Best Buy Lists Xbox Storage Expansion Cards That Are More Affordable Than WD

Western Digital is about to begin promoting its personal storage enlargement playing cards for Microsoft’s Xbox Sequence X|S sport consoles. BestBuy listed these playing cards on its web site the weekend forward of its official launch, revealing that these units can be cheaper than these supplied completely by Seagate for over two years (through Border).

WD_Black C50 Growth Card for Xbox listed by BestBuy (opens in new tab) (archive link) has 1TB of storage capability and prices $180. Against this, Seagate’s 1TB storage enlargement card has a listing worth of $220, however presently $190 on Amazon (opens in new tab). In the meantime, Seagate’s 512GB drive has an MSRP: 110 dollars (opens in new tab)If the price of a 2TB disk is 360 dollars (opens in new tab) (initially lower than $400).

Curiously, Amazon additionally has placeholders for 4TB, 5TB, and 8TB enlargement playing cards; This means that Seagate could also be making ready higher-capacity variations of enlargement SSDs for Xbox Sequence X|S consoles.

Microsoft’s newest Xbox Sequence X|S sport consoles use proprietary storage enlargement playing cards. These playing cards come within the CFexpress 1.0 Sort-B kind issue, however use two PCIe Gen4 lanes that transcend the 2 PCIe Gen3 lanes required by the CFexpress 1.0 Sort-B specification.