Is this Worth $220? Seagate Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S Review + other options
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The fastest external storage for Xbox Series X and S is the Seagate Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S. But is it worth it?
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They legit brought back memory cards. The nostalgia lol
@@BigChief1529 facts. This is what monopoly looks like. Once more are out it'll hit the prices hard
Hmm I dont remember them being cheap. I was paying quite a bit for just 32MB lol
I literally had 2 buy a ps2 memory card its $3 on ebay this cost almost as much as an xbox series its fucking ridiculous this is worse imo than ps vita memory cards but then again I'm probably 1 of 19 people who owned a Vita
@@BigChief1529 search for an internal SSD for pc with the same specs. They are all around that price
@@BigChief1529 not even the same thing lol...memory cards were for save files and were 8MB.
No. Just buy a second xbox.
Smart man you are
200 IQ
Brilliant 💡
EXACTLY!!!
Just don’t buy any additional storage, and they’ll have no choice but to drop the price.
Next year there will be more options for storage and the price will definitely come down,I’d hang on for now
It's funny how everything to do with Series X is always just "wait, it'll get better"
@subie1822 you sound like a child 😉
@subie1822 spotted the Fanboy
@@Muskers92 i get that thought. But this option is better then Sony forcing you to play, delete, download again. No option to move a ps5 game around is horrible. They are the new apple when it comes to games. Xbox has its quirks, bit I'm alright with that.
true but cheaper ssd's come with cheaper type of ssd's
$200 for a 1TB storage card seems pretty steep
Much better of an offer than a 1TB SSD for $275
@@MicCheckMemoirs dude I just saw that for PS5 SSD and I'm like bruh. Almost $300 with Tax for an SSD.
@@mmm.3839 plus on series X/S is portable
I got a 4Tb for only 120. Wtf?
@@ivanexell-uz4mv that would be regular storage. The dedicated SSD card doesn't hold many games, but it's not necessarily meant for that. It is meant to put on newer games that work off the "Instant Resume" feature. These are the Series S or X optimized games. You're meant to put one to three games on it, games that you typically play and will use the speed/loading features of newer games. I have a 3tb storage from a previous xbox now on my Series X, and it holds my games until I want to play them exclusively, at which point I transfer them to the dedicated SSD drive in my Series X. The SSD card in this video adds to that particular storage only.
For me this expansion card is a must get whether you have a Series X or S you got to take advantage of that next-gen speed. Just add an external hard drive for gamepass as well. The more the merrier
How much extra games can you put on it? I’m thinking about buying one soon but if if i can’t store a lot more games on my Series X then I’ll wait till it goes on sale.
@@DERKJ789 it has more usable storage than the onboard storage of the series X so you get the idea because it also depends what games you install.
@@fightnight14 i only play sports games nfl, wrestling & NBA!! But when they make more new games I’ll be getting those!! What do you think though? Should i go out & buy it now or wait a few months in case they make another one with bigger memory?
@@DERKJ789 Just depends how big your library is right now and what games you currently play. I have one now for my Series S and its not full but I like the idea of having more fast storage that can play Series X/S titles for future use.
@@DERKJ789 you can wait for price cuts or more storage. Im not sure if they will make one though
Apple sells their amazing wheels kit for $699. Oh, and they also have a stand for $999. So an 1TB SSD for $220 is really cheap.
But you can still buy a much faster pcie 4.0 ssd for 130$.
@@geiers6013 where sounds good to me
@@timothyweakly2496 I live in germany. It is the adata xpg gammix s50 light 1tb on mindfactory. But I am sure prices in europe should be similar. Just go to a comparison site and filter cheapesr 1tb pcie 4.0 ssd.
@@geiers6013 awesome thanks bud.
Damn what a shill. 1tb for 220 is fucking highway robbery.
For the people wondering Microsoft is definitely going to make bigger and smaller sizes they’ve stated essentially they just wanted to pair it with the base 1TB to see feedback and such and without a doubt I’d imagine they’ll have a range of 500gb-4tb soon enough. As well as many people don’t trust 3ed party software, many will definitely come out although I don’t think at a much cheaper price simply because they have to compete with sea gate while still being able to fully process the gpu usage of the Xbox but without a doubt some will release and lower the price a bit at the least
Still waiting…
It seems like they have partnered with sea gate for the moment at least
@@danieljohnson4530 i think on their Xbox/Microsoft website they have a 512gb,1tb,and 2tb ssd
They all drip feed technology the xbox one could start with a 20tb....... think.
Very informative, I was researching about this expansion storage and I have a Seagate 2TB HDD usb 3.0 with all my xbox one games. I am getting the xbox series x and the expansion storage as well for black Friday.
Key word HDD. The new consoles are basically NVMe speeds SSD. That's why the cost is expensive. HDD is dirt cheap but is good for storage. If your talking about gaming then you have to get SSD or constantly keep swapping data from HDD to internal memory.
I also bought a 2TB NVMe SSD with an external enclosure to put it in so I can use it as an external storage for better transfers between the Xbox Series X internal and the Seagate Expansion 1TB card compare to slower transfer of an external HDD. If you’re tight on a budget then that 5TB HDD is the best way to go. I guess I’m too impatient to wait 26 minutes on transferring games, but it’s definitely faster than downloading it from the internet 😅
i'll wait for them to make a 2 tb or a 4 tb for the same price.
Good luck
@@Speedkilla22 I didn't wait LOL
You’ll have a long wait
@@alexwilliams7530 I didn't.
Dam I’m on the fence between waiting or not cause ima regret copping if they do drop those
I purchased the expansion card same day and hooked the 4 TB HD from my Xbox One to the Series X. I probably spent too much time shuffling files around, but I came out with a system that makes sense to me: internal - Series X|S games, expansion - Series X|S overflow & frequent older games, external HD: everything else. I hope 🤞🏼 2 TB is good enough for this generation.
Was it enough?
@@Chris-db5gy meh if you don’t mind deleting the games you play the least, 1TB is enough
I've noticed the expansion card on sale at Target and a few other retailers for $179.99, so it appears there is a pretty decent margin for retailers to play with. This isn't surprising because there's a problem for console makers producing all digital systems that cut retailers out of the software sales. (Microsoft has entered a profit sharing agreement with Gamestop to incentivize them to make hardware sales without any hope of getting a direct share of the software revenue.) One way to keep retailers on board is to jack up accessory prices. Sony tried to do this with PS Vita memory cards but went way too far and damaged the platform instead.
As Microsoft mentioned in their Hot Chips presentation, they chose to go heavy on SSD storage than increasing RAM to an amount comparable to past generations because the cost of flash memory was dropping more rapidly than RAM prices. (The Xbox 360 had 8X the RAM of the first Xbox, and the Xbox One has 16X the RAM of the 360, but the Series X only has 2X the RAM of the Xbox One and only a 33% increase over the One X.) The place Microsoft is expecting to enable the first price cut of the Series X is the SSD. When that happens there should be a similar price cut of the storage expansion card, which is nearly identical other than being package for human handling. If the Series X goes down to $450, then it wouldn't be surprising to see the expansion drop to $170. Perhaps by the next holiday season if flash memory prices continue to drop at a good pace.
I plan on getting one expansion card eventually so I don't have to do much swapping between hard drives and do all the rest on external HDs
Funny. I actually bought 2 of those (now older) WD Black USB drives that were for Xbox ... my for PCs! You can also plug-n-play them into Windows 10. The 12 TB model had 200+ MB/s write speeds. One of them I used as a backup for my network share. The other is secondary storage for my main PC. Though it's no ssd, still very cheap and fairly fast large amount of storage at around ~$250-300 depending on sales.
Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day
I just jumped from xbox 1 and got the digital series s and ordered this 2tb so far happy just getting ready for some heavy gaming
I read that Seagate had a one year exclusive rights agreement to be the sole supplier for Xbox Series X Console expansion ssd cards which ends this December 2021.
Looking forward to many other electronic suppliers releasing newer, more reasonably priced ssd cards, to get more storage options out in the hands of consumers.
i hope so
Which must’ve really backfired as a deal, given how hard it has been to acquire next-gen consoles this year.
They pkayed their cards well not gonna lie i almost folded and bought an overpriced one
@@user-zs8nz7gt4c why did you find a cheap one ? seagate are still the only ones i can find
@@jamesharnish650 frrrr
I’m thinking in the next couple of years they will be cheaper and hopefully offer more storage. I’m so used to having a 5TB external drive, which I am now using for all backward compatible games, that I can’t bring myself to spend it on 1tb...even if it is super fast. I’d probably only do it if I got to a point where the games are astronomically huge....which could happen in the next few years
A 5TB SSD card is extremly expensive, like $800+
Thank you for a fast and informative video!!! 🥳
I'm perfectly fine with the USB 3.0 drives and transferring games back and forth as needed. I can find something to do for 5 minutes.
That’s fine, but you lose the quick load times and quick resume feature if you don’t have this specific drive.
About 8 games crippled my XSX hard drive and while having an external USB SSD drive or Mechanical is fine, it’s simply not enough if you want to have your games available immediately.
$220 is expensive , but having it provides a much cleaner setup and not I can have another 8-9 100GB games instantly available.
*Correction*
You can quick resume from an external usb standard drive, albeit slower vs an SSD. Only specific “SERIES X/S” games whether they’re from last gen or current must be on the internal drive or the slotted one.
For example , Gears 5, Halo MCC will not work “Series X 4K 100+ fps” from any external drive and MUST be internal
@@tears2040 false
@@tears2040 you can't play next gen games directly off a hard drive anyway, only store that's what I think Daniel booke meant, just transfer as needed. You can still play previous gen games off one, but like you said just wouldn't have the quick load times or quick resume features. But a 90 dollar 4 tb hard drive sounds better to me than a 220 dollar 1 tb ssd. (Concidering trying to stay on a budget lol)
the future is now old man
Microsoft needs to implement a storage optimization function with all of these expansion cards and HD support. It should be as simple as adding a card and hard drive, Xbox says you have a storage (pool) of X TB then moves files around to optimize. Microsoft had a technology in the past in Windows that grouped your storage devices to abstract it away to a set of content folders.
oh so like raid?
I bought one cause I was running out of space I didn’t wanna uninstall and install every-time I say it’s worth it if you need more space. The price is alittle unfair though.
I did an external storage drive that I got refurbished at less than 100 for 4 TB, but like Jordan says. It's more to move stuff around. You have to leave space on the SSD, to move Games around when you want to play them. But for sure it is way faster than installing them.
Is coping the game from external to internal pretty effective?
Need higher capacity or lower price, $220 for 1TB (even NVMe) is pretty pricey especially since it will only be compatible with series s/x (i.e. can't use it as an external pc ssd).
Understand this drive has some unique features vs USB SSDs, but pricing is still pretty steep regardless.
I have series s, I keep all my games on a 2 tb external hard drive and then keep my couple of newer games on internal
Hi, is your 2tb external HD SSD or prior?
Don't have an SX but on PS5 i just took a 2TB NVME Drive and put it in a USB case with some thermal pads. About the same price as the SX card and you still get the faster loading times at least for last gen games anyway.
Great video, thank you
3 years later theyre still 100$ a tb.. like its fucking 2013
I'd like to see a 4 tb expansion for series x. Then it would be the same as my Xbox One expansion through usb.
Yeah
A 4tb ssd would cost (at least in pc terms) a minimum of 419.99. You are at that point almost paying for an entire other console.
@@CJ-ix3tw nooo
it’s gonna work for the xbox series x as well the 4 tb expansion
@@CJ-ix3tw I payed that much for the 4tb hdd years back for the Xbox One.
I had two 1 TB external hard drives for my Xbox one that I kept once I got my series s, and connected them to the new console. They work just as fine as these, as far as I can tell
So you can use the regular drives to move games back and forth to the console storage? But not storage directly on the console?
My IT professor thought me to never overpay for storage solutions. He says in the early 2000’s he remembered paying hundreds of dollars for a 1gb usb flash drive
Yeah just wait a year a two the price will have lowered by then
@@crashed6510 year or two? More like 10 🤣
@@crashed6510 still expensive today.
@@crashed6510Still the same price
@@RobbertNstill expensive today
Almost anything is worth it if you have the money and it’s something you really want.
I have the money but it'd not worth the price for the amount of storage. I just got a XBSX last week. I had no idea about this storage issue, had I, I would have tried harder for a PS5. $400 for a 2 TB SSD expansion is ridiculous for my taste. I've been with Xbox since the original and these last two systems have made me look closer at Sony and moreso a PC.
My external non SSD Hard Drive loads game really fast also. Just use the internal SSD for the next gen games and you’re set.
Why don't you check how much is a 1TB "NVMe" SSD that's not the Xbox accessory, they are priced pretty close, so don't say it's expensive, NVMe SSDs are pricey for now regardless of who makes them
I would wait for cheaper 3rd parties options.
3rd party options means cheaper ssd build quality
I would never trust 3rd parties with proprietary stuff. I just wish that they would make bigger drives
@@rishabhmulay5230 It should have been 2 or 3 TB
@@Happyland_Motel_Gamer_Cat Yes, maybe they could make the SSDs physically bigger if that’s the issue
Rishabh Mulay just wait for other people to be the guinea pigs and read the reviews. I have 2 external HHD’s that aren’t branded for Xbox that had great reviews. I actually found that the Xbox branded HHD’s didn’t have as good of reviews as the generic ones. There are times that you actually get better quality with certain aftermarket items. With something like this I’m sure there will be some pretty solid aftermarket options.
Not to be stupid but is this card basically a SDD hard drive? I'm using an older Xbox 4t external hard drive and want to know if there is any advantage of using a card over an external drive?
Yooo quick question does yours fit in all the way where there’s no metal showing? Mine goes in basically all the way but there is still some of the segate card that’s exposed @ the very end I couldn’t tell at 1:41
Thankfully my download speed is great so if I need to clear space I just uninstall a game I've not played in a while. If I want to play it again, I just download it in 20-30 mins
Ill just wait til they release the adapter
Hi one question that card wd black Can perfectly work with the quick resume on Xbox series x ?
I expected transferring to the expansion card to be quicker. That’s time isn’t that far off from using a Samsung T5, which is a runs at 550MB per second.
It's the normal price for a high speed 1tb ssd. Some people look at sata ssd and think is the same.
Man I'd pay top dollar for 4 or 5 tb.
Some games require you to swap from the external drive to the internal drive just to play
I still have plenty of space on my internal storage that my xbox series x came with. If I bought a seagate ssd thats designed for the storage expansion slot on the back of the console and transferred my games to that from the internal storage would it increase loading speeds/performance ?
It’s only so expensive now because Seagate has a monopoly over the storage expansion slot, I would just wait.
To much expensive 220$ for such a small 1T memory
eh, I bought & am happy with the extra 1tb space
I think What I may do is that when I get the Series X, I may just put the games Optimized for it on the Xbox, and fill it with whatever else I can that I'm interested in playing, then put other games on my 2TB hard drive. I'll wait it out till larger (and hopefully) cheaper options are available. This vid has been very helpful. Thank you.
Same
please help me understand. if i buy and use the seagate storage, can i play the games from said storage or would i have to move them to the internal storage in order to play them?
I've been looking all over the internet for the answer to the question: Does the card actually have a full 1tb (1000gb) of storage or is it one of those 900~950gb once formatted deals? Haven't seen anyone talk about this anywhere.
I bought it recently and there’s between 900-920 gb available, hope that helps 👍
@@danewag Thanks. Appreciated.
I don't like how the extended storage only has a 1 TB option. I wish 2, 3, and 4 were also available.
Especially for $220, you should be getting at least 2 TB on that external.
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@@bacaveli Because that's the cost of an SSD for that speed and size anywhere..
Welcome to next gen gaming it's gonna be expensive..
The price will drop thou
@@bacaveli ive gotten 4 TB of storage from seagate it was around $115
@@arianaherrera9232 yea but that wont play next gen games…
Will it make my console run faster and smoother so I can an extra advantage in CoD?
what you cant do is use the usable storage on the series for only next gen titles but still save other last gen games on to a hard drive or SSD
You can buy a 10 terabyte harddrive that will work for the series x and one for 120$. I filled half of 10 terabytes with games lol.
I got a series x this week, and we'll I had to get one of these cause I hate deleting games and making space haha
I'm so tempted cause it's SO annoying. But I'm too cheap lol. Hoping there's a price reduction or different options / sizes available later in the year.
P.s. do you get a full 1TB with the expansion card?
@@itsChannel2K00L14 since then I bought two. It's definitely pricey, still no 3rd party yet, but maybe in another 6 months there will be. But I'm willing to pay for that speed. It transfers very quick. 100 gig games transfer in 3 mins
That's how much an NVM.e with that write speed and storage space costs. 1 TB drives that small are not that cheap.
Idk about the speed but a nvme ssd that size i can get in most cases for under $200 the only difference is that the ones I seen weren't from Seagate & didn't have a external case or papriatory plug. It was just the part.
Cheaper than Sony’s solution too.
I’m using this now on my series S but I’m about to get a series X soon and I wanted to know if I could take this out of my series S and use it on my series X?
I play one game at a time..so when it is played out I delete and never touch it again.
You look like Ryan Reynolds
Using the internal and expansion card for all my X optimized games. Using a 3.2 NVMe 2TB Samsung T7 for all the One X games that I play a lot. And using a Seagate Xbox 2TB HDD for all the One, 360 and OG Xbox games I don't play too much.
Lol nice. I have a 12tb hdd that has all my stuff. Waiting for higher storage solution for series x speeds but everything im currently playing is on the internal.
Video says its asking if the Seagate Expansion for Xbox Seres XlS is worth buying.... but is actually just a five minute advert for the External WD Black P10.
When transferring a game from a external hard drive does it take the same time as installing it ??
Seagate SSD card is working great. I highly recommend it if you can afford it.
@@user-pd4ds6ky5j then don’t buy it my dude
@@user-pd4ds6ky5j then delete and redownlod
I bought this but decided to return. I’m just going to be cheap and delete and reinstall stuff. Also when I realized the hard drive was 44% of the cost of the system that was enough for me
aint a harddrive its an ssd
Do those help. With recording for 1hour ?
So the same price as the ps5 memory.. but you can actually use the xbox memory vs ps5?
I wish they would’ve released a 2 TB Expansion Card from the beginning. I’ll wait for that one and that should be more than enough for the life of my XSX.
They did
@@Bendova215 Oh, yeah? Where do they sell it?
@@joeliphone3 I’ve seen it on Amazon for 299
@@Bendova215 It’s not the Expansion Card that connects directly to the back of the system. You might be talking about a different external drive that connects through USB A.
@@joeliphone3 did you get the 2 tb now? Lol
I just think 1 Tb isn't as good as 1.8 Tb for next gen but it's nothing like a good old fashion memory card😁
It's better than my 32 memory card for my ps2.
Does it need wifi for transfering the data ?
I mean i never have done that and i just want to buy a Storage Expansion for the Reason that i bought Series S and ones the Store goes done i lose all games i bought i don't want that
So my question is if i picked up the WD Black HHD and i transfered all my games on it either them Beeing worked for the Series S or XBox One can i just transfer the data without wifi
Can you play x/s optimised games on the seagate one cause I can’t on the other hard drive and it’s really annoying having to delete games
Your video didn’t really answer the title... imo it’s worth the price, find me another nvme ssd at that speed for that price.
Almost all nvme drives at that size are much cheaper.
@@05DonnieB There is no nvme drive that size with that amount of storage, or those speeds. There is only one drive that reaches that speed and storage capacity and its from Samsung and its 3 times the size.
@@johnj8639 you're kidding right? Maybe you are thinking about PS5 in which case its SSD can reach 5500mb/s read speed raw, but the Xbox is only rated at 2400 mb/s. Here is but one example of which you can easily find even cheaper ones. Not only is it much cheaper, it is much faster. www.newegg.com/western-digital-black-sn750-nvme-1tb/p/N82E16820250110
@@05DonnieBon sale and second hand.
@@05DonnieB I don't know where you heard 2400mb/s but that's not true. Same with the Playstation number. The Xbox has a peak of roughly 29,600mb/s and the Playstation has a peak of 44,000mb/s - another way is 3.7GB/s (Xbox) or 5.5GB/s (Playstation). The drive you list costs $180, and only reaches 3.4GB/s - it is slower than the xbox.
SSD's weren't very cheap when they first came out. Specially not at 1tb. So I'd say its worth every penny.
I like PS5's option, but its lack of heat sink in the memory compartment worries me.
You dont need a heatsync for even fast ssds, because they are designed to get hot. How can this Ssd be worth it, when you can buy similar 1tb ssds for under 100$?
@@geiers6013 ALL 1TB Nvme PCIe 4.0 drives are all around the $200 price point right now (both PS5 and XSX|S are using PCIe 4 from the AMD SoC)
@@robertnees9781 Its all about the speed. Nothing else matters. Microsoft decided to give the customer no choice, so you have to buy a completely overprised Ssd. But keep on fanboying. A Ssd with the same speeds at 1tb is worth 100$, for example the Samsung 970 evo pcie 3.0.
Doesnt the expansion slot on the PS5 have enough room to accomodate an NVME with heatsink ?. It looked like the slot was deep enough in the breakdown video Sony did, could of just been the angle though.
@@geiers6013 your wrong. The nvme's that are actually compatible with a PS5 are the exact same price or more then the seagate for the XSX.
To save even more money...take advantage of the Microsoft rewards program...just by doing the daily games and incurring points I bought the 1tb card on Microsoft points....200k equals to $200 dollars...now I am going to save towards the 2tb card
What happens when you remove it is there a setting you have to click to safely remove it?
Hyping up accessories for next gen consoles when the BOTS have all the systems.
I am making my own ssd drive WITH a 5tb 89.99
yeah good luck with that
@@WandererHermit I have works a treat just got part from eBay and got someone to build it for me as I don't know how just bypass the system and the whole 5tb to use compare to a bloody 1tb most people are doing it and it 100% fine to do no law breaking.
@@gunshipzeroone3546 bullcrap detected
My green Xbox expansion hard drive doesn’t even work for the new Xbox series x games. You have got to install of internal storage which really freaking sucks. So I now have to go out and buy a new one
Just put a external hard drive on. I put mine on the series s. Now I have 4 tb
You can’t play enhanced games on them, this is made for people who want to store series x/s games
@@supermasterfighter we know we watched the video stfu
People are going to complain about the pricing, but these are PCI-E 4.0 drives. 1 TB PCIe-4 for PC are $200, throw in the custom interface adapter and plastic.... $229 is about right.
The Ssd of the Xbox is not faster than pcie 3.0 drives. So the external drive is exactly worth 100$.
@@geiers6013 no, but it’s pie-4.0, which is priced at $200 for a Sabre to rocket 1 TB on Amazon... which is typically one of the lower cost drives. It’s not about speed, it’s about the hardware support.
@@mindinversions4487 Its all about the speed. Nothing else matters. Microsoft decided to give the customer no choice, so you have to buy a completely overprised Ssd. But keep on fanboying. A Ssd with the same speeds at 1tb is worth 100$, for example the Samsung 970 evo pcie 3.0.
@@geiers6013 Speed has no effect on price. Only hardware specification. There’s a reason the drives cost double a PCI-E 3.0 drive of the same size... whether you like it or not. it’s not specific to the Series X.... it crosses over into PlayStation and PC land as well. I don’t know if it’s the type of NAND flash they’re using, or the controller design to support the PCI-e 4.0 spec... but apples to apples they’re the same general price across all platforms. Just because you don’t see the VALUE doesn’t mean it’s not priced competitively for the technology involved. It just means that subjectively to YOU it’s worth less, and you’re more than welcome to not pay it.
@@geiers6013 It is PCIe 4.0 technology, same as the PS5, Sony PS5 qualified 1TB expansion drives are the same price right now...
Does the expansion card act as additional space to the hard drive or a separate storage so for instance with the Xbox one x I had bought an external hard drive and in some cases during updates of call of duty it couldn’t determine which hard drive had the content and resulted the game to say I haven’t got that particular files installed so in saying that the Xbox has a choice to choose play games from external or hard itself so my main question does it add to the Xbox hard drive space or a separate storage space
Quick question I have the series x so the only way to use the optimized games is earthier switching them in the internal or seagate’s external hard drive?
That is correct. If you don’t want to get an expansion card, get a larger and cheaper external drive and then when you want to play a game move stuff around. That way you don’t have to re-download games, but you can get that series s/x enhancement. This works better if you are the type of person to play one or two games for a longer period of time before moving on, of course.
What is worth more in terms of cost versus benefit 1 terabyte or 2 terabyte?
I’m waiting cause I feel a few months or alleged next year the might have a expansion card with more room
They sell a 2tb one
@@Bendova215 that’s news to me
But the price of the 2 tb is quite high and will drop down quite a bit over time to become more affordable
@@Bendova215 do they? I’ve only seen them advertised 1tb ones
@@micromaniac6919 wait fo they have a 2 tb version? I’ve only seen them advertised a 1tb one
$225 hell no
I'd pay 225 if it was a 2tb expansion
@@Bomberninja that is a lot off money
So when I get the series x and the expansion card I can transfer all my games that are on my current external hard drive to that expansion card?
Hello so when i play a game that’s on my external hard drive it kicks me out then says “ external hardrive ready “ but it’s all ready plugged in
I bought the expansion! I'm sure it's super fast
I did as well, but sadly I'm already regretting it because of the price point. It damn sure better be worth it. I already have a ton of games that are series x enhanced but all of them won't fit and that's what's really getting under my skin.
@@313Martin would you say it’s worth it?
@@GrimAbstract if you have the extra money to spend then I would say it's worth it
Lol. $359.00 Australian 🤪. Seriously!...
I loaded an external 1tb hdd with my backwards compatible games and Im running my old games from there. I will install only series games in the ssd and the card. If you go the same route you'll probably have more leeway with the X for a while. Both cyberpunk and forza are about 70gb so that's 1/3 of the S' internal memory. I may buy another hdd in the future just to backup and manage next gen series games if I end up loading the seagate card.
Cyberpunk is over 100+ GB and Forza 7 is 98GB, Forza Horizon 4 base game is 79GB and believe it actually goes higher with all the added content.
Not sure where you got your information......
I would like to make sure if u can have both a USB drive and the ssd drive
I just can't mentally be comfortable spending $220 only for 1tb.
That's about the market price for an SSD of it's price now. The question is, will they get cheap in line with other SSDs
@@alexlyster3459 No the market price of that seagate ssd is not more than 100$
@@geiers6013 I just did some searching on Amazon. They are close to $200, unless there is a sale. SSD is not cheap.
@@UndgnfiedWrshpr Amazon hardware prices are overpriced af haha.
@@geiers6013 okay, then post a link to where a person can get 1T SSD for $100.
At this price guys just buy a Xbox series S as your SSD ;)
That'd be a waste considering for $100 less you'd get 1TB, while the Series S is 512
@@Moogetsuu 324gb of usable storage…
that means Xbox took a loss for selling consoles.
What are the read and write speed for expansion card?
You literally informed me of nothing
I only play 2 - 3 games at a time at most so I just uninstall the games which I don't play.
Exactly. People forget that just because its uninstalled doesnt mean you dont still have it.
not everyone had the data coverage to be downloading and deleting games
@@mrspoopy3227 ik I'm just saying what I would do
Eeeeeeexactly
Data coverage? I have 1gb/sec ( most of the time 1.2 gb/sec) unlimited data in the USA.
Umm please help so I’m getting a Xbox series s and I just wanna add more storage not add the old games from my Xbox one and my question is if I get the old one that you have to plug in to have more storage using a USB port and not the new 200$ one will everything still run the same like quick resume, the fast load times, and the good graphics will all of those things still work properly??
Just wait for Black Friday or cyber Monday you can get the 2tb expansion card for the price of the 1 tb
It's actually a good price considering what you're getting with read and write speeds and how easily it integrates and I doubt you'd see much difference in prices finding a comparable SSD to the Seagate drive. The problem is people automatically look at the price tag and compare it to something like the WDs drives which are way way slower.
Corsair MP600 is much cheaper and faster than the Xbox SSD, and that's after Corsair have taken their margin.
@@coolduderules Much cheaper? Where?
@@coolduderules Really?? An external Gen4 SSD thats cheaper.....Please tell us where this imaginary land that you live in is!
@@cody9883 Xbox Ssd speeds are only pcie 3.0 level...
@@geiers6013 That is incorrect, the XSX are using PCIe4 for the SSDs, WD is using a custom version of the Xbox internal SSD to supply pcie 4 support, almost 4GB read speed max in theory, w/ Xbox using about 2.4GB in uncompressed data right now... of course to achieve that in games, the developer has to re-factor the storage interface of their games (same for PS5). Thus the expansion storage slot is also using PCIe4 as the data rates are the same to the internal drive. (Note: a lot of original media posts stated they were using PCIe3 and that was just incorrect.)
It’s worth it