Xbox Quietly Releases New 4TB Expansion Card For Series X/S

Woody337 said:
I cant believe how expensive these are!!
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One of their many fuckups. Yes, it's more elegant than removing a panel and swapping out an NVMe drive, but the cost is not worth it. The PS5 solution isn't even that cumbersome. The only annoying part is removing those stupid faceplates.
 
Xbox should've been raked over the coals for their anti consumer storage expansion options. Absolutely zero reason for this nonsense. Just release a fucking adapter already.
 
Gamer_By_Proxy said:
I still remember the Xbox shill podcasts. "BuT yOu GuYs GoTtA uSe A sCrEwDrIvEr" 🪛
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I'm sure those clowns still defend this shit too.

Oh no I have to follow simple instructions to install an off the shelf part at less than half the cost of the shitty Xbox proprietary one. Good thing I'm not a fucking retard and can do it.
 
Just keep handing Sony the hardware wins MS. Like… at least try to act like you want to sell hardware.
 
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4 TB NVMe M.2 SSDs are around £230-£250 on Amazon here in the UK as at today's date so you are paying a £125+ (not sure on the USD to GBP exchange rate...) premium for using a proprietary drive on Xbox Series X|S consoles. Whether it is worth the extra just for the ability to easily plug in and remove the drive depends on the user but, personally, I think that is just too expensive and it should be no more than £300 with a price cut to the 2 TB card which shows as £199 on Amazon (standard 2 TB NBMe M.2 SSDs are around £100-£120 on the same site).

I picked up a 4 TB WD SN850X with built-in heatsink for my PS5 Pro last November 2024 for just over £300 and that drive is much faster than the ones Microsoft use. Kind of glad that Sony went with the expandable internal storage option personally as it is not like I have ever had any reason to remove the drive once it is installed, just as I never did when I had a PS5 with an extra 2 TB WD drive. You install these and then just leave them there for however long you own the console in my experience (unless it develops a fault, obviously).
 
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Gamer_By_Proxy said:
I bet literally no one has even tried to do that. Totally worth it!
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I'm pretty sure it would work lol. I replaced my 1TB m.2 a couple years ago with a bigger one and gave my old one to my buddy. Forgot to format it and everything on it just showed up when he plugged it in. Couldn't use the games cause he didn't have the licenses though.
 
PauloRoberto said:
It is clear that MS reallly wants to nickle and dime everything related to xbox hardware...
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Oh absolutely... no more is this apparent to me than the sheer number of Xbox controllers they sell.

While the standard controllers are fine and are my go-to controller for PC, particularly for comfort and battery life, the quality control on the Elite controllers is utterly awful if my own experiences are anything to go by. I've own four over the last decade since I bought the original and all but the latest one I got - the Core - quickly developed faults ranging from sticky bumper buttons to analogue stick drift, often after only a few months of careful use since no-one but me uses them and I don't play games that require me to madly mash the buttons.
 
Reckheim said:
this is why I think their next 'modular' PC/console will probably be expensive as fuck.
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I think this is partly why they increased the 2TB Series X to $729. Much like Sony setting the PS5 Pro at $699, they're setting the baseline for the next generation of consoles. Xbox isn't trying to sell 50 million units anymore, that shit has sailed, so I expect the next gen system to be at minimum $850 or more. I'm not even exaggerating.
 
saintjules said:
It's for people who like to hoard their games. I try to uninstall what I don't play at the moment.
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If cost wasn't a factor, I would use secondary storage to put less wear and tear on the built-in storage, which can't be replaced and essentially kills the console if it goes bad, like how I stack the SD card in a Switch (when its not running off a cart that is). On PS4 I didn't care about this because you can just swap out a normal 2.5 inch disk drive. But I definitely don't want the memory to go bad in my Series S, there's no way I'm buying another one lol. It may seem silly to worry about but I foresee it croaking before my late gen hdmi 360.
 
adamsapple said:
So much for them leaving the hardware market :messenger_smirking:
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I just saw this in another thread and can't hold back from using it already
 
Loomy said:
One of their many fuckups. Yes, it's more elegant than removing a panel and swapping out an NVMe drive, but the cost is not worth it. The PS5 solution isn't even that cumbersome. The only annoying part is removing those stupid faceplates.
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That's for the birds. It's a royal pain in the ass having to unlug the console and all the wires every time you want to change the drive on the PS5 (and I have 2) On the Xbox its so much easier, but where I wished the slot was on the front of the unit rather than the back.

Both formats have their pros on cons...
 
It would be great if you can use it on pc. Its damn annoying wanting to upgrade an internal ssd on a gaming pc. If you can just plug this to a usb 3.0 port I would buy one. Alas.
 
Team Andromeda said:
That's for the birds. It's a royal pain in the ass having to unlug the console and all the wires every time you want to change the drive on the PS5 (and I have 2) On the Xbox its so much easier, but where I wished the slot was on the front of the unit rather than the back.

Both formats have their pros on cons...
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How often do you change the storage on your PS5? Like yeah, it's a royal pain unplugging the power and HDMI cables from my laptop and taking the bottom off of it every time I want to add a SSD to the second bay...which happened once.
 
BlackTron said:
How often do you change the storage on your PS5? Like yeah, it's a royal pain unplugging the power and HDMI cables from my laptop and taking the bottom off of it every time I want to add a SSD to the second bay...which happened once.
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It depends on when you feel like playing a certain game, and you always get that urge to play that certain game after you swapped the storage card, much like on the Xbox, but at least I don't have to unplug the leads and move the console to swap the drive
Both methods have pros and cons.
 
Loomy said:
One of their many fuckups. Yes, it's more elegant than removing a panel and swapping out an NVMe drive, but the cost is not worth it. The PS5 solution isn't even that cumbersome. The only annoying part is removing those stupid faceplates.
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I have a 1TB card I picked up on eBay for a good price when I first bought my Series S years ago. I don't think it's a "fuckup" at all and provides, like you say, a more elegant solution than slapping on an external SSD for those that want it. However, the prices are indeed a bit steep.
 
HeisenbergFX4 said:
And going through the prototype process leading up to the Series launch talks happened about using PC SSDs and the powers that be wanted the extra money they thought they could generate
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People like you seem to forget the trick Xbox tried to play with 360 and custom casing for a basic HD and the eye-watering price it looked to charge for a 60GB Hard Drive
Funny how that was never an issue then
 
Team Andromeda said:
It depends on when you feel like playing a certain game, and you always get that urge to play that certain game after you swapped the storage card, much like on the Xbox, but at least I don't have to unplug the leads and move the console to swap the drive
Both methods have pros and cons.
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Honestly I didn't know you could just yank the drive from one PS5 and plug it into another one and have all the data there like that.

Perhaps I should not have given you shit for this one
 
Team Andromeda said:
People like you seem to forget the trick Xbox tried to play with 360 and custom casing for a basic HD and the eye-watering price it looked to charge for a 60GB Hard Drive
Funny how that was never an issue then
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I recall it being brought up many times that PS3 could use standard storage while 360 was stuck with its proprietary crap.
 
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