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I don't have a plalystation 5 console yet, interested in getting one, but I do have a question that seems to have conflicting answers.

Is the playstation 5 disc drive paired to the motherboard?

Some say yes and some say no. Who knows for sure?

I ask this because I don't have a problem swapping out a motherboard and a disc drive, but I find it hard to believe that Sony would go down this path. With playstation 3 and 4, you left the daughter board in and took out the disc drive if it broke which I have done on both systems.

So with every disc version playstation 5 sold to consumers, we all will have to get motherboards and disc drives which will cost almost as much as a playstation 5 console if the disc drive breaks?

There is no daughter board with the playstation 5. Or can you switch disk drives and everything still works?

So if you have a playstation 5 console with a disc drive, does it make more sense to just get another console of the same type and do a data transfer or do you spend the money and get a paired playstation 5 console and disc drive.

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I don't have a ps5 and don't want one due to the liquid metal leaking from the CPU issue. But, after having a Google it looks like the drive is replaceable.

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There is a daughterboard and it is paired to the motherboard, at least for the launch variant.

You can take the daughterboard off and only replace the mechanical part of the disc drive, that will be much cheaper.

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Does it depend on which disk drive model you have? I think Sony did like 4 versions. The latest one doesn't have as much copper for the heatsink as the launch model did.

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@gamekid Somebody needs to track Sony’s production changes to be able to answer that.

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After doing a lot of research on google, either this is just on the launch models or Sony and Microsoft for that matter, are trying to prevent piracy from happening.

I don't like the idea of that, but if that is the price we all pay for having a playstation 5 or xbox series x, that's what it is.

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@gamekid No need to worry, you can always take the daughterboard off the drive, why would you replace the whole drive anyway?

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