**The Ultimate PS5 Build: A Step-by-Step Guide**

Hello my friends and welcome to a momentous occasion because today we are going to be building the ultimate PS5. So this, what do they call it? The black plates, skid plates. So this is a shell replacement for the PS5. So this comes courtesy of our friends dbrand who are not sponsoring this video, but were very kind to hook us up with the shell early.

**The Installation Process**

And essentially it allows you with one simple installation to turn your PS5 black. These are, how should I say it? Not cheap, and likely will be sold out by the time that you're watching this video, although, of course, I will have a link in the description. But the installation should be fairly straightforward.

**The Naked PS5**

I am clearly an expert at disassembling the PS5 (Austin laughing). There we go. So now we have our naked PS5. Now, normally this would be the point where you install your dbrand shells of doom, and that's it, you have yourself a black PS5.

**The SSD Upgrade**

However, do you think that that's the only thing we're doing in this video? We have so many more ridiculously stupid things to do to this PlayStation 5. Oh look, an SSD that won't work. So one of the nice things about PlayStations dating all the way back to the PlayStation 2 is that you can expand the internal storage.

**The M.2 SSD Installation**

So with the plate removed, you can see right here we have access to an SSD caddy. There are officially no SSDs that will actually work, and that is because the PS5 is currently waiting on a firmware update to support it. However, as you can see, the hardware is all here for you to install an M.2 SSD to expand the storage of your PS5.

**The Storage Limitations**

Because let's not forget, there's only 825 gigs of space on a standard PS5, and even less when you consider the fact that there's an operating system and Astro's Playroom and everything pre-installed. There is exactly one SSD which is fast enough, and, at least according to WD, it meets the certification.

**The Firmware Update**

Unfortunately, I can't really test that because my PS5 doesn't have the firmware update, but by the time you're watching this video in 2022, I'm sure it'll work just fine. So you'll see there are a few different slots here for the screws. So there's 30, 42, 60, 80, and 110.

**The USB Hard Drive**

This is for different sizes of M.2 SSDs. Traditionally, 80 is the most common size, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna unscrew the 110 slot and just put that in the 80 slot once we're ready to install. So it should be just as simple as slotting with those gold contacts facing up.

**The Xbox Drive**

You can install a USB 3.0 hard drive, for example, you can plug it into the back, but the problem is it'll work fine for PS4 games; it actually does not work for PS5 games. You really do need that high-speed SSD storage for that to properly work.

**The Stealthy Looking PS5**

Did you just give me an Xbox drive? This is illegal. You know you can't plug an Xbox branded drive into a PlayStation, right? I mean, that's just a normal hard drive. Just imagine this is eight terabytes. Like you can imagine that this is a good video worthy of subscribing and wring-a-ling the ding-a-ling bell for notifications about this high-quality content.

**The Reverse Colorway**

And so, with that, we've got ourselves one stealthy looking PS5 and some tape. Are you giving me electronic tape? They send us yellow? Ew, we gotta do Oreo, right? Do you wanna do Oreo? Of course, we've gotta do Oreo. We're gonna go complete reverse colorway where we've got the crunchy cookies on the outside and the creamy cream in the inside.

**Putting on the Skin**

Something like this. I'm just gonna let you in on a little secret. It might be a surprise to find out that I am not good at putting on skins, right? I rock dbrand skins on my Z Flip; again, this is not an ad; this is something I use every day. I don't put this on; my wife is really good at putting it on; but she spends a lot of time; she brings up the hairdryer. I slap skins on; they look bad; I'm like...

WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: en- Hello my friends and welcometo a momentous occasionbecause today we are going tobe building the ultimate PS5.So this, what do they call it?The black plates, skid plates.So this is a shellreplacement for the PS5.So this comes courtesyof our friends dbrandwho are not sponsoring this video,but were very kind to hookus up with the shell early.And essentially it allows youwith one simple installationto turn your PS5 black.These are, how should I say it?Not cheap, and likely will be sold outby the time that you'rewatching this video,although, of course,I will have a link in the description.But the installation shouldbe fairly straightforward.I am clearly an expertat disassembling the PS5.(Austin laughing)There we go.So now we have our naked PS5.Now, normally this would be the pointwhere you install yourdbrand shells of doom,and that's it,you have yourself a black PS5.However, do you thinkthat that's the only thingwe're doing in this video?We have so many moreridiculously stupid thingsto do to this PlayStation 5.Oh look, an SSD that won't work.So one of the nicethings about PlayStationsdating all the way backto the PlayStation 2is that you can expandthe internal storage.So with the plate removed,you can see right here,we have access to an SSD caddy.There are officially no SSDsthat will actually work,and that is because thePS5 is currently waitingon a firmware update to support it.However, as you can see,the hardware is all here foryou to install an M.2 SSDto expand the storage of your PS5.Because, let's not forget,there's only 825 gigs of spaceon a standard PS5,and even less when you consider the factthat there's an operating systemand Astro's Playroom andeverything pre-installed.There is exactly one SSDwhich is fast enough,and, at least according to WD,it meets the certification.Unfortunately, I can't really test thatbecause my PS5 doesn'thave the firmware update,but by the time you'rewatching this video in 2022,I'm sure it'll work just fine.So you'll see there are afew different slots herefor the screws.So there's 30, 42,60, 80 and 110.This is for different sizes of M.2 SSDs.Traditionally, 80 is the most common size,so what I'm gonna dois I'm gonna unscrew the 110 slotand just put that in the 80 slotonce we're ready to install.So it should be just as simple as slottingwith those gold contacts facing up.You slot it into the peg on the bottom,and then, with our screw,boom, there we goan extra two terabytesof capacity on our PS5.Could I show you how this works?Nope, because, again,this is not functioning at the moment.You can install a USB 3.0 hard drive,for example, you canplug it into the back,but the problem is it'llwork fine for PS4 games,it actually does not work for PS5 games.You really do need thathigh-speed SSD storagefor that to properly work.Did you just give me an Xbox drive?This is illegal.You know you can't plugan Xbox branded driveinto a PlayStation, right?- I mean, that'sjust a normal hard drive.- Just imagine this is eight terabytes.Like you can imaginethat this is a good videoworthy of subscribingand wring-a-linging the ding-a-ling bellfor notifications aboutthis high quality content.And so, with that,we've got ourselves onestealthy looking PS5and some tape.Are you giving me electronic tape?They send us yellow?Ew, we gotta do Oreo, right?- Do you wanna do Oreo?- Of course we've gotta do Oreo.We're gonna go complete reverse colorwaywhere we've got the crunchycookies on the outsideand the creamy cream in the inside.Something like this.I'm just gonna let youin on a little secret.It might be a surprise to find outthat I am not good atputting on skins, right?I rock dbrand skins on my Z Flip, again,this is not an ad,this is something I use everyday.I don't put this on,my wife is really good at putting it on,but she spends a lot of time,she brings up the hairdryer.I slap skins on,they look bad,I'm like, "I don't knowwhy it doesn't look good."- Do you want me to do it?- Yes, that's what I wasactually trying to get,yeah, can you please do it for me?- Okay.- Cool, thanks.- I subscribed to the MKBHD mentalityof matte black forever.- You're wearing a yellow hoodie.- Oh, look at that.Wow, I didn't even have to try that hard.The main reasonswhy you would want to skinthis glossy piano black plasticis not only because it attractsdust and scratches a lot,but it just looks ugly.Yeah, I'll buy that.Oh dude, that is so cool.With the controller too,oh dude, that is a waybetter combo than the stock.- Luckily, you can watchyour friends Austin and Kenmake a PlayStation 5 look cooland then immediately ruin it.(people laughing)Oh-ho, look at that,our great looking PS5that we're about to ruinwith silly accessorieslike a cooling fan for PS5 DE slash UHD.- What?- Every single time we'vedone a building the ultimate,we have bought somestupid cooling accessory.Now, I will say,after spending some time with the PS5,it is certainly better than the PS4 was,but it does get loud.This has an actuallyslightly different designthan I would expect.- Wait, is that oneactually just USB power.- It actually just clips in.- What?- Boom, there we go,we now have a super cool PS5.Now, it does have a USB 3.0 pass through,so theoretically you actuallydon't lose that USB port.You still have the same USB port,it's just using it for power,and then you have a little switch hereto turn it on and off.Oh, what is that?What is that?Is that?So just as I was sayinghow traditionally coolingstands are terrible and useless,this looks extra terrible and useless.This looks like itactually has a little hookfor your headphones.Is it gonna just push air inthrough the bottom of the console?That's not gonna do anything,that's not gonna do anything.For game fans,feel the new play.So they have the little dongles inside,and essentially what thisis is USB-C on one end,so you connect it to your controller,and then it's magnetic on the other side.So theoretically, I canjust drop it in like thisand it will charge.All right, well, we're making progress.We're making progress.It's looking a whole lot more ultimateas far as I'm concerned.- So we can put more things on it.- Oh, that's a great idea.Okay, so instead of puttingyour actual audio headset,you can put PS VR,provided that you've talked to Sonyand asked for the dongleto make this work with the PS5,that we definitely did,that we're just notgonna conveniently showon the video (laughs).- Yeah, well, we'llplay PS VR off-camera.- Aren't you so happy you'vesubscribed to the channelfor nonsense like this.I know, I'm really happy thatI'm still here years later,making more ultimatePlayStations (laughs).Can you see the look ofhappiness on my face right now?I'm so, so, so happy on the inside.Decoration accessory for P5.Oh, these are like thelittle shell replacements.Do you have to take apartanother PS5 controller?Can I call Logic again?- No.- So you can seethat essentially we're gonnareplace this black shell here,and instead we're gonna have a red shell.So they did give you a littleguitar pick to do this with.I actually prefer to usea little iFixit Spudger.All right, we got it.And then theoretically this red oneshould just slot right in,Ayyy, look at that.But we also have a blue, yeah,which I think mightlook a little bit betteron the other controller.Oh ho!Now, you may be askingyourself a simple question.Why, when I clicked onthe ultimate PS5 video,do we have a Digital Edition?Is it because I'm about to makemy clickbait PS10 video right now?Next time, but no, not right now.Instead, we have a slightlymore nefarious ideato take this even more over the top.So here we have a standard,stock, completely unmodifiedPlayStation 5 Digital Edition.Now, if you've ever seenone of these before,you'll know that it'sessentially the same thingas a traditional PS5.The only thing it's reallymissing is the disc drive.However, because it ismissing the disc drive,it actually has aslightly different shape.Personally, one that I actuallythink that looks better,but, well, it gave us an idea.So when you put the DigitalEdition beside the standard PS5,what you'll seeis that the shell hereis symmetrical, right?Because you don't have that humpfor where the optical disc drive goeslike you do here,which personally I feel likealways looks a little bit weird.However, so you'll see whenyou compare the shells,well, they look similar,one is much thinner than the other,which gave us an idea.What happens if you put theshell from a standard PS5on a Digital?Besides fooling your friendsinto thinking that you have a cooler PS5.Now, from the outside,this now looks exactlylike a standard PS5.What this now gives us issome room inside the chassis.Now, there are many useful andpractical things you can dowith the extra space thatwe now have right in here.We're gonna do none of those,and instead we're gonnaput a Nintendo Switchinside our PS5.Yeah, that's really the plan right now.So we're gonna be destroy,I mean, modifying the dbrandshell for this to happen,but I can show you what it lookslike on the standard shell.So if I take a switch andI just remove the Joy-Cons,what you'll seeis that it is almost aperfect fit right here.So you'll see that oncewe actually put this on,actually it'll just slide right in,and we will have, a Switch inside our PS5.Now, the only problem with thisis that I can't see the Switch,but it's in there.If only I had some cutting implementsto open up a hole in the side of my PS5so I could see my Switch.Not sure who thought givingme a Dremel was a good idea,but let's give this a try.All right, think I shouldstart in the middleor should I start on the edge?(tool spinning)Okay, so we wanna go alittle faster than that.This is some thick plasticfrom the robots at dbrand.All right, think we are pretty close here.Oh, look at that.There we go.Doesn't it look beautiful?Isn't it a perfectly cut holethat we definitely had no problemsgetting it eloquently cut.We have sandpaper, right?- Yes.- Okay, we're gonna need a lot of that.We'll be right back afterthis message from our sponsor,YouTube AdSense.It might not be pretty,but this should work nowif our measurements have been correct.So we'll take the otherside panel out of the way,and you can see,once we actually justspent a little time sandingand kind of cleaning it up,it's not terrible.It's certainly not quite straight.It bent a little bit,you know, these things happen,but I think there's nothing else for it.Let's just put the Switch inand see if it actually fits.How much is it going to suck right nowif the Switch falls through this hole.Now, I'm gonna do a little test fit here.I imagine we'll probably wannause some tape or somethingto actually hold it inplace for the final fit,but let's just see if it actually works.I'm going to place theSwitch in the shell.Actually, I guess that'smy first test fit.Oh, that looks terrible (laughs).Well, okay, so we may havemiscalculated on the bottom.There seems to be a little daylight there,but ah, it's not so bad,okay, well.It's not permanent,I will have you know,we can easily take the Switch outwhen we come to our senses.Hey, hey, hey,we have a Switch inside our PS5, it works.Is it the prettiest thing in the world?No, but is that a Switchthat if I could turn it on,if I had remembered to turn it on beforeI put in the PS5, it works.Now let me put on allthe other ultimate stuffand let's actually see what happenswhen you fire up the ultimatePS5 slash ultimate Switchand play Fortnite,is that what we're doing (laughs)?And so, let us see if theultimate PS5 is still alive.Oh, yo, the blue againstthe sort of black shellactually looks really cool.Hopefully this actually isall gonna turn on for me.Oh, look at this,a module is insertedin the expansion slot.Turn off your PS5,remove the module andturn the PS5 back on.I guess because we had the SSD installed,it won't straight up even boot.Oh, okay.Well, once the firmwareupdate comes out, it'll work,but I guess we have not built ourselvesthe ultimate PS5 yet.Didn't like that, did it?Okay, so it does show the PS4 drive.Now, if I format it,it will just nuke everything on it.And so, we can now installtwo terabytes of PS4 gameson our Xbox drive.Now, the next thing I would dois actually plug in ourdock and see what happens.Okay, so our green lights are on,so it's charging.Oh yeah, it's charging one controller.If I drop in the other controller,controllers charge.Is the fan on?And so we have the little fansrunning on the bottom, okay.Now let's fire up the rear fans.Whoa, that's loud.So now we have fiveadditional fans on our PS5.Wow, how useful this is.It's so quiet,I can barely hear it.Why do you want your PS5 to be this loud?Where's this heat even coming from?- I don't know what differenceit can make to the PS5because there's no vent on the bottom.- There is a slight littlebit of venting on the bottom.- I mean, a little bit,but not where these fans are.I think I would allow myPS5 to suffer in the heatbefore having to deal withhow loud these fans are.- Well, I think nowwe really just need to get into the Switchbecause you've already gotFortnite loaded on here, right?- Yes.- All right.Let's go head to head,1v1 me bro.It is time for theultimate PS5 Switch showdown.On one side,I have myself the ultimate PS5,and on the little side,Ken's playing on the Switch.I mean (coughs) our secondaryPlayStation compute unitfeaturing Nintendo.- This is the screen thatyour little brother plays on.You enlisted me to do this,even though I have really neverplayed Fortnite in my life.- You've played more Fortnite than I have.- That is an absolute lie.So the funny thing about thisis the interface for Fortniteon the Switch is so tinyand we didn't leave enoughroom on the top of the Switchto see where my menusare with how I cut this.So I have to actually leanin here and figure that out.- Wait, where are we dropping?Where are we dropping?- I don't know,you play this game more than I do.- All right, all right,shall we just not engage?Oh God, oh, we're top eight.Oh, oh, wait, wait,is that the last person, last person.We're gonna win, get them, get them,it's just us versus them!Ken, we can do this,we can do this!We just did it,we just won a game of Fortnite!!!Oh, we just won!!!I have never won a gameof Fortnite in my lifeand we just did it togetherwith the power of theultimate PS5 on our first try.Thank you very much forwatching this episode,make sure to subscribe andring-a-ling the ding-a-ling bellfor other sweet Fortnitemontages like this (laughs).We did it.- That was great.- The power of friendship.(upbeat music)