Designed for the PlayStation 5, the MSI M480 is also available

MSI recently introduced the last year Spatium M480 PlayStation 5 console version, the M480 Play-t. The biggest innovation of the drive compared to its predecessor is that it has an aluminum heat sink that is still only 10.7 mm the full height of the SSD, so the storage can be easily installed in Sony’s new console designed for this purpose. opening.

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The M480 Play will be available in 500 GB as well as 1, 2 and 4 TB capacities. In each case, the PCB housed a Phison E18 controller and probably a 176-layer 3D TLC NAND memory chip from Micron, only the amount of the latter being variable. The PCIe 4.0 interface, which supports NVMe 1.4, is capable of 6500 MB / s for sequential reading in the smallest version and 7000 MB / s for the three major versions, and 2850 MB for write speeds and 6800 MB for the two largest versions. / s. The amount of DRAM also depends on the amount of storage space, the members of the quintet have 512 MB and 1 and 2-2 GB of DDR4 memory, which of course support the SLC cache function, and the picture is completed by AES256 encryption and a 5-year manufacturer’s warranty. .

The date of launch of the novelties and their specific purchase price are not yet known.

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