INLAND 4TB Gaming NVMe SSD 内蔵ソリッドステートドライブ PS5用

I purchased this drive at the end of 2022 to swap into my launch model PS5, whose 2TB expansion drive was quickly filling up. I put the 2TB drive into our living room PS5, which my wife and visitors use, and then put this new 4TB drive into my game room console. The drive works great, and I can not tell any difference in gaming performance between this budget drive and the Samsung that I had before it. If you need an expansion drive for PS5, this one is really hard to beat for the price! The price with & without the heatsink for these drives used to be a considerable enough difference that I used my own heatsink for both PS5's, but as of the time of this review, it seems it's only a few extra dollars to get one of these INLAND drives with a heatsink included. May as well pay the small extra and get the heatsink with it. It's been over 4 months since I installed this drive and there's no signs of slowdown yet. The drive has 1.75TB of free space with 52 games installed on it. Some of the games are huge, at over 100GB each, so this drive has been a blessing! I should have enough space between this one and the internal to get me through the generation without having to delete too much at any given time, which is great for those of us stuck with data caps.

My laptop is not gen 4. In fact, it is gen 3 by 2 lanes, so I top out at around 1700MB/s sequential anyway. And q1t1 (which gives you "snappiness") is fine, around 65 like most mid range drives. But at the time of my purchase (about $440) this was the least expensive 4tb drive, period. The gen 3 version was a few dollars more and did not stand out in any regard. No brainier! The ratings are good, no widespread failure options in the news, and if I upgrade to a notebook with pcie 4 in a few years, will I care about any modest performance gains a second or third generation of pcie 4.0 controllers will deliver? Probably not a lot. Maybe in two years I will want an 8tb, maybe. Of course, there is workload to consider. I do some dev work that benefits from ultra low latency; that is not this drive. But for upgrading notebooks that currently live in 2022? It's fine performance, and currently among the best prices, some days the best price, and the high parallelism from so many nand chips puts it pretty close to the sequential max for pcie 4.0. That is a lot of future proofing. Why wouldn't you if you need 4tb? Well, there is a low end 4tb sata out there (if you can use sata) for substantially less, but most of the 4tb sata drives I would trust are in the same price range as this. So don't do sata unless you absolutely have to. Will nand prices fall further? In the next few months (3rd and 4th quarter of 2022)? There is your only reason. Some analysts expect prices to fall further. It is a gamble, but if you need an nvme drive today to extend an older laptop that is full? All go. Update: a few weeks after purchase, I see there is a Teamgroup pcie 3.0 4tb out there for about 90 or 100 dollars less, for 4tb. If you are pretty sure that will do you for a few years it may be a meaningfully better price for effectively the same performance assuming you will be on pcie 3.0 for the long haul. But if you plan to upgrade to a 4.0 PC in the coming year, this may be better. Your call.

This is the second time in four years that one of these Inland 4TB M.2 drives overheated (like, too hot to touch), and under entirely different circumstances. First one was in an external enclosure with a heat sink over Thunderbolt on a Mac; this new one failed within a few hours of various sustained read/writes when installed in a PC on Windows 11 (on motherboard with heat sink top and bottom). I gave them a second chance figuring the newer generation would be more reliable... nope. And with the datacenter-driven disgusting pricing of components, it's particularly bad to be offering such a product. And a six year warranty? Good luck unless you happen to live near a Micro Center location – they won't do RMAs or any type of support via internet or mail. There's no store within 300 miles of me. Ridiculous.

Easy to install, it needs a heatsink which you have to purchase separately. They’re cheap though, I got another brand heatsink for my PS5 for like $10. Runs great for a PlayStation, copies data fast and haven’t had any issues with storage or games crashing since installed.

After much debate, I decided to buy this SSD that cost more than my PS5. But at least I don't have to worry about storage anymore. PS5 tested it's speed at 6,300MB/s. So it's not the fastest, but fast. I only tested it once, but I do know the speed check results on PS5 can vary. Any ways, just as a gamer and not an in depth "product reviewer," I don't notice any difference between the integrated drive or this drive. Yes, it takes much longer to copy data to the integrated drive than it does to copy from it. But, I don't really care about that. Amy way, installed the Sabrent heatsink on top and it's running great. This drive wasn't the cheapest 4tb SSD, but it wasn't the most expensive either. Since exceeding PS5's requirements for a drive, being unable discern any difference between the manufacturer installed drive and this drive, and eliminating my needs for more storage, I'm happy with this purchase. However, prices will always fall on tech. So, if you want to save money, you should probably wait for holiday sales or wait a year or two before buying.