If you're an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S owner, the only way you can play next-gen games right now is via those consoles' internal storage, or via a special Seagate 1TB Expansion Card which admittedly is very costly.
However, Amazon UK has now dropped the price by a welcome 17%, going from £219.99 at launch, to £183.32 as of today. It's not quite the lowest price it's been, but it's certainly one of the biggest discounts we've seen so far.
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The reason the Seagate 1TB Expansion Card is so expensive is because it's custom built to run at exactly the same high speeds as the internal storage on the new consoles, meaning games load much faster than on last-gen systems, and transferring data between the internal storage and the Expansion Card is seriously rapid.
You can, of course, just store next-gen games on any old USB hard drive until you're ready to play them, and Xbox One, Xbox 360 and original Xbox games work just fine on generic external hard drives, so you don't need one of these right away. But if you've had one on your wishlist for a while, this might be a deal to take advantage of.
Are you picking up the Seagate 1TB Expansion Card? Let us know in the comments below.
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£183 for 1tb storage is way too high, custom or not.
@ResoluteCustoms
£183 is actually about right at current prices.
For example, the Samsung 980 PRO 1 TB PCIe 4.0 M.2, which on paper meets the specs for use as an internal PS5 expandable storage (when activated and Sony confirm), is currently £180 on Amazon on offer vs £192 retail price. And that's a non-custom solution.
Luckily, if these are too expensive, you can just use a regular HDD/SSD and move games back and forth when needed.
I want more storage, but I think I’ll wait until they come with more than 1 TB.
I will pay no more than £80 for this so I will be waiting a while
I'm just swapping between my 8TB external and internal and it really isn't a chore or that time consuming. Will grab one eventually (missed out on a Facebook sealed one for £120 due to having to bloody isolate because of track and trace. Seller wouldn't post.)
I'll wait for a black friday type of deal, In canada the expansion card is almost the same price as a Xbox Series S..
That's over half the price of the series s for just 1tb of extra storage
@blinx01 samsung is just greedy. I got the top rated WD_BLACK SN850 for 165eur last wek from Amazon.de
this is still too expensive for imho, especially for something that's only usable in Xbox. I'm ready to pau 150 for it
Its definitely expensive but it makes swapping games between the Series S and X a piece of cake as you can just hot swap the card and it reads in both systems so I don't have to worry about storage.
The 1 TB is plenty for me since most of the games are taken up by Gamepass titles which I have no problem deleting as needed & I have a ton of old 360 & OG Xbox discs which don't take much space. The rest that I own fit in nicely, not sure if I'd get more storage any time soon. Hope to benefit from price drops
For now happily balancing between
The external 2TB SSD (MX500 + SATA to USB bridge) loads all backwards compatible games JUST AS FAST as the internal drive (Digital Foundry and others confirm this) and is also good for any Series X|S games that DON'T require the internal drive (there's quite a lot of these) AND for much faster transfers on temporary cold storage of Series X|S games.
While the 4TB HDD is great for longer term storage or backwards comparative games where load times aren't as important.
For now in no rush to expand the internal storage at these prices. Hopefully by the time I feel the need for one prices will have dropped further to nearer 1TB for £100 or 2TB for £200 in a year or two.
... but Flight Sim, Forza Horizon 5 and Halo etc. could change this pretty quickly
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