You want great speeds: This drive has excellent speeds that will only be bested by newer drives on the market. Comprised of 3 main elements, a pre-cute metal plate with air channel grooves, a secondary metal clip that surrounds it and finally the thermal silica gel pad that connected the Heatsink to the SSD.

Which leads us very neatly to the Addlink A95, an SSD that is precisely targetted at PS5 owners, sporting the official PS5 logo and specifications that put it on par with most of the SSD big guns in PS5 upgrades (i. Fortunately, that's where the best PS5 SSDs come in handy, as you can give yourself far more breathing room for more games. Products with a heatsink attached will usually say on the listing page, and will often be a little thicker, with vent-looking elements on one or both sides. Design and features: The WD Black SN850X has one of the more stylish heatsink designs on this list, and to be honest, the same can go for any of WD Black's SN850 series.internal SSDs using a desktop testbed with an MSI X570 motherboard and AMD Ryzen CPU, 16GB of Corsair Dominator DDR4 memory clocked to 3,600MHz, and a discrete Nvidia GeForce graphics card. You want faff-free installation: If you're worried about the DIY involved with the SSD installation, don't be.

The ridged and cornered design makes it a breeze during installation too because you can easily grip it when it's ready to be pushed into place in the M. As it stands, the recently-reviewed NM790 is more affordable at 4TB, but the A93 is better at 1TB and 2TB. While I was a bit too scared to test its durability properly, it's marketed as being resistant to splashes, dust, and drops. Along with that, there is a little nod to the heatsink and rather unique (at least as far as other M.Addlink uses a crosscut design, which makes the heatsink more effective in different cooling environments. This makes it by far the easiest and less fiddly drive to install, although performance isn't quite as strong as the Addlink A95 or WD SN850x.