Is Xbox insane with this price? I got a good 4tb external hard drive for $94. Nobody will buy this crap. null

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Shawn · Accepted Answer

your 4 tB will not give you the speeds that you need to match the internal ssd since yours is a Hdd. and this price is about right compared to other nvme of the same type

ClamClan · Answer

No they're not crazy. SSDs at this speed are expensive. 
Your 4TB hard drive goes max 120MB/s and this goes 5000MB/s,

mattt · Answer

Hard drive VS NVME4x2 SSD. Big difference

CountScotula · Answer

No, and PS5 prices for their SSD will be similar in cost. These will come down in time, but for the SSD speeds required for these consoles this is simply how much it costs to buy a compatible SSD. You can use your 4TB HD though to play current gen games or transfer your next-gen games back and forth between the system SSD and your external rather quickly as a much cheaper solution.

Answered by CountScotula 4 years ago

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Except you can't play Xbox Series X optimized games on anything but the internal hard drive or this expansion card. It's not some junky HDD it's a PCIe nvme SSD. Check out amazon and see what they run......

https://www.polygon.com/2020/9/24/21454190/xbox-series-x-storage-expansion-card-price-seagate-ssd-1-tb-buy

MyOwnCreation · Answer

You will be able to use your current Hard Drive, but it won't optimize those games to the Series S/X Specs. Even if you have an external SSD, the ones coming out on the new consoles are a higher quality. The only way to expand the memory capacity and utilize the full Specs is to get this for Xbox Series S/X.

Answered by MyOwnCreation 4 years ago

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SSD (Solid State Drives) Are expensive because of their speed.. Your External cheap $94 drive is less then 1/100th the speed of this kind of SSD... PS5 will have even more expensive drives.. This is not a bad price if you understand what it is.

Answered by Anonymous 4 years ago

RCYoung · Answer

No, it's not too shocking to be honest. NVMe Gen4 SSDs are expensive to begin with. However, they're relatively new and top of the line SSDs. With that being said, regardless if you're looking to buy one for a next-gen console or a PC, you're going to spend around $200+ for a new NVMe Gen4 SSD. And to make a long story short, a HDD is much slower than SSDs. Hope this helps...cheers!

Answered by RCYoung 4 years ago

Facexstabber · Answer

You should not think of this as a Normal HDD or even SSD, it has the specs only obtained from high-end NVMe drives in the m.2 format. ANY external hard drive using a USB cable regardless of generation will not be able to come close to the amount of speed required to run the new generation of games (USB is simply too slow). 

As a matter of fact all new Xbox series games will be required to be installed on either the internal hard drive or this specific external hard drive because of the speeds needed. 

This hard drive connects directly to the hardware through PCIe 4.... Yes it is expensive but for what it is and what it should be compared to it is a competitive price.

Michael · Answer

This NVMe drive is about 4-500% faster than the 4gb you have and while the Microsoft drives sounds expensive it's not that expensive compared to the m.2 drives and the fact that it's external (portable) and made for the Xbox it's worth the extra few dollars 
There are bigger reasons not to buy the new series but the hardware isn't the problem. The lack of new exclusive content is a much bigger issue

Jimbo · Answer

Platter disks are slow, those are so last decade. It is all bout speed of retrieval of data. The SSD connects directly to the bus of the the system not through an interface like SSCI, Thunderbolt, USB and the like direct access from the processor. This is a very smart move, Need more storage swap out the SSD cartridge you have more storage. The PS5 you have to take it apart, put another SSD stick in the slot. Not very convenient when you have lots of big games. Do you want to spend 20 minutes transferring a game from a platter hard drive to an internal SSD? There is no reason why Samsung or Sandisk can not make these cartridges. And the price run the same as a stick and oops the static zapped my SSD stick taking it in and out of a PS5.

Tehama · Answer

You're comparing a 4tb mechanical hard disk to a PCIE Gen 4 nvme drive. All PCIE Gen 4 nvme SSD's are expensive. Gen 4 motherboards just came out last year, Samsung hasn't even released a Gen 4 nvme SSD to the market yet. That's how new these are. This drive is for performance, not mass storage. Google and look up prices for what a 1TB PCIE Gen 4 nvme drive costs and you'll see this falls in line with that.

I'm picking this up Day 1.

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You’re right. A 1tb ssd of similar quality would be half the price of this one. Everyone trying to justify the price of these doesn’t know what they’re talking about. Even on sale this is twice the price of normal ssd storage with comparable speeds

BigJae · Answer

You can't run Series X games off an external hard drive. Only One/360/Original XBox. Series X can only run off internal or this expansion brick.

packersfan036 · Answer

I bet that he can only play backwards compatible games, i tried to use a external ssd drive, and i could not launch xbox s series games. would only let me store games.

smithy · Answer

Yea you being all cocky saying only an idiot would buy this for that much and how u got a hd w 4tb for 100.00 just made u sound like an idiot! One that’s a hdd and not an ssd so it won’t even work to play and save new Xbox series x and s games only last gen stuff. Soo have fun. U basically just wasted 100.00 and here u we’re just soo cocky about it. This is why u don’t say stuff like that w out fact checking. Yes 200.00 is a lot but there will b more brands and models later into the cycle, plus they will start going down in price a bit later on.

Idkk · Answer

This is questions and answers not a place to complain about prices

Gamer369 · Answer

Xbox is insane with the price but because there is no other company that is making an external drive like this that is fast and compatible to the new Xbox, where it can use every feature it has; Microsoft decided to go with a high price point. The price would eventually decrease when there is more of its kind made from different companies. Sadly that’s business, which sucks for Xbox fans.

AmazonIsBetter · Answer

Yes, it is way overpriced. It is NOT competitively priced. Why do people say it is when they clearly haven't priced things for themselves. You can buy a 2 TB NVMe PCIe Gen 3.0x4 M.2 2280 3D NAND Internal Solid State Drive which is FASTER and an enclosure for it at almost the SAME PRICE as the Seagate Expansion Drive. Gamespot had an article showing that the internal SSD/Seagate expansion drive is about TWO seconds faster than a Samsung T5 on Xbox Series X's SLOW usb ports. Buy that (frequently priced at $249---way DOWN from its original price) for anything not optimized for XS/X. You can of course store optimized XS/X games there and simply move them to the internal SSD very quickly. Anything faster than a T5 is pointless for XS/X since the slow usb ports won't allow data to transfer any faster.

https://www.bestbuy.com/site/samsung-t5-2tb-external-usb-type-c-portable-solid-state-drive-deep-black/6026204.p?skuId=6026204

DavidF · Answer

Agreeing with OP. I am not paying $200 bucks for that thing. I might pay $100 on down-the-road. But that is way too expensive.

“Is Xbox insane with this price? I got a good 4tb external hard drive for $94. Nobody will buy this crap.”

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