Is this Worth $220? Seagate Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S Review + other options 

They legit brought back memory cards. The nostalgia lol

Next year there will be more options for storage and the price will definitely come down,I’d hang on for now

Apple sells their amazing wheels kit for $699. Oh, and they also have a stand for $999. So an 1TB SSD for $220 is really cheap.

No. Just buy a second xbox.

For me this expansion card is a must get whether you have a Series X or S you got to take advantage of that next-gen speed. Just add an external hard drive for gamepass as well. The more the merrier

$200 for a 1TB storage card seems pretty steep

For the people wondering Microsoft is definitely going to make bigger and smaller sizes they’ve stated essentially they just wanted to pair it with the base 1TB to see feedback and such and without a doubt I’d imagine they’ll have a range of 500gb-4tb soon enough. As well as many people don’t trust 3ed party software, many will definitely come out although I don’t think at a much cheaper price simply because they have to compete with sea gate while still being able to fully process the gpu usage of the Xbox but without a doubt some will release and lower the price a bit at the least

i'll wait for them to make a 2 tb or a 4 tb for the same price.

I read that Seagate had a one year exclusive rights agreement to be the sole supplier for Xbox Series X Console expansion ssd cards which ends this December 2021. Looking forward to many other electronic suppliers releasing newer, more reasonably priced ssd cards, to get more storage options out in the hands of consumers.

I purchased the expansion card same day and hooked the 4 TB HD from my Xbox One to the Series X. I probably spent too much time shuffling files around, but I came out with a system that makes sense to me: internal - Series X|S games, expansion - Series X|S overflow & frequent older games, external HD: everything else. I hope 🤞🏼 2 TB is good enough for this generation.

I've noticed the expansion card on sale at Target and a few other retailers for $179.99, so it appears there is a pretty decent margin for retailers to play with. This isn't surprising because there's a problem for console makers producing all digital systems that cut retailers out of the software sales. (Microsoft has entered a profit sharing agreement with Gamestop to incentivize them to make hardware sales without any hope of getting a direct share of the software revenue.) One way to keep retailers on board is to jack up accessory prices. Sony tried to do this with PS Vita memory cards but went way too far and damaged the platform instead. As Microsoft mentioned in their Hot Chips presentation, they chose to go heavy on SSD storage than increasing RAM to an amount comparable to past generations because the cost of flash memory was dropping more rapidly than RAM prices. (The Xbox 360 had 8X the RAM of the first Xbox, and the Xbox One has 16X the RAM of the 360, but the Series X only has 2X the RAM of the Xbox One and only a 33% increase over the One X.) The place Microsoft is expecting to enable the first price cut of the Series X is the SSD. When that happens there should be a similar price cut of the storage expansion card, which is nearly identical other than being package for human handling. If the Series X goes down to $450, then it wouldn't be surprising to see the expansion drop to $170. Perhaps by the next holiday season if flash memory prices continue to drop at a good pace.

I'm perfectly fine with the USB 3.0 drives and transferring games back and forth as needed. I can find something to do for 5 minutes.

I’m thinking in the next couple of years they will be cheaper and hopefully offer more storage. I’m so used to having a 5TB external drive, which I am now using for all backward compatible games, that I can’t bring myself to spend it on 1tb...even if it is super fast. I’d probably only do it if I got to a point where the games are astronomically huge....which could happen in the next few years

I also bought a 2TB NVMe SSD with an external enclosure to put it in so I can use it as an external storage for better transfers between the Xbox Series X internal and the Seagate Expansion 1TB card compare to slower transfer of an external HDD. If you’re tight on a budget then that 5TB HDD is the best way to go. I guess I’m too impatient to wait 26 minutes on transferring games, but it’s definitely faster than downloading it from the internet 😅

Thank you for a fast and informative video!!! 🥳

Funny. I actually bought 2 of those (now older) WD Black USB drives that were for Xbox ... my for PCs! You can also plug-n-play them into Windows 10. The 12 TB model had 200+ MB/s write speeds. One of them I used as a backup for my network share. The other is secondary storage for my main PC. Though it's no ssd, still very cheap and fairly fast large amount of storage at around ~$250-300 depending on sales.

Microsoft needs to implement a storage optimization function with all of these expansion cards and HD support. It should be as simple as adding a card and hard drive, Xbox says you have a storage (pool) of X TB then moves files around to optimize. Microsoft had a technology in the past in Windows that grouped your storage devices to abstract it away to a set of content folders.

I plan on getting one expansion card eventually so I don't have to do much swapping between hard drives and do all the rest on external HDs

Very informative, I was researching about this expansion storage and I have a Seagate 2TB HDD usb 3.0 with all my xbox one games. I am getting the xbox series x and the expansion storage as well for black Friday.

Thanks for the demo and info, have a great day

I have series s, I keep all my games on a 2 tb external hard drive and then keep my couple of newer games on internal

I'd like to see a 4 tb expansion for series x. Then it would be the same as my Xbox One expansion through usb.

I did an external storage drive that I got refurbished at less than 100 for 4 TB, but like Jordan says. It's more to move stuff around. You have to leave space on the SSD, to move Games around when you want to play them. But for sure it is way faster than installing them.

I just jumped from xbox 1 and got the digital series s and ordered this 2tb so far happy just getting ready for some heavy gaming

I bought one cause I was running out of space I didn’t wanna uninstall and install every-time I say it’s worth it if you need more space. The price is alittle unfair though.

I would wait for cheaper 3rd parties options.

My IT professor thought me to never overpay for storage solutions. He says in the early 2000’s he remembered paying hundreds of dollars for a 1gb usb flash drive

I had two 1 TB external hard drives for my Xbox one that I kept once I got my series s, and connected them to the new console. They work just as fine as these, as far as I can tell

Almost anything is worth it if you have the money and it’s something you really want.

Need higher capacity or lower price, $220 for 1TB (even NVMe) is pretty pricey especially since it will only be compatible with series s/x (i.e. can't use it as an external pc ssd). Understand this drive has some unique features vs USB SSDs, but pricing is still pretty steep regardless.

Don't have an SX but on PS5 i just took a 2TB NVME Drive and put it in a USB case with some thermal pads. About the same price as the SX card and you still get the faster loading times at least for last gen games anyway.

I think What I may do is that when I get the Series X, I may just put the games Optimized for it on the Xbox, and fill it with whatever else I can that I'm interested in playing, then put other games on my 2TB hard drive. I'll wait it out till larger (and hopefully) cheaper options are available. This vid has been very helpful. Thank you.

Ill just wait til they release the adapter

Why don't you check how much is a 1TB "NVMe" SSD that's not the Xbox accessory, they are priced pretty close, so don't say it's expensive, NVMe SSDs are pricey for now regardless of who makes them

Great video, thank you

My external non SSD Hard Drive loads game really fast also. Just use the internal SSD for the next gen games and you’re set.

It’s only so expensive now because Seagate has a monopoly over the storage expansion slot, I would just wait.

It's the normal price for a high speed 1tb ssd. Some people look at sata ssd and think is the same.

So you can use the regular drives to move games back and forth to the console storage? But not storage directly on the console?

I got a series x this week, and we'll I had to get one of these cause I hate deleting games and making space haha

Man I'd pay top dollar for 4 or 5 tb.

Some games require you to swap from the external drive to the internal drive just to play

Is coping the game from external to internal pretty effective?

You look like Ryan Reynolds

eh, I bought & am happy with the extra 1tb space

what you cant do is use the usable storage on the series for only next gen titles but still save other last gen games on to a hard drive or SSD

I expected transferring to the expansion card to be quicker. That’s time isn’t that far off from using a Samsung T5, which is a runs at 550MB per second.

Thankfully my download speed is great so if I need to clear space I just uninstall a game I've not played in a while. If I want to play it again, I just download it in 20-30 mins

I don't like how the extended storage only has a 1 TB option. I wish 2, 3, and 4 were also available.

I’ll wait for the price to go down on those.

As a Xbox Series X owner I would highly recommend people to look at the Expansion card rather than the drive if you have Game Pass and want it for Games as almost all the games optimised for X/S only work with the games installed on the internal memory. I made the mistake of getting an external drive which now is basically useless as games needs to be on the internal memory. Yes I could use it as a storage space to then transfer over to the internal memory at a later date but it still means something on my internal memory will have to go to make space. Also constantly removing and reinstall games isn't what I want to waste time doing but I would rather have more games ready at the go to just play straight away.

I've been looking all over the internet for the answer to the question: Does the card actually have a full 1tb (1000gb) of storage or is it one of those 900~950gb once formatted deals? Haven't seen anyone talk about this anywhere.

I wish they would’ve released a 2 TB Expansion Card from the beginning. I’ll wait for that one and that should be more than enough for the life of my XSX.

As of May 2022 Seagate is still the only company that makes expansion storage for xbox x. 1 tb is still $220, or you can get the 2 tb expansion and bite the bullet for $400. The beauty of being the only one who makes expansion storage for Xbox X

Not to be stupid but is this card basically a SDD hard drive? I'm using an older Xbox 4t external hard drive and want to know if there is any advantage of using a card over an external drive?

Using the internal and expansion card for all my X optimized games. Using a 3.2 NVMe 2TB Samsung T7 for all the One X games that I play a lot. And using a Seagate Xbox 2TB HDD for all the One, 360 and OG Xbox games I don't play too much.

Hyping up accessories for next gen consoles when the BOTS have all the systems.

I saw this video as soon as I FINALLY brought the xbox series X. Very helpful in making my decision into getting which internal hard drive to get!

I loaded an external 1tb hdd with my backwards compatible games and Im running my old games from there. I will install only series games in the ssd and the card. If you go the same route you'll probably have more leeway with the X for a while. Both cyberpunk and forza are about 70gb so that's 1/3 of the S' internal memory. I may buy another hdd in the future just to backup and manage next gen series games if I end up loading the seagate card.

Your video didn’t really answer the title... imo it’s worth the price, find me another nvme ssd at that speed for that price.

That's how much an NVM.e with that write speed and storage space costs. 1 TB drives that small are not that cheap.

Will it make my console run faster and smoother so I can an extra advantage in CoD?

I bought this but decided to return. I’m just going to be cheap and delete and reinstall stuff. Also when I realized the hard drive was 44% of the cost of the system that was enough for me

Seagate SSD card is working great. I highly recommend it if you can afford it.

I still have plenty of space on my internal storage that my xbox series x came with. If I bought a seagate ssd thats designed for the storage expansion slot on the back of the console and transferred my games to that from the internal storage would it increase loading speeds/performance ?

I got told about getting one of these seagate ssd for Xbox series X but what am I not getting with these is this just storage? I keep seeing the word speed getting mentioned but the new Xbox is fast already I rarely get anywhere near filling up the 1tb that you get with the Xbox before deleting a game, so is this just for someone who has loads of the biggest games installed and can’t fit them all?

I just think 1 Tb isn't as good as 1.8 Tb for next gen but it's nothing like a good old fashion memory card😁

$225 hell no

What a weird way for Microsoft to add the possibility of storage expansion.. PS5 went the easy way and just gave full choice to the players..

its worth it got all my most loved games on ssd now

SSD's weren't very cheap when they first came out. Specially not at 1tb. So I'd say its worth every penny. I like PS5's option, but its lack of heat sink in the memory compartment worries me.

I am making my own ssd drive WITH a 5tb 89.99

MadCatz is gonna make a comeback now

Quick question I have the series x so the only way to use the optimized games is earthier switching them in the internal or seagate’s external hard drive?

I just can't mentally be comfortable spending $220 only for 1tb.

People are going to complain about the pricing, but these are PCI-E 4.0 drives. 1 TB PCIe-4 for PC are $200, throw in the custom interface adapter and plastic.... $229 is about right.

It’s worth it i got one. It’s better than sonys option right now which is no extra storage at all not to mention they already had the smaller hard drive.

Just bought that expansion from Segate. My palms were sweaty as I clicked ''buy now'' on Amazon, but f*** it. YOLO

At this price guys just buy a Xbox series S as your SSD ;)

Just put a external hard drive on. I put mine on the series s. Now I have 4 tb

Yooo quick question does yours fit in all the way where there’s no metal showing? Mine goes in basically all the way but there is still some of the segate card that’s exposed @ the very end I couldn’t tell at 1:41

If they make a 2tb version it will likely cost twice as much so 400. Let that sink in.

I’m waiting cause I feel a few months or alleged next year the might have a expansion card with more room

You literally informed me of nothing

I've had Seagate drives fail on me in the past so I'm looking forward to a Western Digital expansion for the Xbox Series.

Tbh if u got a series x u can hold of this to you get more next gen games just use an older storage drive to store xb1 games because they don’t need the faster ssd speeds

I bought the expansion! I'm sure it's super fast

It's actually a good price considering what you're getting with read and write speeds and how easily it integrates and I doubt you'd see much difference in prices finding a comparable SSD to the Seagate drive. The problem is people automatically look at the price tag and compare it to something like the WDs drives which are way way slower.

I’m using this now on my series S but I’m about to get a series X soon and I wanted to know if I could take this out of my series S and use it on my series X?

Does the expansion card act as additional space to the hard drive or a separate storage so for instance with the Xbox one x I had bought an external hard drive and in some cases during updates of call of duty it couldn’t determine which hard drive had the content and resulted the game to say I haven’t got that particular files installed so in saying that the Xbox has a choice to choose play games from external or hard itself so my main question does it add to the Xbox hard drive space or a separate storage space

Fast forward to Aug ‘21; yep!

Lol. $359.00 Australian 🤪. Seriously!...

I only play 2 - 3 games at a time at most so I just uninstall the games which I don't play.

Currently the expansion card in the UK is £200, the Xbox Series S is currently £199... It's like the PS Vita memory cards all over again but at least with Xbox you have other options

please help me understand. if i buy and use the seagate storage, can i play the games from said storage or would i have to move them to the internal storage in order to play them?

It’s worth it

Lol nope. Price gouging from hell from Sony and Microsoft on top of the f ing scalpers. Jeez. Enough is enough.

Just wait for Black Friday or cyber Monday you can get the 2tb expansion card for the price of the 1 tb

To save even more money...take advantage of the Microsoft rewards program...just by doing the daily games and incurring points I bought the 1tb card on Microsoft points....200k equals to $200 dollars...now I am going to save towards the 2tb card

Short answer no..... saved u 5mins