Silicon Power A60S Pro

Sony recommends a PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive with at least 5,600 MB/s sequential read speed for PS5 expansion, and the A60S Pro's PCIe 4.0 interface puts it in the right class to attempt it. Because it's a value-tier drive rather than a flagship like Samsung's 990 Pro, you may see slightly lower peak speeds, and you'll still need a heatsink installed inside the console.

Silicon Power's budget PCIe 4.0 drives are generally DRAM-less designs that rely on the Host Memory Buffer (HMB) feature of modern PCs instead of onboard DRAM. That keeps the price down, but sustained heavy-write performance typically trails DRAM-equipped drives such as WD's Black SN850X.

Yes, NVMe SSDs are backward compatible, so it will run in a PCIe 3.0 slot at Gen3 speeds of roughly 3,500 MB/s or less rather than its full Gen4 rate. That makes it a reasonable drop-in upgrade for an older system that only has an M.2 Gen3 connection.

Silicon Power typically backs its consumer SSDs with a multi-year limited warranty (around 5 years on recent models), which is on par with bigger brands like Crucial and WD. Register the drive on Silicon Power's site and keep your invoice, since refurb or gray-market units may not qualify.