Cerny Games president and frequent Sony Interactive Entertainment collaborator Mark Cerny is well known to many PlayStation fans for his efforts in helping shape various generations of PlayStation consoles as lead designer.
Following the anticipation that has brewing over the last few days of the PS5’s SSD expansion slot finally being unlocked as part of a beta software update alongside various manufacturers advertising their compatible wares, Cerny today revealed his NVMe SSD of choice by confirming that he has purchased not one, but two of Western Digital’s WD_BLACK SN850 drives to bolster the capacity of his next-gen games console.
While Cerny didn’t indicate what size he purchased in his initial tweet, PS5 owners who opt for Western Digital’s WD_BLACK SN850 drive can expect sequential read performance of up to 7,000 MB/s and sequential write performance of at least 4,100 MB/s.
Cerny purchased the heat sink version, which makes sense, being that Sony’s support document explicitly advised that the SSDs used for the PS5’s expansion slot should have a heat sink installed to maintain lower operating temperatures.
Our solution to our very active two gamer PS5 household? His-and-hers SSDs 🙂
— Mark Cerny (@cerny) August 1, 2021
Couple of awesome options for 7000MB/s, ended up putting my $$ down on this one. Going to be SWEEET!!! pic.twitter.com/6TuqPwK49x
Our solution to our very active two gamer PS5 household? His-and-hers SSDs 🙂 Couple of awesome options for 7000MB/s, ended up putting my $$ down on this one. Going to be SWEEET!!!
Source: Mark Cerny