Xbox Series X|S expansion card from Seagate now comes in 4TB — quadruple your storage for $499
That's a lot of storage, and a lot of money
Seagate has today unveiled a brand new monster 4TB version of its Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S, available to gamers now at the eye-watering price of $499.99.
Seagate has previously offered the 1TB and 2TB variants of its expansion cards for some time. In the age of the huge AAA title that takes up all your hard drive space (Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 pushes 400GB if you tick all the boxes), downloading, deleting, and redownloading titles as you play can be exhausting.
Seagate's Expansion Card drastically increases the overall storage of your Xbox console so you can stuff it full of games to your heart's content, knowing that there'll always be something you want to play at hand. Probably. What's more, having more storage can ensure that vital automatic updates to your games aren't stalled by a lack of hard drive space, a woe all too familiar.
Like its smaller siblings, the new 4TB Storage Expansion Card, the drives are a seamless match for the Xbox Series X|S' internal drives, running at the same speed and performance. Crucially, these drives are better than your average external hard drive for Xbox, because you can play the games directly from the hard drive without transferring them to your Xbox's internal SSD, a novelty reflected in the massive price tag.
All of Seagate's expansion cards work exclusively with Microsoft's Xbox Velocity Architecture, which delivers speedier load times of textures for more immersive gameplay. What's more, running backwards-compatible games from previous generations will usually yield better performance than the original console, another nice boost.
The 4TB model boasts the same exact dimensions as the 1TB and 2TB models, as well as the same 128MB cache.
As mentioned, this luxury doesn't come cheap. The new 4TB Expansion Card costs $499.99, although there's a $70 saving at Best Buy in time for the launch just now. You can also find them at Amazon in the U.S., as well as at a host of UK retailers including Argos, Amazon, ebuyer, and Scan. Depending on your Xbox, that means the 4TB card costs the same as a 1TB Series X, or substantially more than even the beefier 1TB Series S. Still, quadrupling your storage is an enticing prospect.
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TerryLaze Reply
Go home forum, you drunk.Admin said:Seagate has unveiled a new 4TB version of its Xbox Series X|S that costs $499.99.
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(you forgot the word card in that headline) -
Pemalite And this folks is why propriety sucks.Reply
The expansion card shouldn't cost roughly the same amount (Or more than the Series S) as the console it's going into. -
John Nemesh This is laughable. Talk about a day late and $300 short! I bought a 4TB drive for my PS5 (now in my pro) for a little over $200...almost a YEAR ago!Reply
I learned my lesson with the overpriced storage on the XBox 360...and wasn't going to EVER buy another console with proprietary storage. I feel bad for the people who were suckered into buying an Xbox Series S or X! -
punkncat ReplyJohn Nemesh said:This is laughable. Talk about a day late and $300 short! I bought a 4TB drive for my PS5 (now in my pro) for a little over $200...almost a YEAR ago!
I learned my lesson with the overpriced storage on the XBox 360...and wasn't going to EVER buy another console with proprietary storage. I feel bad for the people who were suckered into buying an Xbox Series S or X!
I would laugh. Sony taught me about the lies years ago. "Oh yeah, your games will work on the new one." -
John Nemesh Reply
And what part do you find funny? The ONLY console PS5 doesn't support is the PS3....punkncat said:I would laugh. Sony taught me about the lies years ago. "Oh yeah, your games will work on the new one." -
punkncat ReplyJohn Nemesh said:And what part do you find funny? The ONLY console PS5 doesn't support is the PS3....
For real? Now they fixed it without making you sign up for an online service or to buy another handheld device? REALLY?!?! Let me rush out and....no, that is lie. They boned us early adopters for years with those lies. -
John Nemesh Reply
Yeah, I have better things to do than discuss this with a fanboi. Bye now.punkncat said:For real? Now they fixed it without making you sign up for an online service or to buy another handheld device? REALLY?!?! Let me rush out and....no, that is lie. They boned us early adopters for years with those lies. -
punkncat ReplyJohn Nemesh said:Yeah, I have better things to do than discuss this with a fanboi. Bye now.
You deny that Sony left buyers out in the cold for generations on game purchases they couldn't use on their new systems?
This isn't fanboi in spite of not liking the message. It is, indeed, fact. I was there. I owned PS up to the Blu-ray player version and quit using it for anything other than that until it died.
Here we are with MS pulling a similar stunt to force you to pay big $ for more storage. I feel fairly confident they offer something cloud.
Here we are with Nintendo offering a new Switch that if you, as the owner, decides to load a program allowing you to play your aged library, they brick it for you.
How is that fanboi, fact denier?