**Installing and Configuring a M.2 SSD in a PS5 Console**

As we begin this installation process, it's essential to note that we're taking a risk by modding our console. However, for those who are interested in pushing their PS5 to its limits, this might be an exciting opportunity.

We've started by removing the cover from the M.2 slot on our PS5 console. This is where we'll be installing our new SSD. As you can see, the screw that holds everything in place is currently set to the 110 location. We'll need to move it to the 80 location, as indicated on the diagram.

To do this, we'll need to remove the existing drive and replace it with our new M.2 SSD. The drive we're using has a standard M.2 connector, which should be compatible with our PS5 console. As we can see, the drive is supported by 30, 42, 60, 80, and 100 locations, making it easy to install.

Now that we've removed the existing drive, let's take a closer look at the M.2 slot. You'll notice that there are two shims: one threaded in for computers and another used as a spacer. We'll need to move this shim to our desired location, which is the 80 mark. This will provide the necessary clearance for our new drive.

With our shim moved into place, we can now install our M.2 SSD. Simply align the notch on the drive with the slot, push it in, and secure it with the screw at the 80 location. You'll notice that this cooler or heatsink on top of the M.2 is designed to fit perfectly underneath the cover.

**Reinstalling the Cover and Turning On the Console**

Now that our new drive is installed, let's put everything back together. We'll reinstall the cover and secure it with the screw at the 110 location. It's worth noting that this installation process didn't create any air leaks around the M.2 slot.

As we turn on our console for the first time, you can see the new drive being recognized by the system. The console is automatically booting from the SSD, and the operating system is loading quickly. This is because the M.2 SSD has a read speed of 5531 megabytes per second, making it much faster than traditional storage devices.

**Formatting the New Drive**

Once our PS5 console has finished booting up, we'll need to format the new drive. The system will prompt us to do so, warning that all data on the drive will be deleted. This is because M.2 SSDs are not compatible with certain types of data storage, such as screenshots and game save information.

We can choose to format the new drive from within our console settings or use an external USB drive for data transfer. For this installation, we'll be using an internal drive, so we won't need to worry about formatting at this stage.

**Rebuilding the Database**

After formatting the new drive, our PS5 console will start rebuilding its database. This process can take a few minutes, depending on the size of your game library and the speed of your SSD. During this time, you may see the system performing various tasks, such as updating the operating system and indexing data.

As we wait for the database to rebuild, we can take a moment to appreciate the performance improvements our new M.2 SSD has brought to our console. With a read speed of 5531 megabytes per second, this drive is significantly faster than traditional storage devices.

**Conclusion**

And that's it! Our PS5 console is now installed with an M.2 SSD, providing us with a significant boost in performance and loading times. While this installation process was a bit unconventional, the results are well worth the effort. We're now able to play games like Gran Turismo 7 at high speeds, making for an immersive gaming experience.

We'll be continuing to use our PS5 console as a regular gaming device, and with our new M.2 SSD, we can expect faster loading times, improved performance, and a more responsive user interface. If you're interested in trying out this installation process on your own, make sure to follow the instructions carefully and take necessary precautions to avoid damaging your console.

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday i'm going to commit the biggest atrocity that i could possibly commit on this channel we are going to talk about a console brand new ps5 you heard of it all right so i know a lot of you right now are like oh unsub unsub jstima consoles unsub hey technically it's an amd small form factor pc with rdma2 with rdna 2 and ddr5 anyway moving forward uh no we're going to talk about today it's not a new concept but it's one that we're going to go ahead and show on our channel because i know the amount of people that actually have consoles and stuff to watch this channel might benefit from this we are going to talk about how to expand the storage there have been tons of videos on this but not on this channel so today we are going to be doing that of course this is through the help of our friends over at corsair they have sent over and sponsored today's video by using an mp600 pro lpx ssd so this is a two terabyte if if you've downloaded any games installed on any console in the last 10 years you know how fast internal storage will go i remember i had a what was a i think it was like a 120 gig uh xbox 360 and how fast that would fill up and games have only gotten bigger and ever since consoles moved on to latest hardware specifically the you know the rdna and amd builds that you find inside ps5 now game sizes are massive so having better storage is important now you can hook up external storage however putting a nice fast nvme ssd in there which does use pcie gen 4 inside of the ps5 and this one is up to 70 100 megabytes per second sequential read and up to 6800 megabytes per second sequential write means that this will allow you a huge amount of storage as well as a really fast experience so there is an additional m.2 slot inside the ps5 i don't know how many people are aware of that but the nice thing about this having an actual m.2 slot inside of it means that you can just and it's easy to install the days of having consoles be completely friendly xbox 360 tool opening tool anyone and remember those days how hard it was to actually open up an xbox 360 unless you just use the hammer like i did um it's actually quite easy now it's tool list to open the system we'll do a step-by-step guide today on how to do that but before we can do that we have to let you guys know some of the things that you have to think about one system update is very important this is a brand new out of the box ps5 we are in version 1.0 which means we have to provide an update because there's actually an update that came out for the ps5 that allows for expansion storage to be recognized and formatted because it must be formatted to work with the console second of all you need a low profile m.2 cooler now the cooler is one of those things i'm kind of interested like how well it actually works because there is a cover that will go on top of the cooler and as soon as you cover that up it's like there's a cooler doing anything i don't know but if you get a mdot tube that has a pre-installed like standard height cooler it's not going to clear the cover and we'll show you that once we get inside the unit so a low profile cooler attached to an m.2 pcie gen 4 drive is going to be very important for this now i do also have my ifixit kit even if i wasn't working on this i'd still have my fixit kit on me we're going to be using that to open up the m.2 um drive bay cover itself so before we get in there let's do the most boring part which is get our updates going and we will be back here in about 73 minutes yeah i'll be honest with you as somebody that has not had a playstation and since like ps2 honestly and has had xbox ever since i'm really impressed with how fast sony download and updates downloads updates and up and applies them whereas xbox i feel like it's just like out on coffee break you know good old microsoft servers anyway moving on um check system software update settings we've updated um up to date so now we will have the software that will allow us to be able to expand our storage speaking of storage i'll show you why this is important if we go to storage you'll see 667.2 gigabytes with 649.2 gigabytes free you can see why uh expanding your storage to a two terabyte or even an additional one terabyte um would make a massive difference for your gaming uh you know experience here on on a ps5 so let me go ahead and turn this off um how you turn it off there you go here how do you turn the thing what what is ray of light alright so let's go and take a look at our mp600 lpx i've put these in quite a few systems of mine but i've never actually installed these or the lpx version so this would also do a great job on a computer that needs uh extra clearance for the m.2 sometimes you don't have those covers that are part of the motherboard and they go like right under a graphics card or something you have a tall cooler it can interfere with some graphics cards so the lpx would actually fit um the scenario perfectly for a situation like that so not just consoles but obviously anything where stand or the height of the cooler is really important plus it's pre-installed so thermal pads and everything are already in there opening up the playstation this is so much nicer than back in the day when we would have like special tools required for a 360. you need to lift up on this corner so here's the drive lift up on the corner opposite of the drive while pushing down that way and it comes right off i mean here's the m.2 storage drive right there so you see or i should say expansion slot right there so you see how easy it is to access this so to take this off using my ifixit here with my phillips screwdriver long screw right there set that aside and pull this cover off it'll be a lot easier if i had fingernails so this cooler or this cover is why the low profile cooler is important to be honest though i'm not entirely sure how effective it is with this cover on there the cooler i should say because there's no ventilation in here there's no perforations there's no openings it's completely sealed off so that's something to keep in mind but if we take a look right here we've got a screw currently set to the 110 location now this is millimeters right here this is an ad drive so we're going to have to move the screw and the stand off over to the 80. as you can see here it supports 30 42 60 80 and 100 so if i go ahead and remove this screw you'll notice that little shim moves with it whereas on a computer you'd be used to this shim right here this shim right here normally is threaded in for computers this is just a spacer shim essentially so move it to your appropriate spot which in this system is the 80. so take your drive and align the notch just like you would a computer push it all the way in push it down through the spacer and that will hold our drive down and you can see too how this cooler or heatsink on top of the m.2 is like the perfect height to fit underneath this cover i'm a little bit conflicted and whether or not you should put the cover back on if i know the truth if there's a way to monitor temperatures on this or install a temperature probe maybe i'll do this offline and it might be worth making a video about later on on what the temperatures get on this m.2 but anyway moving forward the tab back on put down the cover reinstall the screw and i'll be honest i'm kind of surprised none of this air blows across it like there's no opening here to blow air across it but whatever so anyway that's it take your cover snap it back on we are now installed and expanded you know what else has expanded my waistline over the years two terabytes with to do like all expansion slots man right expansion slots being belt holes a couple of petabytes of the whole expansion so as soon as we turn on the system it should automatically recognize um the new drive and then we'll come up with a screen there we go right here repairing console storage it's funny they call it repair normally it will say formatting so i think what it might have done right there is just automatically kind of changed its boot order and it's in its own bios kind of thing but it will give you a message that says uh new drive installed formatting getting it ready blah blah blah to use your m.2 you need to format it when you format your m.2 ssd all data on it will be deleted so if you're using this drive out of like a computer and you're like ah i'll just leave these files on here and let my ps5 users left over doesn't work that way it's going to format it so if you want to keep using the ps5 without formatting m.2 turn off your ps5 and then remove your ssd note that the data screenshots video clips can't be saved in m.2 ssd storage so all those clips and save data and all that sort of stuff that happens on your ps5 like if you do screenshots or game save information that's all going to be on the system drive the actual games and stuff can be installed on the storage to save system drive space so don't format nope we are going to format just my controller off there we go how fast is this going go it should go pretty fast yeah look at that showing this in real time it's so quick so much faster than xbox i'm telling you right now so it read at 5531 megabytes per second so as you see good old amd right here this is a ryzen system with pcie gen4 getting 5531 megabytes per second on a console look at that your ps5 wasn't turned off properly yeah so i pulled the plug because i couldn't figure out how to turn it off at least it has recognition for idiots like me rebuilding database did you see that there it is so two separate storage right so our console storage and our m.2 storage and then any usb external storage so extended storage is actually external like any usb uh on the back side there's our full terabytes uh full terabytes full two terabytes two terabytes yeah look at that and then you can even reformat it from right here if you wanted to but anyway so there you go i know this is an odd one you know i used to cover consoles back in when i first started my channel they made a video of me taking an axe to an xbox 360 and running it over with with a durango those were the days anyway we're gonna be setting this up in the office because i want to play gran turismo what is it seven yeah yeah because it's actually got a zl1 one only in it and i've got one of those cars and so i want to play with it on there so i can crash it there guys thanks for watching we'll see in the next onetoday i'm going to commit the biggest atrocity that i could possibly commit on this channel we are going to talk about a console brand new ps5 you heard of it all right so i know a lot of you right now are like oh unsub unsub jstima consoles unsub hey technically it's an amd small form factor pc with rdma2 with rdna 2 and ddr5 anyway moving forward uh no we're going to talk about today it's not a new concept but it's one that we're going to go ahead and show on our channel because i know the amount of people that actually have consoles and stuff to watch this channel might benefit from this we are going to talk about how to expand the storage there have been tons of videos on this but not on this channel so today we are going to be doing that of course this is through the help of our friends over at corsair they have sent over and sponsored today's video by using an mp600 pro lpx ssd so this is a two terabyte if if you've downloaded any games installed on any console in the last 10 years you know how fast internal storage will go i remember i had a what was a i think it was like a 120 gig uh xbox 360 and how fast that would fill up and games have only gotten bigger and ever since consoles moved on to latest hardware specifically the you know the rdna and amd builds that you find inside ps5 now game sizes are massive so having better storage is important now you can hook up external storage however putting a nice fast nvme ssd in there which does use pcie gen 4 inside of the ps5 and this one is up to 70 100 megabytes per second sequential read and up to 6800 megabytes per second sequential write means that this will allow you a huge amount of storage as well as a really fast experience so there is an additional m.2 slot inside the ps5 i don't know how many people are aware of that but the nice thing about this having an actual m.2 slot inside of it means that you can just and it's easy to install the days of having consoles be completely friendly xbox 360 tool opening tool anyone and remember those days how hard it was to actually open up an xbox 360 unless you just use the hammer like i did um it's actually quite easy now it's tool list to open the system we'll do a step-by-step guide today on how to do that but before we can do that we have to let you guys know some of the things that you have to think about one system update is very important this is a brand new out of the box ps5 we are in version 1.0 which means we have to provide an update because there's actually an update that came out for the ps5 that allows for expansion storage to be recognized and formatted because it must be formatted to work with the console second of all you need a low profile m.2 cooler now the cooler is one of those things i'm kind of interested like how well it actually works because there is a cover that will go on top of the cooler and as soon as you cover that up it's like there's a cooler doing anything i don't know but if you get a mdot tube that has a pre-installed like standard height cooler it's not going to clear the cover and we'll show you that once we get inside the unit so a low profile cooler attached to an m.2 pcie gen 4 drive is going to be very important for this now i do also have my ifixit kit even if i wasn't working on this i'd still have my fixit kit on me we're going to be using that to open up the m.2 um drive bay cover itself so before we get in there let's do the most boring part which is get our updates going and we will be back here in about 73 minutes yeah i'll be honest with you as somebody that has not had a playstation and since like ps2 honestly and has had xbox ever since i'm really impressed with how fast sony download and updates downloads updates and up and applies them whereas xbox i feel like it's just like out on coffee break you know good old microsoft servers anyway moving on um check system software update settings we've updated um up to date so now we will have the software that will allow us to be able to expand our storage speaking of storage i'll show you why this is important if we go to storage you'll see 667.2 gigabytes with 649.2 gigabytes free you can see why uh expanding your storage to a two terabyte or even an additional one terabyte um would make a massive difference for your gaming uh you know experience here on on a ps5 so let me go ahead and turn this off um how you turn it off there you go here how do you turn the thing what what is ray of light alright so let's go and take a look at our mp600 lpx i've put these in quite a few systems of mine but i've never actually installed these or the lpx version so this would also do a great job on a computer that needs uh extra clearance for the m.2 sometimes you don't have those covers that are part of the motherboard and they go like right under a graphics card or something you have a tall cooler it can interfere with some graphics cards so the lpx would actually fit um the scenario perfectly for a situation like that so not just consoles but obviously anything where stand or the height of the cooler is really important plus it's pre-installed so thermal pads and everything are already in there opening up the playstation this is so much nicer than back in the day when we would have like special tools required for a 360. you need to lift up on this corner so here's the drive lift up on the corner opposite of the drive while pushing down that way and it comes right off i mean here's the m.2 storage drive right there so you see or i should say expansion slot right there so you see how easy it is to access this so to take this off using my ifixit here with my phillips screwdriver long screw right there set that aside and pull this cover off it'll be a lot easier if i had fingernails so this cooler or this cover is why the low profile cooler is important to be honest though i'm not entirely sure how effective it is with this cover on there the cooler i should say because there's no ventilation in here there's no perforations there's no openings it's completely sealed off so that's something to keep in mind but if we take a look right here we've got a screw currently set to the 110 location now this is millimeters right here this is an ad drive so we're going to have to move the screw and the stand off over to the 80. as you can see here it supports 30 42 60 80 and 100 so if i go ahead and remove this screw you'll notice that little shim moves with it whereas on a computer you'd be used to this shim right here this shim right here normally is threaded in for computers this is just a spacer shim essentially so move it to your appropriate spot which in this system is the 80. so take your drive and align the notch just like you would a computer push it all the way in push it down through the spacer and that will hold our drive down and you can see too how this cooler or heatsink on top of the m.2 is like the perfect height to fit underneath this cover i'm a little bit conflicted and whether or not you should put the cover back on if i know the truth if there's a way to monitor temperatures on this or install a temperature probe maybe i'll do this offline and it might be worth making a video about later on on what the temperatures get on this m.2 but anyway moving forward the tab back on put down the cover reinstall the screw and i'll be honest i'm kind of surprised none of this air blows across it like there's no opening here to blow air across it but whatever so anyway that's it take your cover snap it back on we are now installed and expanded you know what else has expanded my waistline over the years two terabytes with to do like all expansion slots man right expansion slots being belt holes a couple of petabytes of the whole expansion so as soon as we turn on the system it should automatically recognize um the new drive and then we'll come up with a screen there we go right here repairing console storage it's funny they call it repair normally it will say formatting so i think what it might have done right there is just automatically kind of changed its boot order and it's in its own bios kind of thing but it will give you a message that says uh new drive installed formatting getting it ready blah blah blah to use your m.2 you need to format it when you format your m.2 ssd all data on it will be deleted so if you're using this drive out of like a computer and you're like ah i'll just leave these files on here and let my ps5 users left over doesn't work that way it's going to format it so if you want to keep using the ps5 without formatting m.2 turn off your ps5 and then remove your ssd note that the data screenshots video clips can't be saved in m.2 ssd storage so all those clips and save data and all that sort of stuff that happens on your ps5 like if you do screenshots or game save information that's all going to be on the system drive the actual games and stuff can be installed on the storage to save system drive space so don't format nope we are going to format just my controller off there we go how fast is this going go it should go pretty fast yeah look at that showing this in real time it's so quick so much faster than xbox i'm telling you right now so it read at 5531 megabytes per second so as you see good old amd right here this is a ryzen system with pcie gen4 getting 5531 megabytes per second on a console look at that your ps5 wasn't turned off properly yeah so i pulled the plug because i couldn't figure out how to turn it off at least it has recognition for idiots like me rebuilding database did you see that there it is so two separate storage right so our console storage and our m.2 storage and then any usb external storage so extended storage is actually external like any usb uh on the back side there's our full terabytes uh full terabytes full two terabytes two terabytes yeah look at that and then you can even reformat it from right here if you wanted to but anyway so there you go i know this is an odd one you know i used to cover consoles back in when i first started my channel they made a video of me taking an axe to an xbox 360 and running it over with with a durango those were the days anyway we're gonna be setting this up in the office because i want to play gran turismo what is it seven yeah yeah because it's actually got a zl1 one only in it and i've got one of those cars and so i want to play with it on there so i can crash it there guys thanks for watching we'll see in the next one\n"