{"id":320923,"date":"2025-10-17T21:40:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2163263"},"modified":"2025-10-17T21:40:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T21:40:47","slug":"df-direct-weekly-does-the-xbox-series-ssd-work-in-playstation-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/df-direct-weekly-does-the-xbox-series-ssd-work-in-playstation-5\/","title":{"rendered":"DF Direct Weekly: Does the Xbox Series SSD work in PlayStation 5?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/df-direct-weekly-does-the-xbox-series-ssd-work-in-playstation-5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PlayStation 5 was recently updated to support NVMe-based PCI Express 4.0 storage upgrades &#8211; so what happens when an Xbox Series S SSD is ripped out of the console and inserted into PS5 instead? That&#8217;s just one of the many topics covered in this week&#8217;s DF Direct Weekly where I&#8217;m joined by my friends and colleagues John Linneman and Alex Battaglia to cover off a vast array of tech chat &#8211; including the Abandoned real-time trailer debacle, the arrival of the RX 6600 XT and the endangered existence of the valuerific 1080p gaming GPU.<\/p>\n<p>But without digging into the video, I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;d all like to know what happens when an Xbox SSD is placed into PlayStation 5 because here&#8217;s the thing&#8230; it <em>should<\/em> work. Based on our tests, the console will work with any PCIe gen 4 NVMe drive. The only guidance is that you should be looking for read speed minimums of 5500MB\/s. Of course, the theoretical bandwidth of the Xbox drive is much lower (circa 2400MB\/s) but the point is that lower speed drives work &#8211; Sony just doesn&#8217;t recommend using them. <\/p>\n<p>And indeed, putting a Series S drive into PlayStation 5 initially looks promising &#8211; the drive is recognised by the system and we&#8217;re invited to format it. Game on! The only problem is that the formatting never completes &#8211; we get to 13 percent complete and then the PlayStation 5 hard resets, then needs to have the drive removed, whereupon the system comes back to life, albeit in 480p mode, before the drive database is rebuilt and we&#8217;re back in business. It&#8217;s been tested on two different drives now but the bottom line is that we&#8217;ve bricked a Series S to give you the news here. And it&#8217;s a shame as we would have loved to have seen how Ratchet and Clank would have played&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2021-weekly-can-an-xbox-series-ssd-work-in-ps5\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/digitalfoundry-2021-weekly-can-an-xbox-series-ssd-work-in-ps5\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PlayStation 5 was recently updated to support NVMe-based PCI Express 4.0 storage upgrades &#8211; so what happens when an Xbox Series S SSD is ripped out of the console and inserted into PS5 instead? That&#8217;s just one of the many topics covered in this week&#8217;s DF Direct Weekly where I&#8217;m joined by my friends and colleagues John Linneman and Alex Battaglia to cover off a vast array of tech chat &#8211; including the Abandoned real-time trailer debacle, the arrival of the RX 6600 XT and the endangered existence of the valuerific 1080p gaming GPU. 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