Seagate's Xbox Series Expansion Card - 1TB $219.99

[Talal86]

Originally Posted by Himmel

Xbox Series X Seagate Price leaked $219.99

[tcripe]

lol at that price point. Hard pass.

[Mavrick]

I don't think anyone is going to be upgrading their storage anytime soon, PS5 will have the exact same issue. There aren't even any PCIe 4.0 drives rated @ PS5 speeds available at retail yet since they aren't even part of the PC scene until the end of the year.

PS5 has it worse too since it doesn't even have a 1tb drive and I don't see off the shelf parts costing any less than this expansion card.

[WKoA13]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

I don't think anyone is going to be upgrading their storage anytime soon, PS5 will have the exact same issue. There aren't even any PCIe 4.0 drives rated @ PS5 speeds available at retail yet since they aren't even part of the PC scene until the end of the year.

PS5 has it worse too since it doesn't even have a 1tb drive and I don't see off the shelf parts costing any less than this expansion card.

Weren't there patents leaked for PS5 "ssd expansion" cards in Spring?

Granted that doesn't mean those are the expansion method Sony will go with but...

As you already mentioned, there will not be any other expansion option for PS5 for a while otherwise.

And with that impressive speed, I also don't foresee any expansion options being cheaper than the XSX cards. Stand alone drive or Sony "card" variety.

[Mavrick]

Originally Posted by WKoA13

Weren't there patents leaked for PS5 "ssd expansion" cards in Spring?

Granted that doesn't mean those are the expansion method Sony will go with but...

As you already mentioned, there will not be any other expansion option for PS5 for a while otherwise.

And with that impressive speed, I also don't foresee any expansion options being cheaper than the XSX cards. Stand alone drive or Sony "card" variety.

They were actually carts for an unrelated Sony product.

Mark Cerney said that PS5 just uses SSDs you would buy for a PC just like you would have upgraded the HDD in the PS4 or PS3. The first PCIe 4 SSDs rated for PS5 will be launching at the end of the year.

[Gamma_Winstead]

Lol @ that price. I’ll do just fine with a 1 tb hard drive for a while, thank you very much.

[Mavrick]

I think that's what a lot of people will be doing, sure it means spending time transferring games back and forth to be able to play them from the SSD but it's a hell of a lot cheaper.

[BillieCassin]

Originally Posted by Mavrick

I think that's what a lot of people will be doing, sure it means spending time transferring games back and forth to be able to play them from the SSD but it's a hell of a lot cheaper.

Reading this thread has made me feel better about this. The way I had read some of the material, it made it sound like external HDs weren't going to work at all for games. If it's just a matter of transferring, and not having to redownload, then I should be perfectly fine with 1TB for the foreseeable future.

[Mavrick]

A closer look at the Xbox Series X controller and 1TB expansion cards

[Ashamed Pegasus]

Nobody taking pre-orders for this?

[BillieCassin]

Originally Posted by Ashamed Pegasus

Nobody taking pre-orders for this?

I don't believe it is going to be available at launch.

[Batman90]

Originally Posted by BillieCassin

I don't believe it is going to be available at launch.

That’s a bummer.

[Ashamed Pegasus]

Their website says Holiday 2020, so if its not going to be available by Nov 10 it shouldn't be too long after.

[dickdarlington]

Originally Posted by BillieCassin

I don't believe it is going to be available at launch.

Microsoft sent the expansion card to all the influencers and reviewers who received their consoles this morning.

The expansion cards are ready to go. Either Microsoft is too timid to officially announce the price point (since it's almost the price of the Series S) or they're holding off on releasing it until there's more readily available to send to retailers.

[heyadol]

Originally Posted by Ashamed Pegasus

Nobody taking pre-orders for this?

Well I didn't manage to get a PS5 pre-ordered which means I've got some "bonus" cash, so I'd also like to know who I can order it from.

[dickdarlington]

Looks like it's available for pre-order for 11/10 right now.

[Batman90]

Originally Posted by dickdarlington

Looks like it's available for pre-order for 11/10 right now.

Pre ordered it and got $30 cause of Best Buy points.

[Mavrick]

They just swapped the $ for £ https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/p/se...i9ts26h02j0v00


Eff that price.

[Blu Lemmy]

Do they not know that's not how currency conversion works.....

£219, that's a hard pass from me.

[R3P0]

So to play next gen games on Series X external storage you have to buy this lol. Wow now thats hidden cost way to go MS. Apparently external HDD wont work for next gen games only current Gen and below.

https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/24/21...E33Px25pHsptI8