Xbox Series X is officially getting 512GB and 2TB SSD expansion cards

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If y'all were planning to pick up one of the Xbox Series X expansion cards over the Blackness Friday deals season, you might desire to pay attention. After many rumors Seagate has finally confirmed more storage cards are coming, with 512GB and 2TB options striking store shelves earlier the end of the year.

In other words don't go spending any coin on a 1TB card before figuring out whether you'd be better off with one of the new cards. How much space do y'all really need, and how much are you willing to pay for information technology?

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Nosotros've already seen the rumors well-nigh the 512GB expansion card, which prompted me to ask why there wasn't a 2TB selection. Fortunately Seagate knows what's up, and with games requiring ever-increasing amounts of storage, the 2TB bulldoze will aid you avert having to micro-manage your SSD.

The downside is that the 2TB menu is going to price $400, almost as much every bit an Xbox Series X itself, and slightly less than double the price of the $220 1TB cards. The larger menu won't launch until early Dec, which means it definitely won't be getting any Black Friday discounts.

If you're non inclined to spend that much money, the 512GB card volition be arriving in mid-November for $139 — $82 cheaper than the 1TB option. You only accept around half the amount of infinite, but you lot don't demand to spend nearly as much to aggrandize your available storage.

Of grade, the prices are only so high for a number of reasons. The master one is that yous tin only play games on external storage that is every bit fast equally the internal SSD, and that by and large involves cutting-edge PCI-east 4.0 NVMe drives. The other is that the Xbox'due south expansion cards are proprietary hardware, and currently only Seagate makes them.

Compare that to the PS5 which has a generic SSD expansion slot, and ways multiple companies tin can develop PS5-compatible cards. Increased competition should, eventually, bring those prices down. But since PS5 storage expansion is still quite new, it might be some time before that happens.

The good news is that last-gen games can be run from any old storage device, including USB hard drives. Electric current-gen games, including Series X-optimized Xbox Ane games, can also be stored on USB drives. Just in case you need somewhere to proceed game files without having to delete and download or install them once more at a later date.

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