one of the biggest brands on Amazon for fake USB sticks

I don't have an internal SSD upgrade. However, since I do own a half dozen or so 100GB+ games, I recently formatted a 1TB external SSD as USB Extended Storage. So far moving games off and on is a breeze.

@PercyChuggs do they really play the games "hoarded" though?

As a collector and a "digital hoarder", I can safely say ive yet to break 50% of my digital games that still is going up as a total,. yet the physical i buy always get priority; whether that be "actual" physical, or the digital equivalent as I want to keep my copy mint.

@DTfearTheBEARD thats fine tbh. If you dont know what you want to play on any given day / hour; then having "everything" downloaded is a great call. Not bashing you, but if you need 8TB, thats a lot of TB though 🤣

I thought i was being coy when I bought a 1TB gor my base launch day PS5 and then rimmed it into a Pro, but I can see some use cases via the comments that obviously would require this type of size.

And that's part of the problem. Apart from the AI problems; it's only people that "need" this type of space that will buy them.

If you don't need it, I think personally for anyone even with an addiction, 4TB is more than enough.

I'll take a rough guess that can be anything from 200 "Massive" games to 20k "indie" games?

I may have my maths completely wrong, but thats still a lot of games 🤣

If you need one, great. Your subsidising the rest of us, and thank you. But if you keep a relatively tidy stash of digital, this story is really nothing to worry about.

@datamonkey your ps5 has 2gb? How does the OS run? 🤣😝

what are companies going to do when consumers can’t afford this stuff anymore?

@LiamCroft these aren't new there a rebranding of existing ssd's with SanDisk name change they've been around for a few years only the heatsink has been changed

@RoomWithaMoose Apples to oranges. Switch 2 has a 256GB drive, PS5 has 1TB & the Pro has 2TB.

@Slideaway1983 if you have a decent collection of games, you'd be surprised how fast 8TB of storage goes.

I have an 8TB HDD for my PS4 games, that I've used since the PS4 Pro days. It's almost full with a little less than 1TB left. Around 300 games downloaded on there.

For my launch day PS5 on the first year (2021) I bought a 1TB SSD. I then upgraded to a 2TB the following year (2022) and 4TB the year after that (2023). I knew SSD storage would be an issue early on, so I prepared by buying a 5TB HDD for PS5 games that I have Platinumed (Ghost of Tsushima, Horizon Forbidden West, Spider-Man 2, ect)

It doesn't help that I'm also subscribed to PS Plus Premium. So of course, i'm downloading games on there. Usually every month.

At these prices, I don't need to upgrade that bad. I'll work with what I have, which is more than most. I know.

For the people who think "just re-download delete and re-download your games over and over"
What do you think your cloud stored games are being downloaded from?
You don't think that's adding to the problem?! Unless you are re-downloading from cold storage, you are making the energy crisis, data storage and internet prices worse. Deleting, downloading and deleting 50gb+ files ad nauseum has a hidden long term cost. Not to mention wearing at those now ridiculously expensive drives way faster.

@DTfearTheBEARD totally get everything you are saying there - even if its not what I do / would do; its your console and youve explained it all relatively well.

But yes, the "need" for a larger one at today's costs are slightly less than they would have been even a year or two ago, now.

Hopefully people like you that actively want one will be abke to get one soon, but obviously I think its safe to say that theyre not coming down anytime soon. I'd wager unless something massive happens, we've got another 5 years of this mess until someone comes up with the "killer" AI app; if not longer.

Entertainment and the consumption of, will suffer in all forms, in many ways because of this niche bubble.

@Slideaway1983 haha oops it was a long day!

@datamonkey I gathered! 🤣

Crikey! Glad I got my Crucial 310 1TB for £80 in Jan this year before that AI bull took off.

i prefer buy 3 PS5 PRO,
1 full with indie games and VR
2 full PS4 Games
3 Full PS5 Games

Man, people were buying PS5 Pro disc drives for $1000 🤣 there will be of course some people willing to buy these memory cards too.

@RoomWithaMoose I play most games in one full go but I still understand where your coming from. The amount of times I didn't start up a game because I had to install it and just not felt like doing that.

@sanderson72 I still can't sit because they took me hard with these insane prices.

@Netret0120 Why because i still like the option to install stuff.

@wildcat_kickz And I found the old prices expensive already....

@Flaming_Kaiser Ok, then take it up with Rockstar, not Push Square.

@wildcat_kickz To much effort.

@Flaming_Kaiser Whoops. Actually got my wires crossed on different articles. My bad.