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Posted 2 July 2023
SEAGATE Expansion SSD for Xbox Series X/S - 1 TB - £139 @ Currys
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Expand the capacity of your Xbox Series X or S with the Seagate Expansion SSD. It gives you an additional 1 TB of space, so you can save loads of games without worrying about having to delete your previous data. And because the drive is built for the superfast Xbox, you'll still get the fastest load times and improved performance
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Xbox Velocity Architecture
Plugs in and works seamlessly with the Xbox Velocity Architecture — providing faster load times, richer environments, and more immersive gameplay from the both the internal SSD and the storage expansion card.
No Wasted Seconds
Quick Resume enables players to seamlessly switch between multiple titles and resumes instantly from where you last left off — always the same speed from the expansion card and the internal SSD.
Level Up Your Legacy
Syncing with the ultra-powerful Xbox Velocity Architecture’s groundbreaking hardware, CPU, and deep software integration, every game that plays from the Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S plays at the same peak levels as the console’s internal SSD. That includes thousands of Original Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One games.
Stock Your Game Vault
Pair an external Seagate Game Drive with your Seagate Storage Expansion Card to build the ultimate Game Vault for Xbox.
Designed to work in harmony with the Xbox Series X|S and the Seagate Storage Expansion Card — Seagate Game Drive is perfect for archiving Xbox Series X|S games and playing your legacy titles straight from the external drive. Stock your Game Vault with Game Drive and stay ahead of the game.
Box contents
- Seagate Expansion SSD for Xbox Series X/S
- Protective cover
- Quick start guide
Dimensions
7.8 x 31.6 x 52.9 mm (H x W x D)
Manufacturer's guarantee - 3 years
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Xbox Velocity Architecture
Plugs in and works seamlessly with the Xbox Velocity Architecture — providing faster load times, richer environments, and more immersive gameplay from the both the internal SSD and the storage expansion card.
No Wasted Seconds
Quick Resume enables players to seamlessly switch between multiple titles and resumes instantly from where you last left off — always the same speed from the expansion card and the internal SSD.
Level Up Your Legacy
Syncing with the ultra-powerful Xbox Velocity Architecture’s groundbreaking hardware, CPU, and deep software integration, every game that plays from the Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S plays at the same peak levels as the console’s internal SSD. That includes thousands of Original Xbox, Xbox 360, and Xbox One games.
Stock Your Game Vault
Pair an external Seagate Game Drive with your Seagate Storage Expansion Card to build the ultimate Game Vault for Xbox.
Designed to work in harmony with the Xbox Series X|S and the Seagate Storage Expansion Card — Seagate Game Drive is perfect for archiving Xbox Series X|S games and playing your legacy titles straight from the external drive. Stock your Game Vault with Game Drive and stay ahead of the game.
Box contents
- Seagate Expansion SSD for Xbox Series X/S
- Protective cover
- Quick start guide
Dimensions
7.8 x 31.6 x 52.9 mm (H x W x D)
Manufacturer's guarantee - 3 years
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Edited by a community support team member, 3 July 2023
88 Comments
sorted byThere is an adapter that claims to hack usage for a WD SSD - the same model as used in the MS Surface Pro if I remember correctly. It's still not cheap but is significantly cheaper than this.
It's been months since I read about it but it may be a good way forward.
The SSD it needs in one specific model that as you said is usually found in Surface devices or it’s the internal SSD of the Xbox Series S console, the CH SN530 M.2 2230 drive. This SSD is an OEM, PCIe 4 x2 drive that isn’t sold at retail so you need a used drive, and a suitable CF to NVMe adapter.
The Chinese modders never got any other drive to work.
Because it’s one specific drive, not sold retail, and in demand for laptop repairs, they are not cheap even when used. Your looking at around £50 for the 512gb unit, plus £30-£40 for the adapter (the adapters are on Amazon) to replace a £90 (WD) or £100 (Seagate) unit.
As it’s around £100 for a 1 TB used drive it’s not saving much (£10-£20) compared to a £139/£149 new 1TB unit.
Given it’s potentially only a small saving, and you end up with storage unit with no guarantee of working, made from a used drive and a Chinese adapter you have to ask if that saving is worth it.
Now, Sony are every bit as bad in other areas, but when it comes to expansions, the way MS has dealt with storage is as anti consumer as you can get.
This deal isn't a deal. It's a rip-off advertised as a deal and consumers lap it up. Not too dissimilar to how publishers like Bethesda upped the price of the FO4 season pass years ago, and when it went on "sale" for its previous price, folk regarded that as a good deal too. Crazy asf. (edited)
You either tolerate not having one with some sort of a workaround or pay for one. Thats the options.
On the plus side, they do hold their money well as a second hand item, so its not like its £139 burned.
Its like all these consoles. They sold at cost price or below, knowing they'll get you with the game and peripheral prices.
I just buy less games now make use of the small space of the internal drive. Well done Microsoft, great business model. I cant be the only one buying less games as a result of their rip off tactics.
Commit to one game, finish it, then delete it and move on to the next one. I feel like XGP has played a big part in creating this mindset of needing lots of games and storage and jumping in between them.
Too much choice is a bad thing IMO. Buy/play one game at a time. You'll never need additional storage. Even if you own a game digitally, if you know you're not going to play it again for a while just delete it. The only permanent installs should be multi-player games that you know you'll play regularly.
Starfield. (AAA 1st party Exclusive)
Forza Motorsport (AAA 1st party Exclusive)
Exoprimal
Lies of P
Payday 3
Persona 5 Tactica
The Lamplighters League
Cities Skylines 2
Party Animals
Texas Chainsaw Massacre.
If you don't currently have Gamepass then you can get it at a much lower price by buying (up to 3 years) of cheap Xbox Live Gold then converting it to Gamepass ULTIMATE just by using a 1 month Ultimate Gamepass code, you can get the Stackable Gold codes from Cdkeys etc. 3 years converted will save you at least a couple of hundred pounds on what you would normally pay MS for Ultimate Gamepass for the same amount of time the money you save will easily cover the price of this drive. (edited)
I just run all the NON X/S stuff from external, and copy X/S stuff to external when I don't use it.
When I go to run it, it says, "Do you want to copy to internal|" and I just let it do it's stuff, takes minutes at max.
I have been managing okay with transferring games back and forth to a normal hard drive but I would love the convenience of not having to do that. Tempted
Currently playing Forza 5, hifi rush, vampire saviours and yakuza 0, all cloud enabled
Great for anything turn based or story. But anything that requires any sort of reaction control is hopeless
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Needs to drop to at least £99 to be worth it, otherwise might as well get a cheap external SSD and just move games.
I've went with both. I bought this at £139 and i have a cheap 1TB SSD for older type games also, so now i've 2TB of external SSD storage for £178 in total. I dont feel aggreived by that.