Are you a PlayStation 5™ (PS5) owner?
If yes, then you know that in September 2021, Sony introduced the ability to install an internal SSD into the PS5 console to expand its storage. This was great news for PS5 users, as out of the box the console only comes with an 875GB SSD, which after the space taken up by the system software, is not a lot of storage for gamers. Especially given the sheer size of this generation’s games, you don’t want to spend all that money on a PS5 and then run out of storage!
However, this good news about the option to add extra storage to the console was a double-edged sword, as it also came with a list of strict and specific requirements from Sony. These requirements meant that you couldn’t just install any SSD into the PS5, it had to be a PCIe Gen 4 M.2 NVMe drive and reach a minimum read speed of 5500MB/s. As well as that, one of the biggest recommendations which got the gaming community talking was that Sony said the SSD used for internal storage required effective heat dissipation by using a cooling structure, such as a heatsink.
In this article we want to look at the purpose of heatsinks, and whether you really need to use one.
