Western Digital WD_BLACK SN850X Solid State Drive

Yes, this specific model includes a pre-installed heatsink. It is designed to keep the drive cool during intense gaming or heavy workloads, which is particularly important for maintaining consistent performance.

Yes, the WD_BLACK SN850X with the heatsink meets all of Sony's requirements for PS5 storage expansion. It is a plug-and-play solution that fits directly into the console's M.2 expansion slot.

This drive uses a PCIe Gen4 interface. While it is backward compatible with PCIe Gen3 slots, you will not achieve the maximum advertised speeds of 7300 MB/s unless your motherboard and CPU support PCIe Gen4.

This drive has an endurance rating of 600TBW (Terabytes Written). In practical terms, this means you can write 600 terabytes of data to the drive over its lifespan before you are likely to experience wear-related issues, which is more than enough for typical gaming and daily productivity use.

No, this drive is plug-and-play on Windows 8.1, 10, and 11. It uses standard NVMe drivers built into the operating system, so you won't need to manually install additional software for it to be recognized.

The high random read and write IOPS mean the drive is excellent at handling many small files simultaneously. You will notice this most when booting up your operating system, launching large applications, or loading complex game levels quickly.