BigLee74
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Thrifty, my friend, thrifty.God damn cheapskate haggis.
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New 2TB and 512 GB Seagate Expansion Cards for Xbox Series X|S ($400 and $140 respectively) announced
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It's Pcie4x2 but don't let the facts get in the way.
MaulerX
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It depends on what you mean by better.
You can choose from multiple vendors on PS5 and choose the best price/performance that meets your needs. That's a plus but...
The small form factor and hot-swappable (plug-and-play without turning the system off) nature of Xbox's SSD means you can move it around much easier (to a friends/families house or within your own home if you have multiple systems). - - - Having to do this on a PS5 is one hell of a chore.
ethomaz
Banned
It is a PCIe 3.0 drive with modified controller to talk with PCIe 4.0 slot.
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Exactly I would definitely take a 512 and 256gb for the right price point, I love the memory card nature of it.
Badlucktroll
Member
This shit is so expensive.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
Do any of these drives offer the same functionality the Xbox drives offer? Hot swappability and portability for 2. Price is clearly higher but let's not act like it's a 1 one 1 comparison with a standard NVME drive. You pay less and get less functionality. Makes sense.$50 for 500 GB
$95 for 1 TB
$225 for 2 TB
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Ass of Can Whooping
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You aren't paying nearly twice the amount because of portability
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Little Chicken
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$400 for 4TB I wouldn't hesitate, but for 2TB it's a bit of an ask. We should've seen these prices coming with the new consoles I guess. The value is there when you consider how often it'll be used over the next 5 years.
Topher
Gold Member
The vast majority of people are going to install the drive and leave it. Being hot-swappable is going to be a convenience for a very small few.
Regardless, I'll always side with standard over proprietary.
Lucifers Beard
Member
Hahaha that 2TB is almost as much as a bloody Series X!!
Wooxsvan
Member
This thread is about Storage and Xbox's solutions is Objectively higher priced for less performance.
They set the price for the license which they get a cut of. They create no competition by designing a proprietary drive and anybody who wants to sell that drive has to go through MS and pay a cut making the drive more expensive than the non proprietary drive the same manufacturer sells. MS gain hardware discounts on the actual inbuilt drives too by entering into agreements with seagate. The high price is by design not Seagate gouging but MS deciding to collect money or make deals from drives by making it proprietary.
MaulerX
Member
In 2013 Sony made a video on how easy it is to share games.
Now in 2021 it's MS that's making it easier to share games (I just hand my friend my SSD so he doesn't have to download all those games).
kyliethicc
Member
Option A
Spend $440 on two 1 TB proprietary Xbox cards and hot swap them.
Option B
Spend $225 on a 2 TB M.2 SSD.
With option B, you certainly pay less. We agree on that.
Riky
$MSFT
Exactly the form factor and ease of use make this a different concept, plus guaranteed to match the internal performance.
Just being to move your games between consoles in seconds and even take them to other people's consoles is a big plus for me.
StreetsofBeige
Gold Member
$400 US = $500 CDN. No thanks.
The 1TB card here is still around $300 CDN. No thanks either.
The 1TB card here is still around $300 CDN. No thanks either.
Epic Sax CEO
Banned
This card format will make difficult to produce cheap high capacity cards, because it demands high capacity chips that are more expensive obviously.
Topher
Gold Member
That's fine, but what I said is still true. The vast majority are not going to remove the SSD from the console. It will serve as storage expansion and that is all. I don't see the need to embellish this feature as if it would justify the extra cost to most when it simply does not.
The reason it is so expensive is because it is a 2230 SSD with a proprietary controller stuck inside a CF Express housing and interface.
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Ass of Can Whooping
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FrankWza
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ByWatterson
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Those prices are absurd when I can get 1TB on PS5 for less than $200. Xbox needs many more third party manufacturers.
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1) No one knows the cost of the license and how much of the final cost it represents
2) They created no competition when they made Seagate the exclusive providers of these drives not when they introduced a proprietary connector (see Apple and lightning). They like Apple definitely lessened competition.
3) The functions of a normal seagate isn't the same as the xbox seagate expansion drive, all cfexpress drives are more expensive than their non-cfexpress counterparts. Whether that premium is worth it is subjective and for 95% (imo) of the audience, it isn't.
My point is that Microsoft can't factually price gouge when they aren't setting the price, they can definitely set up a situation where prices are higher.
MatrixReloaded101
Member
The only issue here is price but the ease of swapping out the cards is better compared to what needs to be done to swap SSD's in the PS5.
I know a lot of people that don't want to expand the storage on their PS5 because they fear breaking something and than not being able to get a replacement console. Than you also have to worry about the heatsink nonsense.
DarkMage619
$MSFT
Price is the only knock against the drive. It still offers features other systems lack entirely.
There is no question the Xbox storage solution is clearly the most console like. The biggest con is the price. It is nice not needing any tools to upgrade the storage and being able to take your games to your friends house.
FranXico
Member
Are you comparing Vita game sizes to the sizes of games made for a 2020 console?
Who's pulling at straws?
Kacho
Gold Member
When the console refreshes come, being able to quickly swap the storage card from one device to another will be really nice. I'd hate to have to spend time taking about the old system to get the SSD out, only to turn around and do the same thing on the new one. What a pain in the ass.
Prices will come down over time, but it's definitely a tough sell atm.
Topher
Gold Member
Better is subjective. I guess some folks would rather pay a bit more money rather than having to handle a screwdriver, but frankly, I seriously doubt that. Most casuals are not going to add storage to either.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Having multiple of both new consoles I way prefer the MS system of SSD its super easy swapping the drive into another console
This relationship with Seagate needs to end and let others manufacture this drive and get pricing down
This relationship with Seagate needs to end and let others manufacture this drive and get pricing down
Warnen
Don't pass gaas, it is your Destiny!
The thread was announcing the 2tb/512gb version not comparing the system, warriors did that. Xbox solutions has features absent from the competitors.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
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who’s going to help you carry your VRR capable tv over if they don’t have one?
RiccochetJ
Gold Member
Will other third parties eventually be able to make these things or is it fully exclusive to Seagate? We need some competition up in here!
Until then I'll just continue to swap games to my external 5TB mechanical drive when I don't plan on playing them anytime soon.
Until then I'll just continue to swap games to my external 5TB mechanical drive when I don't plan on playing them anytime soon.
Topher
Gold Member
This is the exact reason I returned my XSS and waited for XSX to become available.
1) So why do you assume the opposite if nobody knows the cut?
2) They can price gouge by setting the license cost which seagate has to cover. And why do you think they made seagate the exclusive provider? What benefit do they get from such an agreement? Better prices for the inbuilt one probably or they agreed together on how they will make money from it. The proprietary connector is the soul and primary reason for no competition. If it wasn't proprietary then there is no way for MS to dictate who can manufacture a drive for it.
3) are you trying to suggest that the proprietary drives are somehow more expensive to manufacture because of the connector? Because they are not and they use cheap 2.4Gb/s rated memory and controllers.
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dem
Member
These drives are absurdly expensive..
This was the worst move MS did with the Series console.
If they just let you stick a regular NVME drive... which is all the Series X has in the first place.. in you could get 1TB for like $120 CAD.
This shit is $280 in Canada.
Get fucked
This was the worst move MS did with the Series console.
If they just let you stick a regular NVME drive... which is all the Series X has in the first place.. in you could get 1TB for like $120 CAD.
This shit is $280 in Canada.
Get fucked
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DarkMage619
$MSFT
I'm sorry what does an the most affordable current generation console have to do with this topic at all? You aren't getting better gaming performance for $300 anywhere else.
Magic Carpet
Member
These things need some bling. Lights, skins, funky shapes or at least an engraving signed by Phil Spencer. Now would you pay 400 bucks?
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Is this an ad?