Sandisk is selling an 8-terabyte SSD for the PlayStation 5, and Dan Howley says the $3,700 list price for the PS5 Pro-era storage problem is too high for him. The discounted price is $2,959. For players who want more console storage, the sticker shock may be the real story.
Dan Howley on $3,700
Howley said the drive can hold up to 200 games. He also said, “I'm not a gamer.”
He then compared the price to the console itself, saying, “it's more than three PS5 Pro consoles.”
Sandisk's 8 terabytes
Sandisk says the drive is “It's uh 8 terabytes.” That capacity is the selling point. The math is simple enough for any PlayStation 5 owner weighing upgrades against a much cheaper storage cleanup.
Howley said, “I mean, look, I I I'm a dork and I spend a lot of money on TVs and stuff like that. I'm not plopping 3700 just so I can store more games.”
Memory shortage pricing
He said the memory shortage and storage shortage are pushing products like this higher. He also tied the pattern to consumer hardware more broadly, saying, “it's just an example of what we're going to continue to see over the, I mean, maybe till 2030, we've heard, when it comes to consumer products, we're all going to be, you know, ready for the price hikes.”
His advice was blunt. “Just delete the games.” “If you really want to have storage, go buy the physical game, then you don't need something like this.”
Sony made it possible from the start for PlayStation 5 owners to install their own drive and increase storage. The question now is whether an 8-terabyte SSD priced at $2,959 on sale can find many buyers at all.
