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Yikes, Xbox Series X 1 TB SSD expansion card will purportedly cost at least $199 USD or half the price of a Playstation 5 Digital Edition

Started by Redaktion, September 22, 2020, 19:14:44

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Redaktion

The proprietary XBox Seagate drives are going to cost an arm and a leg relative to the prices of the new consoles themselves if you plan on expanding their storage capacities.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Yikes-Xbox-Series-X-1-TB-SSD-expansion-card-will-purportedly-cost-at-least-199-USD-or-half-the-price-of-a-Playstation-5-Digital-Edition.495031.0.html

Spunjji

The framing of this article is pretty unfair. You compared the price of the XBox expansion SSD to a PCIe 3.0 4X M.2 SSD, yet the PS5 will require something like the Samsung 980 Pro as a minimum, and that has an MSRP of $229.

A perfectly suitable alternative headline would be "Cost of the Xbox 1TB expansion SSD will be similar to the PS5".


neblogai

That is like the second one that shows (valid) weak points of Xbox- the other one was about it lacking Wifi6, or USB-C. However- there were plenty of anti-PS5 articles, and those were actually quite unfair. So either there are some biased writers here, or articles are written to invite arguing.

Stuart Lee


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hfm

Wait, you're price comparing a PCIe 4.0 SSD to a PCIe 3.0 SSD?

Lets price match some PCIe 4.0 SSDs on Amazon against it
XBoX Series X 1TB...........$199
Sabrent Rocket 1TB..........$199
Corsair Force 1TB.............$189
Gigabyte Aorus..................$197

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?! You clearly have no idea what you are doing here.

I guess you could maybe complain a year from now if these prices of PCIe 4.0 SSDs fall and the one from MS stays at $199, but you could probably find it discounted at that point..

Chris Kelly

This post is factually incorrect.

I don't believe the poster doesn't know the difference between PCIE 3.0 and 4.0 ssds. Therefore it has been deliberately written to give a false impression of the product.

Samunosuke

Let's revisit this post when the price list of PS5 compatible SSDs is released. No need to beat a dead horse as others have already pointed out the difference between PCIe 3.0 and 4.0 but NBC really needs to review their hiring practices.

Quality of articles is steadily dropping off a cliff. Writers and editors don't bother to perform basic fact checks before releasing articles and biases shine clearly through.

ckatech

Yikes a clickbait article by a computer review site that doesn't seem to know the difference between PCIE 3.0 and PCIE 4.0 prices.  Yikes I wonder if this will be retracted when Sony's SSD costs the same, Yikes probably not.

_MT_

Not to mention that a price in GBP raises alarm bells about included taxes and fees. The price seems reasonable for a high performance drive. Have you seen what laptop manufacturers sometimes ask for higher capacity SSDs? Or phone manufacturers for storage?

IrregularCraig

That's a pretty standard price for high quality 1TB SSDs, so what's the problem. Welcome to the PC world ;)

Devil0815

The XBOX Series X Expansion Drive have only PCIe 4.0 2x an this is the same as PCIe 3.0 4x.

PCIe 3.0 4x NVME SSD's for PC with 1TB starts at 120€.

NVME SSD's for PC with PCIe 4.0 4x are much faster.

XBOX Series X Expsnsion Drive 1TB PCIe 4.0 2x for 200$
PC NVME SSD 1TB PCIe 4.0 4x ~ 200$

This is a huge difference in price and performsnce. The Expansion Drive is very expensive and slower.

Devil0815


XBoX Series X 1TB...........$199  PCIe 4.0 2x
Sabrent Rocket 1TB..........$199  PCIe 4.0 4x
Corsair Force 1TB.............$189  PCIe 4.0 4x
Gigabyte Aorus..................$197 PCIe 4.0 4x

WHAT ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?!

Jerry Chase Jerz

Went to make the same argument as everyone else , very satisfied to see the comments already there.


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