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Forums - Microsoft Discussion - Xbox Series X/S expandable storage is expensive....

 

Will you be buying this storage?

Yes 10 20.83%
 
No 38 79.17%
 
Total:48
Has on 24 September 2020
Otter said:
Barkley said:

$520 - 1.5tb Xbox Series S

$500 - 1tb Xbox Series X

The price of this storage kinda kills the value of the Series S. I mean if we assume the 0.5tb is worth $110....

Then it's $410 for Xbox Series S 1TB and $500 for Xbox Series X 1TB. Meaning you're getting a vastly inferior GPU and only saving $90.

These storage prices will need to come down fast.

I'm sure most people who are price sensitive (hence going for a Series S) have no intention of expanding their storage, especially not for $200+

And if they do need expanded storage, they can just get a USB HDD and transfer the games they aren't actively playing to it.

I'm getting the series X and that's what I will do if I need to expand my storage.



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yvanjean on 24 September 2020

Ok, just buy an external hhd... You can park games in and out of your SSD.

2TB is only like $60-80.



ironmanDX on 24 September 2020
yvanjean said:
Ok, just buy an external hhd... You can park games in and out of your SSD.

2TB is only like $60-80.

That's actually a really good idea...



hinch on 24 September 2020

£220 in the UK. Only £30 more and you could get the Series S. Ummm...

We get ripped off so badly.

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Barkley on 24 September 2020
hinch said:

£220 in the UK. Only £30 more and you could get the Series S. Ummm...

We get ripped off so badly.

Wow..... double the price of a PC SSD with equivalent raw speed. Proprietary storage is the worst. I'm sure the price will come down a lot by the end of next year.

£220 for 1tb

£250 for Series S.

It really is insane.



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yvanjean on 24 September 2020
ironmanDX said:
yvanjean said:
Ok, just buy an external hhd... You can park games in and out of your SSD.

2TB is only like $60-80.

That's actually a really good idea...

The good news is that PS5 consoles should work the same way.



Jizz_Beard_thePirate on 24 September 2020

That's hella expensive considering the new Samsung 980 Pro SSD that can do up to 7GB/s costs almost the same

https://www.theverge.com/2020/9/22/21444428/samsung-pc-980-pro-ssd-solid-state-drive-storage-price

250GB for $89.99, 500GB for $149.99, and 1TB for $229.99

Not to mention Samsung's competitors are also going to be launching soon:

https://www.techpowerup.com/272381/adata-xpg-launches-gammix-s70-pcie-gen4-m-2-2280-solid-state-drive

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Louie on 24 September 2020

That's expensive. Why start at 1 TB though? A 512 GB one for half the price would probably do the trick for a lot of people.



d21lewis on 24 September 2020

Somebody will make an adapter.

I currently have 8tb on my Xbox One X in addition to the 1tb that came with the system. One TB on XSX is unacceptable.



yvanjean on 24 September 2020
d21lewis said:

Somebody will make an adapter.

I currently have 8tb on my Xbox One X in addition to the 1tb that came with the system. One TB on XSX is unacceptable.

Well a 2tb SSD is $350, so that's wasn't feasible. Sounds to me someone needs to clean up their drive or you need to buy HHD server to store some of your games.