Sandisk has pulled the wraps off full specs and pricing for its Optimus GX PRO 850P SSD line, a PCIe 4.0 drive built for PlayStation 5 and PlayStation 5 Pro owners who have apparently decided storage should hurt as much as the console did. The headline number is the 8TB model: at $2959.99 in Sandisk’s US store, it costs roughly 4.6 times more than a standard PS5, and that is already a discounted price.
For context, Sony raised PS5 prices on 2 April, putting the standard disc model at $649.99, the Digital Edition at $599.99, and the PS5 Pro at $899.99. So yes, Sandisk’s top-end SSD is now firmly in ”premium accessory” territory, not ”reasonable expansion” territory.
Optimus GX PRO 850P speeds and endurance
The new drive comes in 1TB, 2TB, 4TB, and 8TB versions. Sandisk says the 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models can reach sequential read speeds of up to 7300MB/s and sequential write speeds of up to 6600MB/s, although the 1TB version tops out at 6300MB/s for writes. The 8TB model is rated at up to 7200MB/s read and 6600MB/s write.
There is also some serious endurance on offer. Sandisk lists 600 TBW for the 1TB drive, 1200 TBW for 2TB, 2400 TBW for 4TB, and 4800 TBW for 8TB, plus a five-year warranty across the range. The 8TB version is rated for up to 1.2 million IOPS in random read and write operations, which is the sort of number that looks impressive even if your backlog is the real bottleneck.
Sandisk PS5 SSD prices by capacity
- 1TB: $379.99, with a recommended price of $474.99
- 2TB: $759.99, with a recommended price of $949.99
- 4TB: $1499.99, with a recommended price of $1874.99
- 8TB: $2959.99, with a recommended price of $3699.99
The pattern is hard to miss: even the cheaper versions sit in the premium bracket, while the 8TB model crosses into ”because you can” pricing. That is not unusual for early high-capacity SSDs aimed at a console audience, where the buyer pool is smaller and the sticker shock can be justified with speed, warranty coverage, and bragging rights. Whether enough PS5 owners want to pay nearly $3,000 for storage is another matter entirely.
Sandisk is clearly targeting the tiny slice of users who want one drive to swallow an entire digital library, and then some. The more interesting question is whether competitors follow with similarly oversized PS5-ready SSDs, or whether this remains a showcase product that proves the ceiling is high while most people shop much lower down the stack.