There are more official SONY certifications, so you don’t need to worry regarding buying SSDs for Playstation 5.
Playstation 5 allows users to install M.2 SSD by themselves, which is also a selling point that many SSD brands have emphasized for their own products in the past, but now Sony has cooperated with Western Digital to launch the first officially certified SSD. The market has some different revisions.
Basically, the officially certified SSD belongs to the WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD, the difference is that there is an official Sony certification mark.
The M.2 SSD, whose full name is WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5 Consoles, provides 1TB and 2TB options, adopts PCIe Gen4 NVMe specification, and its maximum sequential read and write is 7000MB/s and 5100MB/s respectively. As for the 4K random read and write part, Probably less important for Playstation 5.
Perhaps, the firmware of this M.2 SSD is optimized for Playstation 5, so it is also emphasized on the website that you should not use the WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5 Consoles in a NAS or Server environment.
The 1TB version of the WD Black SN850 NVMe SSD for PS5 Consoles is priced at $169.99, while the 2TB version is $279.99, which is $20 more than the uncertified version.
