Fanxiang markets its S660, S880R and S790R NVMe lines as PS5-compatible, each shipping with an integrated heatsink. We track 12 in-stock Fanxiang PS5 listings today. Fanxiang carries our unfamiliar-brand flag on every ranking page in this cluster - not an accusation, a disclosure that the name has no track record on our recognised-manufacturer list.
Prices updated 路 live figures refresh every few hours
Our PS5 SSD cluster is eighteen pages deep - a cheapest ranking, a deals page, capacity picks, a heatsink guide, a compatibility breakdown - and none of them names the specific brand that most often holds the price floor at the budget end. Fanxiang shows up repeatedly across that cluster's tables, marked with the same unfamiliar-brand flag every unrecognised name gets, and until now the only way to learn more about the name behind that flag was to leave the PS5 cluster entirely.
This page does not change any ranking, any flag, or any figure elsewhere in the cluster. It applies the cluster's own existing findings - Sony's published requirement, the heatsink arbitrage, the brand flag - to one specific brand, and links out to the fuller sourcing on the Fanxiang brand page rather than repeating it.
Fanxiang markets its S660, S880R and S790R lines explicitly as PS5-compatible, and every listing we track ships with an integrated heatsink sized for the console's expansion bay. That is the vendor's own claim, stated on the listing rather than independently verified by us line by line.
What we can verify independently is the specification each model advertises against Sony's own published requirement, which is the section immediately below.
Every figure on this page is drawn from the same shared library the rest of our PS5 SSD pages use - fetchPs5Ssds() for live listings, getPs5Deals() for verdict badges, and getHeatsinkArbitrage() for the bare-versus-fitted arithmetic. We filter those results to Fanxiang rather than running a separate calculation, so a number here and the same number on the cheapest or deals page will never quietly drift apart.
That matters more than it might sound, because a page that recomputed its own version of an existing finding would eventually disagree with the original by accident - a stale query, a slightly different filter, a rounding difference - and a reader comparing the two pages would have no way to know which was right. Reusing the exact function closes that gap by construction rather than by diligence.
| Requirement | Sony publishes | Fanxiang advertises |
|---|---|---|
| Interface | PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe | PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe (maker claim) |
| Sequential read | 5,500MB/s minimum | Up to 5,000-7,450MB/s depending on model (maker claim) |
| Cooling | Heat-dissipation structure required | Integrated heatsink on every listing we track |
| Physical size | Within published bay dimensions | M.2 2280, marketed as PS5-fitting |
Sony's requirement per Sony's own PS5 M.2 SSD support page. Fanxiang's advertised read speed varies by model - our S660 page states 5,000MB/s specifically for that line; other capacities/models in our table below carry their own listed figure. We do not independently verify these claims unit by unit; membership in our PS5-eligible set is built against Sony's published list, which these listings meet on paper.
Our PS5 SSD deals page computes, live, whether a fitted drive or a bare drive plus a standalone heatsink is cheaper at each capacity we track on both sides. We reuse that same computation here rather than re-deriving it - the figures below come directly from getHeatsinkArbitrage(), the shared function the deals page itself calls.
No capacity currently has both a bare-plus-heatsink comparison and a Fanxiang listing as the cheapest fitted option - see the live deals page for the current picture across every brand.
Fanxiang is not on the list of brands we recognise as established storage manufacturers - the same list our cheapest PS5 SSD ranking checks against every row. That is a disclosure, not an accusation: some flagged brands are smaller manufacturers we simply have no track record on, and the marked rows on our cheapest-PS5-SSD table include those. It is that you should know when you are buying a name without a track record, worded identically to how that flag reads everywhere else in this cluster.
This page exists partly so a reader who hits that flag on our cheapest PS5 SSD page or the deals page has somewhere to find out more about the specific name, rather than only a flag with no further detail. For who makes Fanxiang, what controller and NAND are inside its drives, and what the published warranty terms actually say, see the Fanxiang brand page - the full sourcing lives there, not here.
Sony's published PS5 requirement makes no mention of cache architecture at all - only interface, read speed, cooling and physical size. Whether a drive carries a dedicated DRAM chip, borrows host memory over Host Memory Buffer, or relies on SLC caching alone is a fact about the drive's construction that the console does not check and a compliant drive does not need. ServeTheHome's teardown of the S660 found no DRAM chip on the board - it uses dynamic SLC caching instead, carved from the drive's own NAND rather than a separate chip. See our DRAM cache vs DRAM-less explainer for what that distinction means in practice and which of the other drives in this cluster's tables carry which architecture.
We could not source the same detail for the S880R or S790R - Fanxiang's own product pages returned a DNS resolution failure on every rendered read attempt this session, and no independent teardown of either model exists that we could find. Both are carried as unverified on the Fanxiang brand page rather than assumed to share the S660's design.
We publish no verdict on that question in either direction. What we can tell you: Fanxiang markets its drives as meeting Sony's PS5 requirement, our catalogue shows current prices and stock, and Fanxiang carries our unfamiliar-brand flag on every ranking page in this cluster because it is not on the list of manufacturers we recognise as established. See our Fanxiang brand page for the sourced facts - who makes it, what's inside, what the warranty says - and draw your own conclusion.
Sony's published requirement is PCIe Gen4 x4 NVMe, a sequential read floor of 5,500MB/s, a heat-dissipation structure, and a physical size within the console's expansion bay. Fanxiang's advertised specifications meet each of those on paper - see the comparison table above. We do not independently test compliance; membership in our PS5-compatible set is built against Sony's published list, and Fanxiang's listings meet it.
At some capacities, yes, per our live cheapest-PS5-SSD ranking; at others, a different budget brand currently prices lower. See our cheapest PS5 SSD page for the current picture, which updates independently of this page.
Every Fanxiang listing we track already ships with a heatsink fitted, so this choice does not currently apply to Fanxiang specifically the way it does to brands selling bare M.2 sticks. The wider bare-versus-fitted arithmetic, including whether Fanxiang holds the cheapest fitted position at a given capacity, is computed live on our PS5 SSD deals page rather than restated here.
Because it is not on the list of brands we recognise as established storage manufacturers, the same criterion applied identically to every brand across our PS5 SSD cluster. The flag is not an accusation - it is a disclosure that the name has no track record on our list, so you know which part of the market you are looking at, whatever the actual quality of that specific manufacturer turns out to be.
We publish no recommendation. The live table above shows every Fanxiang model, capacity and price we track; our S660 model page has the sourced hardware detail for the one model we could independently verify.
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