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Facepalm: Sandisk has unveiled a new line of SSDs designed to expand the PlayStation 5's storage capacity. To no one's surprise, the new drives are priced more like luxury hardware than an affordable storage upgrade for a mass-market home console.
The US memory manufacturer has launched the Optimus GX PRO 850P SSD lineup, which includes storage drives specifically designed for the PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro. While high-capacity SSDs are already expensive, Sandisk's PS5-branded drives push pricing to an entirely different level.
The Optimus GX PRO 850P lineup includes four NVMe SSDs with capacities ranging from 1TB to 8TB. The 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB models are priced at $380, $760, $1,500, and $2,960, respectively. Sandisk is also offering introductory discounts on the drives, suggesting their regular retail prices will be even higher once the promotion ends.
