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The highest capacity Optimus GX Pro 850P thrust almost tops nan $3,000 mark.
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Getting adjacent to maxing retired your PS5's SSD? You person a fewer choices: either commencement deleting immoderate of those meaty RPGs, pronto, aliases get utilized to paying nan benignant of money SanDisk is charging for its new, officially licensed retention description drives.
The Optimus GX Pro 850P NVMe SSD is among a number of caller SanDisk drives that person been rebranded from nan erstwhile WD_Black naming convention. Designed pinch nan PS5 and PS5 Pro successful mind, it's disposable successful 1TB, 2TB, 4TB and 8TB variants, pinch nan top-end exemplary priced astatine a genuinely eye-watering $2,960. And according to SanDisk's website, that's really nan reduced price, down from its regular value of $3,700. To put that into perspective, that's much than 3x nan value of a PS5 Pro successful nan US correct now, which already includes a 2TB SSD consecutive retired of nan box.
Even nan $760 2TB exemplary (reduced from $950) is much than $100 much costly than nan modular PS5 pinch a disc drive. The Optimus GX Pro 850P is simply a PCle 4.0 thrust pinch Read/Write speeds of 7,300/6,300MB/s and a heatsink design. These specs make it sound suspiciously akin (if not wholly identical) to nan WD_Black SN850X NVMe SSD that nan 850P is seemingly replacing, and it didn't return maine agelong to observe that nan 8TB exemplary of nan erstwhile thrust was on sale for nether $600 conscionable past year.
As a reminder, nan Optimus GX Pro 850P NVMe SSD is launching amid a world representation crisis, and nan supra prices should springiness you an thought of conscionable really retired of power nan RAMpocalypse is correct now. As Digital Foundry notes, a waste value connected SanDisk's caller $3,700 SSD that would bring it backmost down to nan $600 ballpark fig its predecessor has gone for successful nan past 12 months would correspond a hilarious 84 percent discount.
Price rises are unluckily each nan rage successful gaming hardware correct now, pinch nan volatile economical scenery and AI-driven scarcity of components shouldering nan blasted each time. A fewer months agone Sony hiked up nan value of nan PS5, PS5 Pro and nan PS Portal, aft Microsoft did nan same pinch Xbox consoles doubly successful 2025.
Nintendo resisted for longer than most, but past period it raised nan value of nan Switch 2 by $50 successful nan US, pinch nan caller $500 value group to return effect successful September. And nan astir melodramatic hike we've seen is connected Valve's Steam Deck lineup, pinch prices jacked up by arsenic overmuch arsenic $300 for nan 1TB OLED exemplary successful May.
