Nextorage aims to compete with those big names and does so with a very impressive foray.
Not only that, but Sony is a minority owner of the company.
But why does it matter?
I was personally a bit apprehensive about testing a relatively unknown brand of SSD.
Will its impressive specs stand up against thebest SSDs for PS5?
The NEM-PA Series can be found in a few different sizes.
Regardless, you wont be stuck for choice for either size and price.
I’m testing the 4TB model for this review.
Essentially, it keeps the gear very cool, even under strain.
Unfortunately, I was unable to test temperatures to an exact degree.
This falls 341MB/s short of the advertised 6,900MB/s, which, in fairness, is a small difference.
More expensive drives with official licensing like theWD Black SN850Phave fallen far shorter.
In all likelihood, you wont notice those 341MB/s when loading games up anyway.
I was actually very impressed that despite advertising lower speeds, the drive marginally overtook what was expected.
Overall, CrystalDiskMark measured the drive as having an average read/write speed of 6,971MB/s and 6,924MB/s respectively.
These numbers make for a drive that is very usable within your PS5.
Thats 77.87GB in less than half a minute.
Load times for games, as you would expect, were lightning-quick in almost every test.
It was honestly quite overwhelming having the instant speeds that Nextorage’s PS5 SSD provides.
Similarly, the massive amount of storage that was suddenly at my fingertips was unreal.
Should you buy the Nextorage NEM-PA Series PS5 SSD?
Each test was conducted three times each and an average was taken for the final figures in the review.
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