Seagate's New 4TB Xbox Expansion Card Costs More Than the Xbox Series S (theverge.com)
(Monday June 09, 2025 @11:30PM (msmash)
from the tough-luck dept.)
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- News link: https://hardware.slashdot.org/story/25/06/09/180229/seagates-new-4tb-xbox-expansion-card-costs-more-than-the-xbox-series-s
- Source link: https://www.theverge.com/news/681254/seagate-4tb-xbox-storage-expansion-card
An anonymous reader shares a report:
> Seagate has announced a new 4TB version of its storage expansion card for the Xbox Series X and S consoles. It's the first time the company has introduced a new capacity since launching 2TB and 512GB versions of the expansion card in late 2021.
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> The 4TB card is available starting today through Seagate's [1]online store and Best Buy for $499.99 , but is discounted to $429.99 as part of a limited-time launch promotion. For comparison, the Xbox Series S starts at $379.99, while the Xbox Series X starts at $599.99.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/681254/seagate-4tb-xbox-storage-expansion-card
> Seagate has announced a new 4TB version of its storage expansion card for the Xbox Series X and S consoles. It's the first time the company has introduced a new capacity since launching 2TB and 512GB versions of the expansion card in late 2021.
>
> The 4TB card is available starting today through Seagate's [1]online store and Best Buy for $499.99 , but is discounted to $429.99 as part of a limited-time launch promotion. For comparison, the Xbox Series S starts at $379.99, while the Xbox Series X starts at $599.99.
[1] https://www.theverge.com/news/681254/seagate-4tb-xbox-storage-expansion-card
Cost (Score:2)
It sounds ridiculous at first but a gen 5 NVMe SSD is about that price. Frustrating, but they don't support HDD's so that's what you're gonna have to pay to play the next COD lol
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That generation of console doesn't have PCIe 5, though -- only PCIe 4. The PS5 uses standard M.2 NVMe drives, but wants them to be high speed (~7 GB/sec). As a result, one can get 4 TB of extra PS5 storage for between $250 and $280; that's a third less than this storage card, and you can use the PS5 drive in a PC if you want.
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250 is less than 1/3 of 500?
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$280 is 35% less than the current price of $430, genius.
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"a third less" is not "less than a third"
"a third less" = 2/3.
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Yep, that's what I figured as well. Retail Amazon price on Samsung 4TB 4xPCIe Gen 4 NVMe is $299. The $150 brand tax is modest: if this were Apple it would be $899.