We are at the beginning of the generation, no games are fully utilizing the SSD. In the future when PS5 exclusives are using the SSD 6 priority levels, you will need a M.2 thats faster than 5.5GB because it only has 2 Priority levels. How much faster is unknown and it will probably depend on the game.
That's irrelevant, the manufacturer could not have altered their production line with newer firmware even though it was available to the public. It's not that rare, I built a PC a few months back, some parts had older firmware installed than the one available at their theoretical time of production.
I don't know how to check the firmware. I don't have a PC or know anyone that does.
What kind of shit post is this.. It's for his PS5, he can't use anything slower than Gen 4, a lot faster than those speeds as required by Sony. He's in his right to complain that a Gen 4 (for his PS5) is performing slower than advertised.
There are plenty of reports claiming the update did nothing to speed up the drive on ps5
It only doesn't work because sony put the limit in it.. wanna bet that almost all games run fine on 600MB/s?
Everyone is overthinking the whole ssd speed thing when is reality all it's going to give us is a faster loading time into a level
Highly doubtful at this point. 5.5 GB/s with only 2 priority levels is established as a base now (first parties included of course) by Sony's own admission by essentially retracting the earlier statement and giving up on their hyped tech innovation. I hate when companies compromise their vision like this and mislead expectations.
For 3rd party sure, they will focus on the lowest common denominator. But your fooling yourself if you think Sony Exclusives wont push the PS5 SSD/IO hard and take advantage of its 6 priority levels as we move further along in this Generation. The common denominator in all PS5s is its SSD/IO and most gamers wont even install M.2s. Also moving forward M.2s will be getting faster and cheaper, heck PCIE 5.0 M.2s are probably coming out next year, by then virtually all M.2s will be fast enough to compensate for only 2 Priority Levels.
Sony isnt going to break support on their support of the 5.5GB/s limit/factor.
Realistically just using the 5.5GB/s is already "revolutionary" its people reading into priority level differences and assuming Sony will either force M.2 buyers to buy PCIE5 to get max port speed when they themselves have said 5.5GB/s is enough.
Thats not what they said. The Said 5.5GB is the MINIMUM recommended speed. If the game does not run properly to then move the game to the PS5 internal SSD to run properly, Your ignoring that. This comes down to understanding the essence of a fixed closed platforms that consoles are. The common denominator for the PS5 that Exclusives will target is 5.5GB with 6 priority levels. If you want to expand then go ahead, Cerny is not lying or joking when he said comparing M.2s to the PS5 SSD is comparing apples to oranges. Since M.2s only have 2 Priority levels, it needs a little more speed to compensate, but thats on a game by game basis. If you think Sony Exclusives for the duration of the Generation are going to design games with 5.5gb read speeds and only use 2 Priority levels and ignore the other 4, because maybe 10-15% will have M.2s installed and even a smaller portion of that Pie may have a M.2 not fast enough for an exclusive game 3 years from now, again your fooling yourself.
So you think that Sony developed PS5's hardware heavy I/O complex and added a fast 5.5 GB/s SSD with all the resources and time requirements related to it just for masochistic reasons?
This is false, a M.2 with 5.5 GB read speed is the MINIMUM. If the game dont run properly then move it to the internal drive which they recommend.
The Bolded is a Mischaracterization, Just watch Cerny's Road to PS5, he talked about this. Exclusive down the line will to take advantage of having 6 priority levels, they are not going to just use 2 and ignore the other 4 till PS6 comes out. Thats a silly assesment.
Why not simply recommend a SSD with slightly higher read speed like 6 GB/s or 6.5 GB/s in line with the earlier statement to avoid issues and controversies like this then?
That's not gonna happen. Cerny said in his talk that because of the priority level difference (6v2) between the PS5's internal SSD & third-party NVMe SSDs, the M.2 you're installing needs a "little extra speed" due to the different approach.
Because not all M.2s are created equal.
Again this is a complete Mischaracterization and Misunderstanding the nature of having a Fixed platform. The PS5 was Designed with 6 Priority levels. It was designed with 6 priority levels to be used and not just for shits and giggles. IF YOU CHOOSE to expand your storage, then you can. No game currently are fully utilizing The PS5 SSD/IO, in 4 years when Exclusives will be pushing the SSD/IO hard, virtually all M.2s will be faster than 5.5GB read speeds of the PS5 to compensate for only having 2 Priority Levels.
What do you get with it in a PS5 though?Samsung 980 Pro owner here, using the latest firmware. Here's what I get:
