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Seagate's New 4TB Xbox Expansion Card Costs More Than the Xbox Series S (theverge.com) 7

An anonymous reader shares a report: Seagate has announced a new 4TB version of its storage expansion card for the Xbox Series X and S consoles. It's the first time the company has introduced a new capacity since launching 2TB and 512GB versions of the expansion card in late 2021.

The 4TB card is available starting today through Seagate's online store and Best Buy for $499.99, but is discounted to $429.99 as part of a limited-time launch promotion. For comparison, the Xbox Series S starts at $379.99, while the Xbox Series X starts at $599.99.

Seagate's New 4TB Xbox Expansion Card Costs More Than the Xbox Series S

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  • It sounds ridiculous at first but a gen 5 NVMe SSD is about that price. Frustrating, but they don't support HDD's so that's what you're gonna have to pay to play the next COD lol

    • by Entrope ( 68843 )

      That generation of console doesn't have PCIe 5, though -- only PCIe 4. The PS5 uses standard M.2 NVMe drives, but wants them to be high speed (~7 GB/sec). As a result, one can get 4 TB of extra PS5 storage for between $250 and $280; that's a third less than this storage card, and you can use the PS5 drive in a PC if you want.

    • by Tailhook ( 98486 )

      Yep, that's what I figured as well. Retail Amazon price on Samsung 4TB 4xPCIe Gen 4 NVMe is $299. The $150 brand tax is modest: if this were Apple it would be $899.

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