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Afterpay Day deal to get a decent price on the Xbox storage expansion card. Not as cheap as the ~$250 deal a few months back, but still a decent price!
[Afterpay] Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S $296.65 Delivered @ Microsoft eBay
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NinjaCatfish on 19/08/2021 - 10:39 ebay.com.au (364 clicks)
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Can run games directly from it without needing to copy to internal storage first.
Thanks for that.
So if I have an external SSD, I'd have to first download the game to the internal drive of the Xbox, then copy it across to the SSD to play it? I cant select the drive to download and install it on when I click the download button?
Also are there any speed/performance benefits with these expansion cards versus an external SSD?
Just the above inconvenience. Should be better options in the future if you can wait.
Speed should be a little more on these when compared to external
The opposite! You can’t run Series X|S games from external storage. You can store them there but to play them you have to copy to the internal Xbox storage first.
This expansion card expands your internal storage, so you can play games directly from this storage card.(It gets complicated since you can run games built for Xbox One from a USB drive, but not games built for X|S)
These allow you to play next gen games directly without copying to internal first - ie it acts as a native internal drive.
You CAN play previous gen games (non X enhanced I think) from an external SSD. Load times would be similar
No you can choose external as your default if you want, this is what I have done. For xbox sx games you need internal (so Halo infinite when it comes out will need to be from internal). Anything older (from game pass or backwards compact games) can be played via external and it can be any type of external.
With this, you can have Series S|X default Series S|X games to install to this expansion card instead of internal SSD.
For backward compatibility games do not require internal SSD or expansion card storage, you can also have them default to install to an external USB 3.x based external storage.
The main issue with external USB storage is that they need to go through USB 3.1 gen 2 interface, which roughly gives you at best 1GB/s performance. For Series S|X, technically, USB 4 / Thunderbolt 3 could come close to reaching the speed Series S|X needs. However, it adds cost to the consoles.
In short, due to the limitation of USB 3.1/3.2 gen 2 interface, there is no real benefit of using an NVMe PCIe x4 gen 3 SSD (you can still do that, but you are limited to 1GB/s via USB 3.1/3.2 gen 2).
This will go great with my Xbox Series X…IF I HAD ONE!
I doubt it will go great with your Playstation 5 though…
mate, follow this twitter account with notifications on. https://twitter.com/AlertsXbox
I picked up my XSX a couple weeks ago from a EB games pre order drop.
Yeah I do. Silly me didn't put my name down for EB cause they said it was Oct delivery.
I’m getting really tempted but still can’t quite justify yet. Maybe once FH5 and Halo hit but then they won’t be on sale probably
Given Halo Infinite is expected to release around the end of the year, there hopefully should be xmas/boxing day or new years (or Australia Day sales) to help bring down the price. Otherwise also keep your eyes out for a price drop around the black friday/cyber monday sales from 26-29th November (if Microsoft participate in it).
They generally do participate in it. I got the series 2 elite controller pretty cheap on an eBay deal a year or so ago.
i can not even use the 800G from the internal storage (i don't play first person shooter/or ball games).
Download FS2020
Downloaded on day one. Deleted after 10 mins. I don't know how to fly a plane. Was excited about that. May try again later.
Been using it for a while and it's bit annoying as it's still considered as separate storage unit so need to move things around manually.
Best if you have some games play seldom but takes large chunk of the storage.
Agreed - I expected it to work as an expansion to the internal rather than a separate device.
My internal is full, so I just set the expansion as the default install location and it’s mostly good now. Will get annoying once I delete some stuff on the internal and have to do the shuffle around though.
Hodl
I personally purchased a Samsung T5 500GB SSD for my Series S for less than $100 from Officeworks. Understand not the same, very fast though and I store non S/X optimised games on it, would still be faster than all of the previous gen Xbox HDD's.
It's a cost effective and sensible choice. However, Series S|X does support USB 3.1/3.2 gen 2, and we know T5 actually has an SATA based SSD inside so while it technically support USB 3.1/3.2 gen 2, you are only getting roughly SATA3 speed.
It's a pity there is no cheap USB 3.1 gen2 enclosures for SATA SSDs.
Whats the benefit of these versus an external SSD in an enclosure?