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Amazon is offering a really awesome deal on a 4TB Lexar SSD that you’re going to want for your game storage. The Lexar NM790 regularly costs $299 but you can currently pick it up for $249.49, saving about $50. To make things even better it comes with the heatsink attached. On top of that, it’s perfect for the PS5 because the overall size of the SSD with the heatsink fits inside the expansion slot of the PS5.
Not only that, but it meets Sony’s minimum requirements to be used as an expansion SSD. Those requirements state that it has to be PCIe Gen 4, which this is, and at least 5,500 MB/s for the sequential read speed is recommended. This has a sequential read speed of 7,400MB/s and a sequential write speed of 6,500MB/s, so it more than meets those requirements. It also means this drive is going to be blazing fast for games. Load times will be shorter and downloads and installs will be faster.
If you don’t have a PS5, that’s perfectly fine because this works great for PC as well. This drive also has a 5-year limited warranty and Lexar says it has 40% better power efficiency than DRAM cache-enabled PCIe Gen 4 drives. Honestly, the best part about this deal is not that it’s a PS5-compatible SSD. It’s that it’s a 4TB PS5-compatible SSD with a heatsink. The same size drive from brands like Seagate, Western Digital, and Samsung will most certainly cost you more. So if you need or want to upgrade your storage without spending as much, this is the drive to help you do it.