News Microsoft Preps Cheap 500GB Expansion SSD for Xbox Series X|S

[Admin]

Microsoft and Seagate team up

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[thisisaname]

For that price and capacity they may as well not bother doing it. Less than half the size for 70% of the price is truly bad value.

 

[ohio_buckeye]

I agree. 500gb for 150 is highway robbery. At that, go spend a little more and buy a 2tb ssd, and then buy an external enclosure for it, attach it via usb, then use it to offload games to. I have a 1tb ssd drive attached to my Series S(via usb), and a 2tb hard drive. If I want to install older games to play I can put them on the external ssd. If I want to move games to cold storage I can put them on my 2tb hard drive.

 

[kal326]

I agree. 500gb for 150 is highway robbery. At that, go spend a little more and buy a 2tb ssd, and then buy an external enclosure for it, attach it via usb, then use it to offload games to. I have a 1tb ssd drive attached to my Series S(via usb), and a 2tb hard drive. If I want to install older games to play I can put them on the external ssd. If I want to move games to cold storage I can put them on my 2tb hard drive.

I did this with a 4TB SSD and am already aha I gave to shuffle stuff off the 1TB internal. With a few game installs over 100GB+ it’s hard to have multiple people using the console and not completely packing the 1TB.

 

[kal326]

What someone at Microsoft heard: “People are complaining that the only official expansion is too expensive”
What they should have heard: “The only external expansion offering is a terrible price to storage ratio considering comparable non proprietary drives the direct competition allows”
What they did: “Look there is a cheaper option now, high fives”

 

[sizzling]

If there is such a small difference for 1/2 the size does that mean there will be a similar small cost increase for 2TB?