I'm looking to get an xbox expansion card / SSD ideally 1TB in size.
They seem to be a resilient £150 across the board.
Does anyone have any idea if these will go on sale at all? Crystal balls at the ready? or likely to just stay high for ages?
I do have a voucher to use at Currys so if they had a sale on that would be rather nice!!! 🤷♂️🎅
Thanks","comment":[{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51834744","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Willy_Wonka"},"datePublished":"2023-12-26T10:40:47.000Z","text":"Ignore me. You want to play games directly from it.
\t"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51836789","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"aLV426"},"datePublished":"2023-12-26T15:15:18.000Z","text":"If you want to play the games and use the features of the Xbox Series X then you need to use the expansion slot. Any other drive will act as storage and can't be used to play directly from.
I doubt the prices will drop any time soon and probably not during the lifetime of the console."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51834622","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Willy_Wonka"},"datePublished":"2023-12-26T10:28:37.000Z","text":"Can't you use most NVME M.2 drives for XBOX external storage?
If so just buy this & an enclosure
hotukdeals.com/dea…114"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51835044","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Denney_Masters"},"datePublished":"2023-12-26T11:14:30.000Z","text":"Just buy an external hard drive and transfer the games across when you want to play them. I refuse to buy the Expansion cards because of thier price."},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51840128","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Skyblue22"},"datePublished":"2023-12-27T00:12:36.000Z","text":"Expansion on xbox is expensive that's one advantage of ps5 with m.2"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51856704","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"C0mm0d0re_K1d"},"datePublished":"2023-12-29T01:01:12.000Z","text":"Microsoft have so far only allowed Seagate to make and sell them. So you either have to pay the asking price or use a standard external drive.
You can get a Chinese copy of the official case, but it only works with 1 specific make and model of SSD. Which are quite difficult and expensive to get - aliexpress.com/ite…xlb"},{"@type":"Comment","@id":"https://www.hotukdeals.com/comments/permalink/51868809","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Zion"},"datePublished":"2023-12-30T14:52:38.000Z","text":"The Western digital cards are usually a little bit cheaper, there going for £140 on amazon at the moment.
Don't think the prices will come down anytime soon as there are only 2 manufacturers of these cards. If you go down the avenue of using an external SSD drive to transfer games back and forth the xbox series consoles are limited to 5Gbps over USB so buying the fastest NVMe drive will be a waste. Find a SSD that can sustain around or above 625MB/s, will need to be a TLC drive as QLC drives sustain rate is terrible."}],"commentCount":17,"interactionStatistic":1,"articleSection":"Ask"}