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The PS5 currently costs 649.90 euros in large stores in Spain. The digital version without Blu-ray drive, 599.90 euros. Both have an 825 GB SSD unit that for some users may fall short, but “fortunately”—the quotes are important At this time—it is possible to expand that section with an internal SSD drive. And therein lies the problem: these units They are today a luxury. This is demonstrated by the launch of the new SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 850Poffering capacities ranging from 1 to 8 TB and offering transfer speeds of up to 7,300 MB/s. All promising until you see the prices, because, attention: The 2 TB version costs 795.99 euros. That is 22.5% more than the console itself costs, but things are even worse if we talk about the 4 and 8 TB models: 1 TB: 397.99 euros 2 TB: 795.99 euros (22.5% more than the price of a PS5). 4 TB: 1,566.99 euros (You could buy two PS5s and you would have more than 250 euros left over) 8 TB: 3,088.99 euros (You could buy almost five PS5 or three PS5 Pro and have money left over) If the prices of RAM and SSD units already seemed crazy to us, these SanDisk units are an ode to the absurd. The saddest thing is to discover that they are not even close to the best SSD drives out there. That drive is twice as fast as the SanDIsk one, but its 1 TB version costs 799.99 euros. How crazy. We have models like the MP700 Pro XT from Corsair, which thanks to their support for the PCIe 5.0 standard achieve speeds up to 14,900 MB/smore than double those of SanDisk. And of course, they are also much more expensive: the 1 TB version costs 799.99 euros nowadays. Price evolution of an SSD unit very similar in performance to what SanDisk proposes for the PS5. If you want to get even more depressed, you can check the prices of units of this type a year ago. The SanDisk Optimus GX Pro 850P is virtually identical to the WD Black SN850X, and the 8TB variant went on sale in 2025 and was available for 600 euros: five times less. In fact, right now it is 1,200 euros on Amazon with limited availability. But that’s the world we’re in currently: the DRAM memory crisis and NAND chips have taken us to an “unsustainable” situation which is making us today buy memory modules or an SSD unit for our PC, laptop or even for our PS5 much more expensive than it was a year ago. And the worst thing is that all the experts say that things will get worse. Bad business. In Xataka | What is happening with the Raspberry Pi 5 is amazing but very real: they were born cheap, they are becoming luxury