Seagate's New 4TB Xbox Expansion Card Costs More Than the Xbox Series S (theverge.com) 9
An anonymous reader shares a report: Seagate has announced a new 4TB version of its storage expansion card for the Xbox Series X and S consoles. It's the first time the company has introduced a new capacity since launching 2TB and 512GB versions of the expansion card in late 2021.
The 4TB card is available starting today through Seagate's online store and Best Buy for $499.99, but is discounted to $429.99 as part of a limited-time launch promotion. For comparison, the Xbox Series S starts at $379.99, while the Xbox Series X starts at $599.99.
The 4TB card is available starting today through Seagate's online store and Best Buy for $499.99, but is discounted to $429.99 as part of a limited-time launch promotion. For comparison, the Xbox Series S starts at $379.99, while the Xbox Series X starts at $599.99.
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It sounds ridiculous at first but a gen 5 NVMe SSD is about that price. Frustrating, but they don't support HDD's so that's what you're gonna have to pay to play the next COD lol
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That generation of console doesn't have PCIe 5, though -- only PCIe 4. The PS5 uses standard M.2 NVMe drives, but wants them to be high speed (~7 GB/sec). As a result, one can get 4 TB of extra PS5 storage for between $250 and $280; that's a third less than this storage card, and you can use the PS5 drive in a PC if you want.
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$280 is 35% less than the current price of $430, genius.
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"a third less" is not "less than a third"
"a third less" = 2/3.
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Yep, that's what I figured as well. Retail Amazon price on Samsung 4TB 4xPCIe Gen 4 NVMe is $299. The $150 brand tax is modest: if this were Apple it would be $899.
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It sounds ridiculous at first but a gen 5 NVMe SSD is about that price. Frustrating, but they don't support HDD's so that's what you're gonna have to pay to play the next COD lol
Your cheapest 4TB SSD is around US$190. A Samsung 990 EVO Plus (gen 5 NVME) is US$250, according to PC Part Picker... I highly doubt that they're using the most expensive storage for this item either as the console doesn't have PCIe5.
This is why I'm glad to be a PC gamer, you don't get "nicked and dimed" to use an Americanism. The cost of entry is higher but the total cost of ownership is lower as once you've paid for your gaming boxen the savings start to stack up and up and up (cheaper games, cheaper u