Gigabyte Technology announced its AORUS Gen4 7000s Solid-State Drives (SSDs) are fully compliant with Sony PlayStation 5 (PS5) M.2 storage expansion.

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AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD Unlocks PS5 Extensions

Easy installation to get high capacity with extreme performance and low temperature

August 24th, 2021 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, announces today that its AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD is fully compliant with PS5 M.2 storage expansion. With the read speed of 7000 MB/s and maximum storage capacity of 2 TB far beyond specification requirements, it allows users to enjoy the best gaming experience.

Enhanced by the latest generation PCIe 4.0 controller with advanced 3D-TLC NAND Flash, The AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD boosts more performance than previous generation PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD. It equips big aluminum thermal interface in different sizes and double side thermal pad with Nanocarbon coating for improved heat dissipation. In response to the latest announcement from Sony for the compatibility of M.2 SSD storage extensions on PS5, GIGABYTE engineers has further verified the original structure and performance of AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD to be the perfect choice of M.2 storage expansion for PS5. In addition, the read speed of up to 7000 MB/s ensures users with optimized data accessing and smoother gaming experience.

“In the current market, we see more and more PS5 games occupy lager than 100 GB capacity, which bothers users with insufficient space to install all their favorite games due to the storage capacity limitation of PS5. In this case, the PCIe™ 4.0 M.2 SSD expansion provides a smart solution for this trouble.”Said Jackson Hsu, Director of the GIGABYTE Channel Solutions Product Development Division. “AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD complies with PS5 expansion specifications in terms of appearance, performance and thermal design. It provides large capacity up to 2TB with easy installation, which allows users enjoy sufficient game storage space.”

AORUS Gen4 7000s SSDs have been launched to the market in the early 2021, and users who have already purchased can use it for PS5 storage expansion directly. GIGABYTE also updates the optimized firmware on the official site. Users can download the file from the following link to optimize their AORUS Gen4 7000s SSD for superior experience.

https://download.gigabyte.com/FileList/Utility/ssd_utility_firmware_update_tool_EIFM21.2.zip

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