XPG ADATA 8TB GAMMIX S70 Blade - Works with PlayStation 5, PCIe Gen4 M.2 2280 Internal Gaming SSD Up to 7,400 MB/s (AGAMMIXS70B-8000G-CS)

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Has been legit for PS5, no complaints for two years

Additional Update 8/16/2021: Adata pulled down the firmware update from their page, spent 2 days and fixed the issue adding it back to the site. I have confirmed that the newest firmware update program no longer bricks the 2TB drives. It does not update them either as it reports the drives running 3.2.F.P7 do not need updated. Tests have been ran by other users to confirm that the performance fixes from 3.2.9.1 are present in the 3.2.F.P7 firmware. So I can once again highly recommend this drive. The price has went up since when I purchased it for $309, but even at $329, this is still one of the best priced 2TB drives with this performance level available right now.Additional Update 8/7/2021: I tracked down the exact problem. The 2TB drives are shipping with firmware 3.2.F.P7 and if you attempt to update from 3.2.F.P7 to 3.2.9.V it will brick your drive. I have found a forum where a bunch of other people have also ended up with bricked drives and are being given the run around by ADATA support who is not acknowledging this problem. Only update to the latest firmware if your SSD comes with 3.2.7.3 on it. That will work fine. ADATA needs to acknowledge this issue and rapidly fix it, because right now their official firmware tool that anyone at all can download will brick their most expensive drives. Lowering to 2 star until this issue is fixed. A drive with an official software update that will kill it cannot be recommended.Review Update 8/7/2021: So I was told I should update the firmware on this drive as the latest version will provide better performance as well as thermals. Doing so completely bricked the SSD. I have two of them, and I stupidly thought this might be a fluke with one drive, so I also updated the firmware of the second drive and it bricked as well. It would proceed with the firmware update using their official tool, made it about 50% of the way through, then threw an error that said "Firmware update failed." then the drive itself changed to "Disconnect" and all the specs for it vanished.At this point the PC will no longer boot at all when the drive is plugged into it, and the PS5 will take 5 minutes to boot and will no longer detect the drive at all. So both of my drives are dead. I am going to send them back, order another, and ask adata support how I am supposed to update firmware.------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------By default this will not fit into the PS5 as the included heatsink is too tall, and the product description says that the heatsink cannot be removed. That is only partially true. The top part of the heatsink can easily be unscrewed and slid off without a problem, which is the part that makes it not fit into the PS5.The bottom part is the part that cannot be removed. Once removing the top part I was easily able to install a better quality low profile heatsink to replace it and then it fit inside the PS5 perfectly.So for those wondering, this can indeed be used in the PS5, just not out of the box. It requires an additional purchase of a slim heatsink to replace the tall beast that comes on this by default. I went with the icepc graphine coated copper heatsink that is 1.5mm tall.

I originally sat on getting an SSD because they were so pricey. I get the 1TB SSD aren’t to steep in price but I feel like with PS5 and next gen 1TB isn’t enough and will take all that space up quickly. Especially if you are a gamer like myself. Plus I had a external 2TB hard drive(from the PS4 generation) granted you could only play PS4 games on it and store PS5 games but not play them. I finally pulled the trigger seeing the 2TB XPG Gammix S70 Blade was on sale for $249. Had some Christmas money to spend so out of pocket I paid maybe $125. This thing is a beast and worth my money if you ask me. I didn’t use the heat sink that comes with the SSD and instead opted to get the MHQJRH M.2 2280 SSD Heatsink, Double Sided Heat Sink With Thermal Silicone Pad For PC/PS5. The only part that was difficult was putting the heatsink and SSD together and installing it into the PS5 and even that isn’t very difficult. There are a lot of how to videos online and even on Amazon. The heatsink I mentioned has a video of someone installing that heat sink with a SSD and I went off that. Worked like a charm and I was able to install it my first try. When you boot your PS5 your prompted with a message saying you have a M.2 SSD and it needs to be formatted. I formatted it and I was given a read speed of 6270. Which is 700 more than the SSD on your PS5 motherboard. When I went to settings and checked the storage it was there with my external hard drive and it said I had 2.05TB free. Good to see that you actually get 2TB and a tad bit more. First thing I did was transfer games from SSD to SSD. I took Horizon Zero Dawn moved it from internal to the newly installed SSD and it transferred in 10 seconds. No joke 10 seconds. Than I took The Uncharted Collection from my external hard drive and transferred it to the new SSD that one took a bit longer due to the external not being no where near as fast as a SSD but even that took about 7-10 minutes. Last I took three games from my library Hollow Knight, Darksiders 3 and Far Cry 6 and installed them(not transfer actually install from scratch) and those three games took about 20 minutes tops. That being said this is a affordable SSD and it is legit in speed. I played Horizon Zero Dawn and Far Cry 6 and load times were identical to the mother board SSD. Can’t complain I’m a happy camper with my purchase. I now have the internal SSD of 667GB with a 2TB extra storage installed along with a external hard drive giving me 4.6TB of space. Which I personally think is more than enough to last the PS5 generation. That being said do yourself a favor and get this product it’s worth every penny if you ask me. Hardest part is the installation process but even than, it’s not that difficult.