PlayStation 5 – Sony (and possibly Microsoft as well…) has been secretive about how we can expand the storage space of the(ir respective) next-gen console, as it might not be as simple as it currently is with the PlayStation 4 and the Xbox One.

Tweaktown reports that Patriot Gaming is ready to introduce its Viper PXD M.2 SSD. It is capable of reaching up to 1 GB/s read and write speeds in the NVMe 1.3 protocol, thanks to the Phison E13T controller. The SSD is using a USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C interface. In short, this is a pretty quick external SSD solution, and Patriot is ready to showcase it to the public at PAX East, which Sony has confirmed to skip. Here, they might showcase this SSD in a PlayStation 4, running Marvel’s Spider-Man, one of the best 2018 PlayStation 4-exclusives.

The PlayStation 4 Pro uses a USB 3.1 Gen1 Type-A port, which is important because the port’s limit is 625 MB/s. It means that Patriot’s new SSD will be limited by Sony’s console. It’s your typical bottleneck situation: the hardware is capable of doing more, but other components limit it. Still, it’s suspicious, as even Sony used Marvel’s Spider-Man to showcase the reduced loading times.

Patriot’s press release calls the Viper PXD „the next generation of portable storage solutions,” and it „bridges the gap between USB 3.0 flash drives and high-speed PCIe based SSDs” by bringing a high-speed SSD storage as a plug-and-play external device. It will be available in capacities between 512 GB and 2 TB.

And it’s not even the first such fast SSD. Previously, we wrote about Samsung’s 980 QVO SSD, which is rumoured to be the internal SSD of the PlayStation 5. If the games will require a certain amount of speed, then the external storage devices need to pick up the pace, too. Patriot might be doing just that.

Source:PSL

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