Seagate 2TB Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S $326.53 Delivered @ Amazon US via AU

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Dan24 on 09/10/2024 - 09:12 amazon.com.au (256 clicks)
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Prime NOT required. I hate how expensive this thing is. However, I must make use of my turkish game pass without tanking the life of my Xbox's internal SSD. This is pretty cheap (in comparison to previous deals and the RRP), don't forget to stack with whatever cashback or GC discount that you can. It was Macquarie bank Marketplace for me. Enjoy.

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  sghetti on 09/10/2024 - 09:25

  +3

  That's the best price I've seen for these drives. I was looking at the other deal for this which I think was around $350 or so, but looks like that one ended. Might pull the trigger on this one.

  It's terrible that these are the only options… I'm struggling with Series X games taking way too much space, I've got another 1TB drive that I offload games to, mainly XB1 games that can still run, I'm having to shuffle installed games around all the time which is a pain.

  I looked into other options, there's some adapters which can house normal drives but they don't get picked up as a compatible drive for Series X games to run off which is really annoying.

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    Dan24 on 09/10/2024 - 09:45

    Yeah the adapter route was gonna be a bit of a rabbit hole. There are apparently drives pulled from donor series consoles that run at the required PCIE 4.0x2 spec and work with a CF express adapter easy… But those (the drives) are sold at a premium at Ali express and eBay. Combined with the fact there's no guarantee they would continue to work, I opted against that route.

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  snoopydoop on 09/10/2024 - 09:26

  +3

  About 25-30 bucks cheaper than normal Amazon price, they jacked it recently for this deal I guess. 360 seems the norm from amazon germany.

  I'm gonna hold, I'm sure it'll drop lower than 300 eventually.

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  edgar28 on 09/10/2024 - 09:44

  Anyone has tried this adapter?
  https://www.amazon.com.au/CF-Express-Type-B-Adapter-PCIe4-0-…

  One user share the instructions

  The steps to make it work:
  1) Format the SSD under Win10 to the GPT format
  2) Mount the SSD to the adapter
  3) Plugged into the Xbox expansion slot
  4) Xbox will say the expansion storage is not valid, this is OK
  5) Unmount the SSD from the adapter and mount to a NVME-to-USB adapter
  6) Plugged it into the Xbox USB plug
  7) Xbox should say a new USB storage is detected
  8) Format it
  9) Unmount the SSD from NVME-to-USB adapter and mount to adapter
  10) Plugged it into the expansion slot
  11) Xbox should now detect it successfully

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    Dan24 on 09/10/2024 - 09:47

    +1

    See my reply above, the adapters are typically recommended by sellers only if you have a donor drive from another series s or x console.

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      edgar28 on 09/10/2024 - 09:51

      +1

      Thanks 👍

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    ratoloko on 09/10/2024 - 09:50

    I thought about it but there was too much uncertainty.
    You need to make sure its micro controller is great or the performance will be crappy.

    Also, the official one design is in a way that the metal that goes in, touches the XBox body to transfer the natural heat generated by the NVMe
    This one is plastic so there is no heat transfer from the NVMe.

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  ratoloko on 09/10/2024 - 09:47

  OP, It is showing as $305.44 NSW metro area.

  I bought mine for $375.41 in June via Amazon Germany

  I mainly bought it because NVMe/SSD have writing lifespan, I don't wanna the internal NVMe writing too much because at the moment we can replace it which is awesome ( PS5 main NVMe is soldered haha ) but we cannot reinstall the OS like we used to do with One S/One X ( I did this on my One S )
  It is easier and cheaper to replace an external storage over the internal one at the time I am writing this.

  Prior to that, I had a high quality NVMe enclosure and a decent Gen4 NVMe even so we are restricted to the USB-A 3.2 speed, I was able to play games just fine and with Quick Resume which I hate and don't like it ( It is like Windows Suspend Mode ), it increases the chance of zombie processes and multiplayer games crash.

  So you don't really need to buy this, just buy a Sabrent ( their micro controller is great while others use cheap crappy ones affecting performance and lots of heat ) NVMe USB-c 3.2 enclosure and a Gen4 NVMe to be future proof spending less.

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    Dan24 on 09/10/2024 - 09:51

    Honestly didn't realise an external enclosure would allow for Xbox series s or x games to be installed and played. I have a couple of Ugreen ones lying around, might get a Kingston NV2 and give that a go at some stage.

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      ratoloko on 09/10/2024 - 10:24

      I have used external storage on my XBox since One S, One S, One X and Series X.

      The main advantage of that is that you can upgrade console with zero download required.
      Setup the new XBox, hook the storage to the new console and all games will be available right away.
      Also, if you are old school and go to a friends house, as long as you login with your account, you can play all games on that console with zero download.

      On Series X, I didn't expect it to work either because people kept saying that you must move games to the internal storage to play.
      I remember playing Ori and 2019 Call of Duty Modern Warfare among other games just fine with Quick Resume for Ori.

      Unless that changed, you can play games just fine from an external storage but remember, if you are going with SSD/NVMe over HDD, pick good ones.
      I have a few NVMe around so why I use them, it is cheap and I have replace USB stick with NVMe + Enclosure for some time now, some might see that as overkill because of Series X/S USB A 3.2 speed limit over USB-c.
      HDD USB-A 3.2 will work also on a Series X without problems but not recommended because of its mechanical nature.

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      sghetti on 09/10/2024 - 13:32

      +3

      There are certain games that cannot run off an external drive other than these expansion cards or internal storage. Older games can allow you to, but you'll otherwise get an error that you can't play it until it's moved for games for Series X. Most likely, the games being played by the other user are ones that are optimised but also work on Xbox One, which when it's running from an external drive it'll run in Xbox One mode, not Series X

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        TheDukeOfNukem on 09/10/2024 - 14:34

        +1

        There is in fact some Series X/S games that can run off a normal old USB HDD, but it's a small selection overall.

        If you're low on space though, a cheap HDD for OG/360/XB1 games is the way to go.

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    Smigit on 09/10/2024 - 10:24

    +2

    I doubt either the PS5 or Xbox are doing any significant volumes of writes to the internal storage so as to stress the solid state drives write thresholds. Most game data’s going to be quite static. Even accounting for a few dumps of ram to storage to allow quick resume to work.

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      ratoloko on 09/10/2024 - 10:27

      +2

      You are not wrong at all, but it is one less thing for me to think about specially because as I mentioned, we can replace the main NVMe but we cannot reinstall XBox Series X OS like One S/X

      This is 100% personal preference/over thinking.

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    nfusion on 09/10/2024 - 10:31

    Just confirm you are playing the Series X optimised versions of the games stored on the portable enclosure?

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  Rated3 on 09/10/2024 - 10:17

  Or just buy any standard HDD and swap out Series X games between your internal and external

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    reveler on 09/10/2024 - 10:30

    how are the transfer times with this approach?

    Does the xbox also keep everything up to date when attached to an external drive?

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      sghetti on 09/10/2024 - 13:28

      +1

      Keep in mind you'd need to offload something from the internal storage first, to make room for the game to be moved back into the internal storage

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      Rated3 on 09/10/2024 - 13:48

      +1

      It's pretty quick imo. About 10 mins to transfer a game between the external HDD to the internal HDD. Updates still get pushed through as well.

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    ratoloko on 09/10/2024 - 10:32

    -4

    Yeah sure, wasting the internal NVMe writing cycles by moving games in and out!
    Games are easily 50G-100G in size, imagine writing all of that data over and over, RIP NVMe.

    Nahh thanks.

    From my experience, even with a HDD you can play straight from it on a Series X.
    There is no real next gen yet to truly use the power of this console, I have not crossed any message on my console saying "Move this game to the internal storage to be able to play"

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      jirskyr on 09/10/2024 - 17:41

      +2

      Most new (next-gen) games will not let you play from the external HDD. I don't know what games you are trying to play, but I come across this message all the time, telling you you can install to external but must move to internal to play.

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        ratoloko on 10/10/2024 - 09:25

        telling you you can install to external but must move to internal to play

        I never said that, have I???

        Anyway, I must have woke up and decided to spread lies on OzBargain according to you!!
        FFS, I am not saying sh1t anymore here, f it, there is always this sort of crowd!!!!

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  Ecstatic on 10/10/2024 - 10:20

  +1

  This might be about as good as it gets. Pulled the trigger.

  Now to offload my old 1TB expansion drive - what are they worth?

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    Dan24 on 12/10/2024 - 00:23

    +1

    My guide is to split the difference between the CEX buy-for-cash price and their sell price. Since if you are selling buyers aren't getting a 2yr warranty. With that logic, I reckon you would have luck trying to sell it for 180 to 190 pretty easily, fb marketplace or ebay depending on where you live, this is assuming you are talking about a 1 TB expansion card.

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  Nugs on 12/10/2024 - 16:57

  Shows $400
  Expired?
  .