Seagate has had a stranglehold on Xbox's proprietary storage expansion for the Series X|S up until now, but there's a new competitor in town. Western Digital has announced that they'll also be offering Xbox expansion cards in 512GB and 1TB capacity. Pricing is $79.99 and $149.99, respectively, putting it exactly on par with the Seagate version. These expansion cards are the only way that you can get more install space for current-generation titles on the Xbox Series X|S.

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[KiiWii]

$149 per TB is still way too much. Ridiculous.

 

[Bladexdsl]

and have them fail in a year yeah fuck off WD! their stuff is pure trash. i once had a HDD that was sitting on a shelf in a protected case doing nothing and it died!!

 

[eyeliner]

and have them fail in a year yeah fuck off WD! their stuff is pure trash. i once had a HDD that was sitting on a shelf in a protected case doing nothing and it died!!

Died a virgin.
F

 

[Kubas_inko]

Standards: *exist*
Companies: I am gonna pretend I didn't see that.

 

[nubman33]

and have them fail in a year yeah fuck off WD! their stuff is pure trash. i once had a HDD that was sitting on a shelf in a protected case doing nothing and it died!!

I call bs

 

[hippy dave]

Died a virgin.
F

Was probably a member of this site then.

 

[Gronbar]

Still expensive tho, M$ make this standard open.

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Standards: *exist*
Companies: I am gonna pretend I didn't see that.

This standard exist for years in professional cameras, it's up to M$ and their firmware to allow other companies to make they own expansion cards.

 

[codezer0]

I call bs

For as much as people meme on Seagate's failure rates now, this was SOP for my experiences with Western Digital and their various sub-brands.

Safe to say, I'm old enough to remember when reviews of an IDE hard disk beating SCSI was something to brag about, and boy did WD brag like hell on the first line of such hard drives to do so. Long story short, that still holds the personal recorded for fastest to fail. Exactly 72 hours from purchase of a brand new example, it had completely failed.

In the more current era, since Best Buy just loves to only carry WD branded drives, I've noticed a concerning trend where everything at or above 2TB in capacity will get stupid hot. As in hot enough to fail SMART testing, hot. Not that it would matter because when it gets that warm the drive behaves like it's failing on the spot.

I've just simply not had that kind of negative experience with any consistency with other brands, full stop.

Hell, one of the reasons I've been deliberately holding off on trying all that hard for a Series X is entirely because I know storage will become a problem, and this method of expansion is PS Vita levels of overpriced.

 

[CathyRina]

I think I'll just stick to the "uninstalling games I dont play anymore" trick.
It's easy
It's simple
It's free!

 

[gaga941021]

$149 per TB is still way too much. Ridiculous.

It's perfectly fine, since it is not mandatory to buy.

 

[Kioku]

It's perfectly fine, since it is not mandatory to buy.

No, but there’s still no reason to charge so much. People want the expandable storage but shouldn’t have to pay obnoxious prices due to whatever the hell is going on here.

 

[Hayato213]

It's perfectly fine, since it is not mandatory to buy.

I actually don't use the internal storage, instead run games off the expansion card slot.

 

[pustal]

$149 per TB is still way too much. Ridiculous.

You can buy a case off ali express and use your own SSD on it, But should end around that price considering it uses the 2230 format.

 

[yoyoyo69]

It's perfectly fine, since it is not mandatory to buy.

Not really. After paying close to half a grand for a console, more if you want accessories. Then hundreds for subscriptions, not £70 for a game, which are a buggy mess and way over 100GB, now you have to pay hundreds more, only to STILL be short of space.

 

[KiiWii]

You can buy a case off ali express and use your own SSD on it, But should end around that price considering it uses the 2230 format.

Wasn’t that limited to 512gb?

 

[Hayato213]

You can buy a case off ali express and use your own SSD on it, But should end around that price considering it uses the 2230 format.

You can't just use any drives though, there is only certain amount of drives out there that been white listed and actually work.

 

[Smoker1]

Now if only others did that when the Vita came out

 

[pustal]

Wasn’t that limited to 512gb?

I don't know. I haven't read about limitations in size.

 

[ZeroT21]

Still ok I guess, better than selling an organ or two for an Iphone