SanDisk's new 8TB PS5 SSD costs more than three times as much as the PS5 Pro - Engadget

The highest capacity Optimus GX Pro 850P drive almost tops the $3,000 mark. Getting close to maxing out your PS5's SSD? You have a few choices: either start deleting some of those meaty RPGs, pronto, or get used to paying the kind of money SanDisk is charging for its new, officially licensed storage expansion drives. The Optimus GX Pro 850P NVMe SSD is among a number of new SanDisk drives that have been rebranded from the previous WD_Black naming convention. Designed with the PS5 and PS5 Pro in mind, it's available in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB and 8TB variants, with the top-end model priced at a truly eye-watering $2,960. And according to SanDisk's website, that's actually the reduced price, down from its regular price of $3,700. To put that into perspective, that's more than 3x the price of a PS5 Pro in the US right now, which already includes a 2TB SSD straight out of the box. Even the $760 2TB model (reduced from $950) is more than $100 more expensive than the standard PS5 with a disc drive. The Optimus GX Pro 850P is a PCle 4.0 drive with Read/Write speeds of 7,300/6,300MB/s and a heatsink design. These specs make it sound suspiciously similar (if not completely identical) to the WD_Black