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Finally enough space for your PS5 games! In our article about the Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVM ™ M.2 SSD , you can find out:

  • What advantages the Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD offers
  • How you install the Samsung SSD into your PlayStation 5
  • How quickly you can move games from the internal memory of the PS5 to your Samsung SSD-and vice versa
  • How rapidly your scores of the Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD load

Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD: Fast memory expansion for the PS5

With enormous data transfer speeds of up to 7,000 MB/s via PCI® Gen 4.0 X4, the Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD is a more than worthy addition to the internal PS5 storage. Loading times are radically shortened and you will hardly notice a difference to the internal SSD of the PS5. If you notice a difference, this is even a positive nature: The Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD is even a little superior to the PS5 hard drive In some games, as it will turn out in our tests in this article.

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  • Order Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD 1 TB from MediaMarkt-111 euros
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Heatsink for optimal cooling: perfectly equipped for use as a PS5 SSD

The Heatsink variant of the SSD is the all-round carefree model from Samsung and has an integrated heat sink , which ensures consistently low system temperatures. Even with long game sessions on the console, the performance always remains stable, since heat-dependent performance losses fail due to the optimal cooling. PS5 manufacturer Sony explicitly recommends a model with such a heatink for SSD memory extensions to PlayStation 5, which you still have to grow with many other memory models. With the Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD, you get a finished device for immediate installation.

The Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD is available in sizes 1 TB (Buy now from MediaMarkt!) And 2 TB (buy now from MediaMarkt!).

The Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD installation in the PS5-that’s that easy

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You need that : In addition to the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD or Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD Heatsink, a slot screwdriver and a cross-slotted screwdriver of size 1. You also need a tidy table with enough space.

SSD install: Part 1

  1. Switch off the console and remove all cables.
  2. Put the PS5 on the table.
  3. screw the round stand with the slot screwdriver, also called the base.
  4. Put the PS5 on the table so that the drive points upwards from you.
  5. With the right hand, reaches the lower right corner of the thick white cover and with the right to the upper left corner.
  6. Leave the white cover slightly while you push it left towards the drive. Attention: If you do it right, you only need very little strength for it!
  7. Take the cover.

In our picture gallery you can see what it looks like with us:

SSD install: Part 2

  1. Removes the screw from the gray metal cover of the SSD expansion slot with the cross slot screwer.
  2. Removes the screw and spacers (resembles a screw nut) inside.
  3. Put the Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD (now buy from MediaMarkt!) From diagonally in the top into the notification of the expansion connection so that the contacts fit together and press it in.
  4. position the spacer where you want to screw the SSD later.
  5. Tips the SSD down so that it lies on the spacer.
  6. screw the SSD tightly on the spacer.
  7. Brings up the coverage of the expansion slot and screwed it back to the cross slot screwdriver.
  8. Put the cover for about two centimeters moved to the left onto the PS5 and push it back into position. A click.
  9. Attached the base again with the slot screwdriver.

In our picture gallery you can see how you have to do:

you move games from the PS5 SSD to the Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD-and vice versa

How quickly do you move games to your new M.2 SSD? In the editorial test with six PS5 games we checked how long the process takes-and how long it takes until games from the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD (now buy from MediaMarkt!) ending internal memory of the PS5.

Note: We carried out the loading times tests with the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD without heatink. However, apart from the integrated heat sink, the variant with Heatsink has the same specifications, which is why the loading and copying times with the Heatsink version should be similarly fast or even a little faster: Especially in longer operation, optimized cooling can have a positive effect on performance.

Control Ultimate Edition

  • Move to the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 23.19 seconds
  • Move to the internal memory of the PS5: 01: 56.55 minutes

Marvel’s Spider-Man Miles Morales

  • Move to the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 34.77 seconds
  • Move to the internal memory of the PS5: 03: 00.03 minutes

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

  • Move to the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 31.02 seconds
  • Move to the internal memory of the PS5: 02: 36.24 minutes

Returnal

  • Move to the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 47.09 seconds
  • Move to the internal memory of the PS5: 04: 03.42 minutes

Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Move to the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 37.96 seconds
  • Move to the internal memory of the PS5: 03: 29.57 minutes

A plague tale: innocence

  • Move to the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 28.70 seconds
  • Move to the internal memory of the PS5: 02: 29.95 minutes

So you can make your well-filled internal PS5 hard drive and move games to the Samsung 980 Pro Heatsink NVME ™ M.2 SSD (buy now from MediaMarkt!). From there you gamble thanks to the top speed. Playing games on the internal memory of the PS5 takes noticeably longer. Meanwhile, you can get something to nibble. In our picture gallery below you can see how you format the newly built-in SSD and postpone a game from the PS5 memory.

faster than Sony: The Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ SSD loads your PS5 game stands

How well can the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD keep up with the internal memory of the PS5 when it comes to loading times ? We also carried out this test with six different PS5 games-the result surprised!

Control Ultimate Edition

  • Load the score (Welcome to the Oldest House) with the PS5 SSD: 08.73 seconds
  • With the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 07.55 seconds invite you

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales

  • Load the score (start) with the PS5 SSD: 05.41 seconds
  • With the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 05.40 seconds invite you

Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

  • Load the score (recruit newcomer) with the PS5 SSD: 02.68 seconds
  • With the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 02.66 seconds invite you

Horizon Zero Dawn

  • Load the score (a gift from the past: find a way out) with the PS5 SSD: 29.83 seconds
  • With the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 26.82 seconds invite you

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Chivalry II

  • Load the score (tutorial) with the PS5 SSD: 06.87 seconds
  • With the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 06.73 seconds invite you

A plague tale: innocence

  • Load the score (the inheritance of the runes: collect stones for the slingshot): 15.75 seconds
  • With the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD: 15.31 seconds invite you

In all cases, the Samsung 980 Pro NVME ™ M.2 SSD loads a little more faster than the arrow fast PS5 SSD **. As a rule, this is only about milliseconds, but in some games we noticed the difference and not just measured.

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