Samsung 980 PRO NVMe M.2 SSD, Up to 7,000MB/s Read, PCIe 4.0, 250GB–2TB

Samsung's previous Gen4 flagship: TLC flash paired with an onboard DRAM cache, so it sustains long writes rather than dropping to cache-empty speed. That combination still places it ahead of most current budget Gen4 drives.

This is the bare card without a heatsink, which rules it out of a PlayStation 5 bay as supplied. For a console, take the Samsung 990 PRO Heatsink NVMe M.2 SSD with Heat Sink PCIe 4.0 instead.