New Seagate 4TB expansion card for Xbox Series X & S will cost you more than the console itself
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Seagate has just unveiled a new expansion card for the Xbox Series X & S recently, and while the idea of quadrupling your storage sounds enticing, the price may put you off altogether.
Gaming consoles are a great alternative to gaming PCs; however, what they have in ease of usage is countered by the lack of upgradability. In this day and age, where AAA titles can easily cross 200 or even 400GB post-download, the gaming console community always has to pick and choose the titles they want to play and repeat the cycle of deleting a title to make space for another game.
However, external storage devices provided a solution to this issue, and recently, Seagate took it to the next level with its latest NVMe SSD release.
Seagate 4TB Xbox Storage Expansion Card
Seagate 4TB NVMe SSD for Xbox
Previously, we had a 1TB and a 2TB Seagate NVMe SSD, which you could use to expand the storage of your Xbox. They cost $159.99 and $259.99, respectively, but right now you can grab those for $149.99 and $249.99 on Best Buy as their prices have been cut.
As for the newly launched 4TB variant, which, like the other options, works perfectly fine with the Velocity architecture, costs $499.99, but you can save $70 on it right now and get it for $429.99. For comparison, the entire Xbox Series S console (512GB) has a price tag of $379.99, and the 1TB variant matches the discounted price of the 4TB Seagate SSD.
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So, without the discount, that single component is more expensive than the entire console, but a combined 5TB of storage that allows you to download multiple games without running out of space or experiencing slow loading or compromised performance is the dream of every console gamer.
The only trade-off is the price, which you can think of as a one-time investment, but since these SSDs were designed for Xbox, they’ll only be compatible with that, and you can’t use them with another console, if you were to move platforms, such as the PlayStation 5.
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