Adata Atom 50 SSD

PROS

• Excellent real-world performance. • PS5 compatible.

CONS

• A couple of Gbps slower on PCIE 4 synthetic

benchmarks.

• PS5 doesn’t support HMB.

BOTTOM LINE

The Atom 50 was second-tier on synthetic benchmarks, but tied for number one in our real-life transfer tests over PCIE 4. Nice. It’s affordable and PS5 compatible, but uses HMB (your PC’S DRAM) for primary cache, which the PS5 does not support. Hence, there might be a small drop in performance inside Sony’s console.

$120