IGN's deals section is highlighting a discounted 1TB PCIe 4.0 M.2 NVMe SSD suitable for expanding PlayStation 5 storage, currently available through Newegg's official AliExpress storefront for $136.39 with free shipping. Storage upgrades have become a near-essential purchase for PS5 owners, since individual games can take up to 100GB and it is easy to exhaust the console's built-in 1TB capacity, or even an additional 2TB drive.

The featured drive, the KingSpec XG7000, offers PCIe 4×4 speeds of up to 7,400MB/s read and 6,600MB/s write, comfortably exceeding Sony's recommended minimum of 5,500MB/s. Despite being a budget model without onboard DRAM, it uses TLC 3D NAND flash memory rather than the slower QLC found in many cheaper drives, and relies on system memory (HMB) for buffering instead. The current price undercuts Amazon's $169 listing for the same drive, though buyers must be signed in to AliExpress to see the discount, and Sony recommends fitting a heatsink, which is not included but can be bought separately for around $6.