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New 2TB and 512 GB Seagate Expansion Cards for Xbox Series X|S ($400 and $140 respectively) announced

nosseman

Member
$50 for 500 GB
$95 for 1 TB
$225 for 2 TB

2.4 GB/s read.


Gen 3.

Sony require Gen4 (and the SSD from Seagate is Gen4).

Perhaps it will work - perhaps it will not - but you can bet your ass on that if something does not work Sony will blame that Gen 3 SSD.
 

BigBooper

Member
I've seen rumors that the Seagate exclusivity was for one year. If true, we should see some competition of some sort soon. People have already come up with adapters for the proprietary shape of the drives.

Wondering how many commenters itt will be temp banned by tomorrow, lol.
 
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DeepEnigma

Gold Member
4GB that was useless at the time vs 1tb that’s will last for years…

Pulling at straws now huh?
Here We Go Eye Roll GIF
 
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RoboFu

One of the green rats
tey actually should of waited a year on the 2tb as there really hasnt been a reason ( ei: enough new games) to even warrant any expansion for either console yet.
 
Great news.
Here in Brazil the 2TB one is going to cost R$562462385234865832475623845623486328528356238456832648532648562835642385623485623845623852368564328574263854236532685623875632856238752368462356238523645824364582356423875684325682345632856238523685236582365238526358236583256235238523685623568 reais though. I will not be able to buy one :lollipop_worried: .
Only $997,981,509,821,304,300,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 USD? Seems rather cheap.
 

splattered

Member
Just bought a second 1TB card to store more of the recent enhanced games that have released and prepare for fh5/halo/cod/bf2042 ... still not enough space. I miss being able to spend on like an 8TB external and just have a crap load of games there ready to go. I mean of course i still do for my huge XBO backlog, but the further we get into the generation the more games are gonna require the enhanced storage and i have no idea how they are going to solve this problem for people that buy tons of digital games.
 

ethomaz

Banned
The prices are several tiers higher than actual M.2 SSDs.

1TB prices 2.4GB/s SSDs are around $100.

Great news.
Here in Brazil the 2TB one is going to cost R$562462385234865832475623845623486328528356238456832648532648562835642385623485623845623852368564328574263854236532685623875632856238752368462356238523645824364582356423875684325682345632856238523685236582365238526358236583256235238523685623568 reais though. I will not be able to buy one :lollipop_worried: .
Today… tomorrow you need to add a bit more… dollar is going to the sky here 😱
 
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Three

Member
Seagate is price gouging. You can buy a 1 TB 3.5 GBps 980 for just $99. The 2 TB 970 evo plus is $240.

And thats a 3.5 GBps drive. The 2.4 GBps SSDs like the one Seagate is selling is selling for just $186 on Amazon
MS are price gouging with proprietary drives not seagate. If seagate is selling seagate non xbox drives for cheaper it's a high price because it's a licensed xbox drive with no competitors.
 
4GB that was useless at the time vs 1tb that’s will last for years…

Pulling at straws now huh?
It was actually 1 GB, and only in the revised model. First model didn't have a memory card.

Btw, that 1 GB was enough to install maybe two games if you were lucky.
 
$50 for 500 GB
$95 for 1 TB
$225 for 2 TB

2.4 GB/s read.

SN550 is being replaced now by the SN570.

New numbers are 3500 MB/s read. 3000 MB/s write.

Basically same price.
MS is Gen3 thought.
kind of.

It's technically gen4, with just two lanes, firmware of the existing Gen3 devices has to be modified to allow that which is what they did with their own internal SSD.

The architecture splits a single PCI-e 4x gen4 NVME lane into 2x, one for the internal disk the other 2x for the external solution.

It's stupid.
 
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DeepEnigma

Gold Member
Better mind the sticky
Mind what? Piss off, it's not console warring to call out proprietary bullshit and their asinine prices and not cheerlead for it, nor is it to call out your goalpost moving reductive arguments to defend the same shit you bash in the same sentence.

If anyone is warring, it's you. Both proprietary shit was and is SHIT. Regardless of brand choice.

Console price levels for storage. Woosah!
 
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Warnen

Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
It was actually 1 GB, and only in the revised model. First model didn't have a memory card.

Btw, that 1 GB was enough to install maybe two games if you were lucky.
think US one came with 4gb, but I do remember getting the biggest I could at the time

How wast 4gb useless? For a gamer that is all you needed for game saves. 1 TB is needed for installing the games. You didn't do that with Vita.
digital
 
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Ezekiel_

Banned
It isn't a secret that the video game industry makes big bucks by selling accessories.

Consoles are sold very close to their cost (except Switch).

Everything else is sold for max profits (controllers, etc.)

This is just one other example.

Good thing Sony made it so that you can use a third party NVME drive, even if it's a bit less "user-friendly" compared to a plugin card.
 

Topher

Gold Member
It was actually 1 GB, and only in the revised model. First model didn't have a memory card.

Btw, that 1 GB was enough to install maybe two games if you were lucky.

The 4GB was bundled with Vita in NA. Games could be run off the cartridge IIRC.
 

M1chl

Currently Gif and Meme Champion
Technically I don't need this, since cold-storage options exists, but that's annoying shit. Not sure if 400USD annoying tho : D
 

Warnen

Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
Mind what? Piss off, it's not console warring to call out proprietary bullshit and their asinine prices and not cheerlead for it, nor is it to call out your goalpost moving reductive arguments to defend the same shit you bash in the same sentence.

If anyone is warring, it's you. Both proprietary shit was and is SHIT. Regardless of brand choice.

Console price levels for storage. Woosah!

Agree to disagree, with proprietary comes ease of use (at least on Xbox/apple). No having to install the drive, deal with heat shielding and making sure specs match when shopping. Prices are a bit to high for sure but they will go down just like with the 1tb version.
 

MaulerX

Member
2TB MVME SSD in that form factor is pretty impressive.

These things are never going to be cheap not sure what people expected.
 

Warnen

Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
You didn't need a memory card for for the vita to be functional

yeah I forget these portable systems actually sell games on other media, been digital for so long. Been a while don’t remember how game patches and stuff were handled on the vita.
 

DeepEnigma

Gold Member
Agree to disagree, with proprietary comes ease of use (at least on Xbox/apple). No having to install the drive, deal with heat shielding and making sure specs match when shopping. Prices are a bit to high for sure but they will go down just like with the 1tb version.
One thing I do agree on, mindless convenience does come at a price.
 
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Just picked up the 1 TB card...

I don't swap between enough games to even justify buying a 2TB card for the Series X right now and $400 ...... :messenger_grinning_smiling:

Its a proprietary card which makes it easier to use then what the PS5 is doing so a price hike is expecting but $400 is just insane.
 
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