Sony PS5 teardown video: removable sides, dust catches, and SSD storage

Sony has published a cardinal-minute teardown video of the PS5. The teardown gives us the best aspect at the PS5 so far, including all of its home parts and how the sides are removable. Yasuhiro Ootori, head of Sony's mechanical design for the PS5, leads the teardown in Japanese, noting that the entire rear of the PS5 is designed to exhaust air out of the console.

Sony is exploitation a base on the PS5 that's held in with a piece of tail when it's oriented vertically and clipped to the side of the console if you're planning to use it horizontally. The white panels happening either face of the console can be easily removed by lifting and sliding them off. This reveals the main cooling fan at the top of the PS5, which can draw in air from either side. Sony is also using two dust catchers which can be vacuumed out direct two holes.

The teardown also gives USA a first look at elastic storage finished an M.2 time slot that's getatable erst you remove the side panels. PS5 owners will be able to buy out their possess PCIe 4.0 compatible drives to upgrade reposition in the next-gen console.

The rest of Sony's teardown TV also reveals retributive how usable this console will be. It's clean-handed Sony has thoughtfully designed this to seduce reparability and serviceability slow. The Blu-ray drive can Be well removed, and even the processor, memory, and SSD sections are easy to approach. The 350-watt power supply can also be removed easily.

The cooling winnow Sony is using in spite of appearanc the PS5 is a large 120mm diameter, 45mm thick, double-sided air intake. Sony is also using a heatsink to help with cooling, with flow of air that Sony says should "accomplish the same performance as a vapor chamber." The PS5 also uses liquid metal for chilling performance, which should also help cut down on the typical sports fan randomness saved on the PS4.

Sony says it has spent two years working along this graceful metal cooling, with varied tests to ensure IT's a stable lasting-term root. It's a caloric music director that sits between the SoC and heat sink and should assistanc significantly with the cooling performance.

*Liquid metal temperature reduction on the PS5.*

Early hands-on videos and impressions suggested that the soothe ran lull and cool during the limited gameplay that Japanese publishers and YouTubers were able to live recently.

Sony says information technology has spent five years artful and developing the PS5 and has focused on reducing noise levels and enhancing its cooling methods. That's encouraging to try as the previous PS4 Pro suffered from noise problems that Sony quietly self-addressed with updated models.

"We've also highlighted the mechanism in the video that we've merged into the PS5 console table to pass wate the operating sounds even quieter," explains Masayasu Ito, head of hardware engineering and operation at Sony Interactive Entertainment. "After an extensive and complex trial and error process, we were proud with the end result and I can non waitress for our fans to let their custody on the PS5 console and 'see' IT for themselves."

Sony's PlayStation 5 console will go on sales event for $499 ($399 for the Digital Version) in the US connected November 12th, with a launch in Europe and other parts of the world on November 19th.