{"id":125803,"date":"2022-07-12T09:03:59","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:03:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=125803"},"modified":"2022-07-12T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T07:03:59","slug":"western-digital-and-sony-to-release-the-first-ps5-ssd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/125803-western-digital-and-sony-to-release-the-first-ps5-ssd","title":{"rendered":"Western Digital and Sony to release the first PS5 SSD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Western Digital has partnered with Sony Interactive Entertainment to produce and release the first official M.2 SSD for the PlayStation 5.<\/p>\n<p>The new WD_BLACK SN850 NVMe SSD will support the storage and running of both PS5 and PS4 games directly on the next-gen PlayStation console.<\/p>\n<p>TThe SSD has been equipped with a heatsink to improve performance, offers drastically reduced loading times, and can reach 7,000 MB\/s read speeds.<\/p>\n<p>The SSD is currently available exclusively from Best Buy and directly from Western Digital for $169.99 and will be available from other retailers in August.<\/p>\n<p>South African prices and availability have not yet been announced.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MWiA6WSbBLU\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Read: <a href=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/125778-sad-news-for-bloodborne-fans\">Sad news for Bloodborne Fans<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new SSD made especially for the PS5 will massively increase performance for the console. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":250,"featured_media":125806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[21861,2101],"class_list":["post-125803","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-playstation","tag-ps5","tag-ssd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/250"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/125806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}