Yup it’s the same Ssd tech , but you know Sony always does it better
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Seagate - 1TB Game Drive for Xbox Series X and Series S Is $220 / 270€
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reinking
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Please tell me you did not have issues installing an NVME SSD. It is easier.
BigDaddyDavee
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They're generally double insulated.
Aidah
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The new Samsung 980 Pro (a 7GB/s pcie 4 NVMe drive that will probably be good for PS5) will retail for $230 for 1TB. So about the same as this despite being a MUCH higher end drive, and will go down in price much faster than this. And what the hell is that 270 euro, that's just ridiculous, it has to be a mistake.
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enigmatic enthusiast
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Besides the fact that it will still have a single manufacturer of a proprietary technology. Either the profit margins will drop drastically or their price reduction cadence will be much slower than you expect; thats economics for you.
GHG
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Generally, you're making this up, please show me the actual spec that states this.
alstrike
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Dude the 980 Pro is already cheaper than the Series S/X external card...
Sethbacca
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DUDE it's not stated if that's CERTIFIED or NOT. Cerny has stated the drive needs to be CERTIFIED. No doubt it'll be a different SKU.
DUDE I also posted about this earlier:
229.99 is actually $9 MORE than the Xbox storage.
Multiple sources CONFIRM these prices, and again, this isn't "PS5 CERTIFIED".
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Rocco Schiavone
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+ faster
+ Five-year warranty
Mister Wolf
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Just store your next gen games on an external usb hard drive after you're bored with playing them. This kind of stuff only affects the minds of hoarders.
Quoting someone that's wrong is pretty awesome.
GHG
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That drive is twice as fast as the Xbox drives.
Certification means they have tested it and verified it performs as expected in the PS5, not what you think. There will be a list of off the shelf drives that are compatible as and when they become available.
Just wait and see on this "certified" non-sense.
Twice as fast... ok moving the bar again sure. But for the intents and purposes which is EXPANDING THE CONSOLES CAPACITY, it's more expensive in real world dollars by $9 it doesn't matter if it's twice as fast, it's the only way to expand said console's memory. That'd be like comparing the memory speed of Gamecube memory cards to the speed of PS2 Memory cards and trying to make a value comparison, it wouldn't matter WHICH ONE is FASTER, they're what is REQUIRED.
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jshackles
Gentlemen, we can rebuild it. We have the capability to make the world's first enhanced store. Steam will be that store. Better than it was before.
Word. I used to have a 12TB external hard drive plugged into my Xbox with the goal of having every game I owned installed and ready to play at a moment's notice. Turns out, that's incredibly cumbersome and counter intuitive so I unplugged the drive and formatted it and just stuck with the storage that's on my One X which also happens to be 1TB.
I tend to jump around to different games a lot, but even I have a hard time filling up the 1TB drive in the One X with stuff I'm actually playing. I guess it helps that I don't play Call of Duty. I guess it also helps that I have fast internet and can easily re-download anything on a whim.
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GHG
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Ok we will wait.
In the meantime we can talk about this drive being horribly overpriced for what it is.
Deal?
DarkMage619
$MSFT
So you can't say for certain that the drive that is better than the Xbox storage would even work on the the PS5. Is that even a requirement for your argument or is it just about attacking the price of this certified Xbox storage option? Yes the drive is expensive but we are certain it works.
It's not "horribly overpriced" DEAL because it's $9 LESS than the PS5's SSD EXPANSION, you need to do APPLES TO APPLES not Apples to fucking potatos or w/e the fuck throwing speed into a conversation about expanding capacity in a closed system does.
The only thing you can look at is $/gb and in that category the Series S/X is slightly less.
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T-Cake
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And a second controller!
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
So? That doesn't automatically mean anything. No reason I can see that MS won't stay competitive here.
Demon2blades
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Was always going to be expensive so WILL Sony's solution aswell both will come down In time.
alstrike
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Redlancet
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of course its fair for jeff grubb XD
Redlancet
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i hope its irony or something xD
GHG
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Nah its about the fact that the drive is simply too expensive for what it is. Let me put it this way, I'm not the one who brought up any potential PS5 drives.
If you see the discussion around how poorly priced this drive is as "attacking" then so be it, I don't give a shit. If you're buying a console that could use one of these you should be asking for more reasonable pricing.
Why are you obsessing over the potential PS5 drives pricing. Its not even apples to apples, the Samsung 980 is twice as fast as this proprietary drive. Do you know what apples to apples even means?
The Series X drives can perform at 2.4 GB/s. So with that in mind here are your apples to apples comparisons on the free market:
Amazon.com: Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive (SB-ROCKET-1TB): Computers & Accessories
Amazon.com: Sabrent 1TB Rocket NVMe PCIe M.2 2280 Internal SSD High Performance Solid State Drive (SB-ROCKET-1TB): Computers & Accessories
www.amazon.com
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phil_t98
#SonyToo
But with Ps5 you will have to buy 2tb to be the same as your swapping out the drive
DarkMage619
$MSFT
Sethbacca
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Is this the first time you've ever owned electronics? This is literally the way it always is. Expensive proprietary storage is half the reason the Vita failed.
GHG
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Any potential PS5 drive is twice as fast as this one and also has utility outside of just being stuck in a console.
But if that's how you need to interpret the points that are being put forward in order to feel comfortable about the pricing of this drive then don't let me stop you.
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xHunter
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Its 240€ in germany:
Seagate Speichererweiterungskarte für Xbox Series X | S kaufen – Microsoft Store de-DE
Die Seagate Speichererweiterungskarte für die Xbox Series X bietet zusätzlich 1 TB externen Speicherplatz und die gleiche Spitzenleistung wie die interne SSD der Konsole.
www.microsoft.com
THE:MILKMAN
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What do you mean by "swapping out the drive"? If you put a 1TB drive in PS5 it gets added to the internal 825GB embedded storage.
Donarudo
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Holy shit this is 250€ in Spain, good luck with that
Tarjeta de expansión de almacenamiento Seagate para Xbox Series X|S | Xbox
Descarga más juegos con la tarjeta de expansión de almacenamiento Seagate para Xbox Series X|Swww.xbox.com
Well
Seagate Speichererweiterungskarte für Xbox Series X | S kaufen – Microsoft Store Germany
Die Seagate Speichererweiterungskarte für die Xbox Series X bietet zusätzlich 1 TB externen Speicherplatz und die gleiche Spitzenleistung wie die interne SSD der Konsole.www.microsoft.com
239,99€
I'm not going to buy that, at that price. Something like 80-120€ seems more reasonable for that. This is just a small nand-chip card without cache & controller chip. Way to expensive.
We knew the price was 220$ for US but we just confirmation from MS about Europe for the 1 TB SSD
Le point sur les différentes options de stockage disponibles pour le lancement des Xbox Series X et Xbox Series S - Xbox Wire en Francais
Grâce à la rétrocompatibilité et au Xbox Game Pass, vous aurez accès à une bibliothèque de jeux conséquente, dès le lancement de la nouvelle génération. L’une des promesses des Xbox Series X et Series S réside dans le fait que vous pourrez profiter de quatre générations de jeux : vos titres...news.xbox.com
XSS is €299 for reference in Europe
How can the price vary in different EU countries with the same currency?! 30€ difference between Germany and France? That's ridiculous.
THE:MILKMAN
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I asked this earlier. I've never seen/noticed this before.
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lastmessiah
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Right. SSDs ain't cheap, but they used to be even more expensive. They've come down in price a lot over the last few years.
LostDonkey
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Fuck to the no
alstrike
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Well in Spain we have a 21% VAT, in Germany is 19% and in France 20%.
The higher price in France can be due to some copyright fees or some other taxes that I don't know about. Maybe some France GAF can shed some light on this matter.
Rocco Schiavone
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Germany is currently 16%. At least for this year.
tommycronin
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Just in case, will my 4tb external harddrive I'm using for my xbox one x work with my series x?
alstrike
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Yup, that's true. Sorry for the oversight.
THE:MILKMAN
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The confusion is the fact that across these same countries the price of the consoles themselves is the same at €299/€499.
ZZZZ
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My post was literally moved from another thread that didn't have "1TB in the thread title" and the article was in a language i didn't understand, that's why i asked because the price is outrageous.