INLAND 2TB Gaming Performance Plus NVMe Internal Gaming SSD Solid State Drive with Heatsink Optimized for PS5 - Gen4 PCIe, M.2 2280, DRAM Cache, 176-Layer TLC 3D NAND Flash, Up to 7000MB/s

I purchased this drive at the end of 2022 to swap into my launch model PS5, whose 2TB expansion drive was quickly filling up. I put the 2TB drive into our living room PS5, which my wife and visitors use, and then put this new 4TB drive into my game room console.The drive works great, and I can not tell any difference in gaming performance between this budget drive and the Samsung that I had before it. If you need an expansion drive for PS5, this one is really hard to beat for the price!The price with & without the heatsink for these drives used to be a considerable enough difference that I used my own heatsink for both PS5's, but as of the time of this review, it seems it's only a few extra dollars to get one of these INLAND drives with a heatsink included. May as well pay the small extra and get the heatsink with it.It's been over 4 months since I installed this drive and there's no signs of slowdown yet. The drive has 1.75TB of free space with 52 games installed on it. Some of the games are huge, at over 100GB each, so this drive has been a blessing! I should have enough space between this one and the internal to get me through the generation without having to delete too much at any given time, which is great for those of us stuck with data caps.

My laptop is not gen 4. In fact, it is gen 3 by 2 lanes, so I top out at around 1700MB/s sequential anyway. And q1t1 (which gives you "snappiness") is fine, around 65 like most mid range drives. But at the time of my purchase (about $440) this was the least expensive 4tb drive, period. The gen 3 version was a few dollars more and did not stand out in any regard. No brainier!The ratings are good, no widespread failure options in the news, and if I upgrade to a notebook with pcie 4 in a few years, will I care about any modest performance gains a second or third generation of pcie 4.0 controllers will deliver? Probably not a lot. Maybe in two years I will want an 8tb, maybe. Of course, there is workload to consider. I do some dev work that benefits from ultra low latency; that is not this drive. But for upgrading notebooks that currently live in 2022? It's fine performance, and currently among the best prices, some days the best price, and the high parallelism from so many nand chips puts it pretty close to the sequential max for pcie 4.0. That is a lot of future proofing. Why wouldn't you if you need 4tb?Well, there is a low end 4tb sata out there (if you can use sata) for substantially less, but most of the 4tb sata drives I would trust are in the same price range as this. So don't do sata unless you absolutely have to.Will nand prices fall further? In the next few months (3rd and 4th quarter of 2022)? There is your only reason. Some analysts expect prices to fall further. It is a gamble, but if you need an nvme drive today to extend an older laptop that is full? All go.Update: a few weeks after purchase, I see there is a Teamgroup pcie 3.0 4tb out there for about 90 or 100 dollars less, for 4tb. If you are pretty sure that will do you for a few years it may be a meaningfully better price for effectively the same performance assuming you will be on pcie 3.0 for the long haul. But if you plan to upgrade to a 4.0 PC in the coming year, this may be better. Your call.

put this in a new build and have had no issue, I have used inland in the past and have been warned that the quality isn't good. I, so far, haven't had any problems. your mileage may very

Considering you’ve got one SSD expansion slot on the PS5, might as well go for largest capacity SSD you can afford. Took a chance and snagged this 2TB Inland SSD for a good price (cheapest 2TB option available anywhere on the internet that I could find as of this writing) along with a Sabrent PS5 heatsink. Took all but 5 minutes to install. Just as one of the other reviewers showed, I’m getting blazing fast read speeds up there with the fastest SSDs that I’ve seen tested for the PS5 (I’ve done a lot of research).As of right now, I’d recommend this drive for the purpose of use in the PS5. Only concern I have is longevity and reliability, which only time will tell on that front. But with a 6 year warranty (seemingly 1 year longer than the typical 5 years you usually get), it’s not that big of a concern. Also, since this isn’t a commonly tested brand, only time will tell if it starts to slow down over time or if there are any other issues that crop up with use (caching problems, etc). But so far, so good and I have no complaints (except for maybe the old school pain in the butt plastic packaging that requires a knife/scissors to open).

The first one I ordered, the PS5 came up with the error in the picture. I reordered the same 2TB SSD after the seller said to do so, that the first one must be defective. When I installed the 2nd one, absolutely nothing happened. I restarted it, nothing. I shut it off, removed the SSD, inspected the contact points, they were good, and I reinstalled it, but nothing. It wasn't showing up. I then removed it and reinstalled the one that came up with the error to make sure that something wasn't wrong with my Ps5's SSD slot, so I reinstalled the one that came up with the error. The error returned, so it's not my PS5's SSD slot. I will be returning both of the Inland SSD'S that I ordered. Idk why it did not work on my Ps5. I checked and my system is 100% up-to-date., it meets the requirements of the PS5, It recognizes a hard drive I plugged into the USB port. I ordered a WD SSD, we'll see if that one works.I contacted the seller and they responded within a few hours and they seemed helpful. This review is just a reflection on the Inland 2 TB SSD.