I think Microsoft made a crucial mistake not launching the Series S with 1TB storage. They would've sold a lot more hardware + Game Pass membership. I'm honestly surprised they didn't think about this.
I think they shouldhave went with a 1 TB minimum for series s, and 1.5 TB (absolute minimum) or preferably 2 or 2.5 TB for the Series X. One of the only reasons i have so many extra games is because i bought a 512GB sandisk (usb 3.2 gen 2) flash drive which i use to store my BWC games. Amd with the size of games like ark or any newer game, you constantly have to transfer or delete the modern generation games because you play more than 5 games lol
Oh, they thought about it all right... thought about how much money they were going to be able to make selling expansion storage cards when people ran out of space so fast with all these HUGE games today. They knew EXACTLY what they were doing.
@ChristianMulvihillThom yeah right ... they're losing soooo much money. That's why M$ is always on the verge of bankruptcy... no wait, they make BILLIONS in profits.
Cause they knew the complaints they’d get for selling a Series X a few months later for the same price, same size storage. They were $350 this year at Walmart for a solid month. How much would a 1TB Series S go for?
@andrewvigil2448 yeah I have marvel rivals and Indiana jones installed on it right now, they start right up. I will say the games you have in internal storage load a little bit faster, but that’s me being picky. It’s definitely worth the investment.
@@andrewvigil2448hell ya… just got a 1tb from target today…. But using it to store some series s games, all 360 games and using my console memory for big file multiplayer games like cod or you kids with Fortnite
The 1tb WD can now be had for £129 here in the UK, and i have to admit that it really does enhance your Series S now you can store a lot more games on it, oh and the speed transfer once seen cannot be unseen, so be aware once you let that speed genie out the bottle you can't put it back in.....oh and the sustained speeds i saw was just under 6gb a second moving the 150 gig MS2020 to the card from internal.
I think Microsoft intended for customers to purchase accessories for their Xbox Series X. I remember when Xbox 360 had people buying the storage expansion, and 250 GB was more than enough.
1 tb isn’t even enough for me. I just sprung for the segate 2tb. Got it for a pretty good price. Now I won’t be uninstalling games as often when I want to try a new game.
I hate having games on my system or ssd drive that I know I’ll never play so I rather delete them off and keep only the games…. I’m also the type not to redeem every free game just cause it’s free and use up my precious space
OMG! Thank you for this! I had no idea! I just ordered these bad boys using the link. Thank you! I've been waiting for the official expanded memory card to get a price drop. I've always loved the WD Black brand.
Thank you so much @genefactor007! Really appreciate you checking out the video and supporting the channel! Same here, these have kinda flown under the radar, I didn’t know about them until a friend of mine mentioned it to me recently.
Just grabbed my self a 1tb 169,99 CAD. Saved 35$ actually brutal 300gb Xbox internal I used to have a portable storage but I had to transfer over and back, and eventually that hard drive just gave up and died
I think Xbox letting other companies compete in the expansion card market is great. Me I love Pc me and the wife game Xbox is remarkable the fact that I can have one family plan, link the pc and her xbox share everything games and ultimate. i remember like 2 years ago when I first got her the series x for her room it was expensive. 700 for the console and a 1Tb seagate expansion card. Since it’s been dropping I think it’s the best time to get infested into the ecosystem. I just got a series s for the downstairs living room on the 75 inch oled. It was amazing with the prices. I got the series s carbon black 1Tb and a western digital C50 expansion 1Tb for 450 no tax Nh, and i know a couple of years ago it would have been wayyy different if I was thinking about adding another setup in the house!
I won't buy from Seagate now that WD is making cards. I am capitalist to my core but there is a difference between offering a product with good profit margins and what Seagate was guilty of, which was price gouging the customer because they had a monopoly on the XBox storge market. I'm glad i held out and waited for a cheaper alternative.
I have Xbox series s. I bought the WD external drive, it won’t allow me to play some games on the external drive, only on internal drive. If I got the expansion card would that allow me to play games instead of transferring games back and forth. Couldn’t find much info on this please let me know.
Lol seagate just price matched the price of 150. It's actually more affordable to buy the 2tb seagate expansion for 270. You end up paying 135 per tb as opposed to 150 each
Theirs an option that you can change which storage the game will download on…… expansion card or system memory and select”let Xbox decide” 360 games are downloaded to ssd drive and the new cod bo6 was installed in system memory .
1TB on the series x is rather lack luster, I'm struggling to install more than 5 games at a time, and given the time to download and install, and given most games don't let you play via disc even with the disc available. It makes it a rather poor design. Expansion is great but never had to do this with past generation consoles, you could just play straight from disc. This last generations one and x (ps4 and 5) have been worst for gamers from a loading and waiting perspective. Really hope they sort it in the next version. Some games have 100gb updates... I doubt they rewrote the whole code base, they have just made updates really unoptimised. Thanks for your video. Storage expansion seems good but still expensive for the purpose required.
Not really they did it for game updates back than on the 360 and ps3 you didn't have to update games monthly or every few months because of game patches and bug fixes you can blame Cod for that oh and the cheaters on pc as well you wanted anti cheats so you wouldn't be killed every match without getting kills yourself🤷♂️
Can i check, will it run optimsied s/x games from it?? As in can i transfer some games that are optimosed for S/X from my internal to it and will still run ?
I think both WD and Seagate are really expensive and does not make sense. It is basically half the price of a Xbox Series X for a 2 TB expansion. I bought a NVME PCIE 4 2 Tb drive along with an Asus ROG enclosure. It works like a charm, with 2.71 Gbps transfer rate, although I agree that you cannot do direct play. I suggest all not to go for expensive options specially if you have a Series X or new 1 Tb Series S console. You can tranfer back and forth, with 100 Gb transfers taking approx 3 mins.
The internal SSD and Xbox Series expansion cards either Seagate or Western Digital. Will run all of your games. I will be looking to buy a Western Digital 512GB Xbox expansion card later on in the year. Also Xbox Series expansion cards are hot swappable, so you can use more if you have them.
@@JakeVirdenTechSo just to check I currently use an older storage I had before for my xbox one, and if I want to play new series x I have to transfer from that to internal storage. If I use this I won’t have to transfer them if they are stored on the WD storage card ?
@jamiemcronald4418 That is correct. These play and store Series X games without needing to transfer anything 🎉Hooray for Forza Motorsport on Game Pass, plus I bought the Premium Add-on Bundle and then it becomes the Ultimate Edition 😮 with Car Pass and VIP, etc. I bought the Western Digital Black 1TB and no need to transfer games! Good games are huge file sizes nowadays so, problem solved 😊
This has been the way for like decades, some of the unformatted drive space. When formatted is used to catalog data on the drive. You never get stated unformatted capacity, usable when the drive is formatted.
Hi @laurenrichier2435. It does not unfortunately, it slots into the proprietary NVME slot on the Series S/X. I feel ya, the current Gen is a good jump in performance but with the current UI, it is really just a game pass hub with nothing for the user to customize.
They need to make a 3 TB or 4 TB version of this. Though, at this point… I think it’s not worthwhile… Especially if the Xbox is coming out in 2026. For which, they better allow people to put a PC NVME drive in them, instead of going for proprietary… Which is just stupid for everybody. It’s a money grab and nothing more. Just stupidity. So the next console, we can just order a fast NVME Drive off of Amazon for pennies on the dollar compared to these proprietary POS‘s. So that I can just get a huge one and fit all of my games on one NVME drive and be done with it.
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I think Microsoft made a crucial mistake not launching the Series S with 1TB storage. They would've sold a lot more hardware + Game Pass membership. I'm honestly surprised they didn't think about this.
I think they shouldhave went with a 1 TB minimum for series s, and 1.5 TB (absolute minimum) or preferably 2 or 2.5 TB for the Series X.
One of the only reasons i have so many extra games is because i bought a 512GB sandisk (usb 3.2 gen 2) flash drive which i use to store my BWC games.
Amd with the size of games like ark or any newer game, you constantly have to transfer or delete the modern generation games because you play more than 5 games lol
Oh, they thought about it all right... thought about how much money they were going to be able to make selling expansion storage cards when people ran out of space so fast with all these HUGE games today. They knew EXACTLY what they were doing.
They already sell these consoles at a huge loss so that would be just a horrible business decision.
@ChristianMulvihillThom yeah right ... they're losing soooo much money. That's why M$ is always on the verge of bankruptcy... no wait, they make BILLIONS in profits.
Cause they knew the complaints they’d get for selling a Series X a few months later for the same price, same size storage. They were $350 this year at Walmart for a solid month. How much would a 1TB Series S go for?
To the people who bought this, YES: it will play Xbox series x/s games without needing transferring 😊
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Are you sure because im interested in buying one for my 5gb series s they are in sale rn
@andrewvigil2448 yeah I have marvel rivals and Indiana jones installed on it right now, they start right up. I will say the games you have in internal storage load a little bit faster, but that’s me being picky. It’s definitely worth the investment.
@@andrewvigil2448hell ya… just got a 1tb from target today…. But using it to store some series s games, all 360 games and using my console memory for big file multiplayer games like cod or you kids with Fortnite
These fast loading times are cutting into my bong rips.
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Guess we can't have it all sometimes
@@loser18777 we can, but bong rips are prioritize, to us smokers.
Man especially when you switch games or some shit happens to fast 😅
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The 1tb WD can now be had for £129 here in the UK, and i have to admit that it really does enhance your Series S now you can store a lot more games on it, oh and the speed transfer once seen cannot be unseen, so be aware once you let that speed genie out the bottle you can't put it back in.....oh and the sustained speeds i saw was just under 6gb a second moving the 150 gig MS2020 to the card from internal.
I need SSD drive series s my nephew , he wants play cod, but not room fortnight etc, , , I need decent size my sx
I think Microsoft intended for customers to purchase accessories for their Xbox Series X. I remember when Xbox 360 had people buying the storage expansion, and 250 GB was more than enough.
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1 tb isn’t even enough for me. I just sprung for the segate 2tb. Got it for a pretty good price. Now I won’t be uninstalling games as often when I want to try a new game.
I hate having games on my system or ssd drive that I know I’ll never play so I rather delete them off and keep only the games…. I’m also the type not to redeem every free game just cause it’s free and use up my precious space
OMG! Thank you for this! I had no idea! I just ordered these bad boys using the link. Thank you! I've been waiting for the official expanded memory card to get a price drop. I've always loved the WD Black brand.
Thank you so much @genefactor007! Really appreciate you checking out the video and supporting the channel! Same here, these have kinda flown under the radar, I didn’t know about them until a friend of mine mentioned it to me recently.
Just grabbed my self a 1tb 169,99 CAD. Saved 35$ actually brutal 300gb Xbox internal I used to have a portable storage but I had to transfer over and back, and eventually that hard drive just gave up and died
Are Seagate and Western Digital still the only 2 expansion card options?
Yes
I think Xbox letting other companies compete in the expansion card market is great. Me I love Pc me and the wife game Xbox is remarkable the fact that I can have one family plan, link the pc and her xbox share everything games and ultimate. i remember like 2 years ago when I first got her the series x for her room it was expensive. 700 for the console and a 1Tb seagate expansion card. Since it’s been dropping I think it’s the best time to get infested into the ecosystem. I just got a series s for the downstairs living room on the 75 inch oled. It was amazing with the prices. I got the series s carbon black 1Tb and a western digital C50 expansion 1Tb for 450 no tax Nh, and i know a couple of years ago it would have been wayyy different if I was thinking about adding another setup in the house!
I won't buy from Seagate now that WD is making cards. I am capitalist to my core but there is a difference between offering a product with good profit margins and what Seagate was guilty of, which was price gouging the customer because they had a monopoly on the XBox storge market. I'm glad i held out and waited for a cheaper alternative.
I feel ya @_Napoletano_ . Seagate definitely cornered the market on this for a long time, luckily WD came to the rescue lol 😁🙌
I won’t buy anything by Seagate because of the price gouging they are guilty of, they should be prosecuted for it.
“Capitalist to my core” aka has never had a job. Good luck with that my friend! 🤞
@GregoryCunningham aka owns my own small business and I employ on average a dozen men.
@@Libertà_sulla_vita No you don’t.
Can an nvme adaptor be made for it?
Who else needs one just because or COD 🙋♂️
Haha so true Joshua! And I think the game size is only going to grow for COD 😅
So with this card I’m able to play Xbox series s and x games straight off of it?
yes
Where are you getting the Gigabyte speed i have the WD 1tb C50 but all i have is 400kbs
5,97 Gbps reached! The best buy this year!
I have Xbox series s. I bought the WD external drive, it won’t allow me to play some games on the external drive, only on internal drive. If I got the expansion card would that allow me to play games instead of transferring games back and forth. Couldn’t find much info on this please let me know.
Hi @lopes2420. That is correct, expansion cards that utilize the expansion slots on series s and X, allow you to play modern games directly off them.
@@JakeVirdenTech thank you
@@JakeVirdenTechimma get it now cause of this I just got a external and was wondering y I couldn’t play anything
Lol seagate just price matched the price of 150. It's actually more affordable to buy the 2tb seagate expansion for 270. You end up paying 135 per tb as opposed to 150 each
Can I play both x/s and all the Xbox game pass like the ones that are current gen on this?
i dont like how its not specified anywhere. Does this drive support games with the X/S logo? Does it support series X & S enhanced games?
I need to know also
It turns out it does work my guy. It will work for ALL games including enhanced games.@@Xxbdc99xX
Yes it’s just exactly like having a second internal storage
Theirs an option that you can change which storage the game will download on…… expansion card or system memory and select”let Xbox decide”
360 games are downloaded to ssd drive and the new cod bo6 was installed in system memory .
1TB on the series x is rather lack luster, I'm struggling to install more than 5 games at a time, and given the time to download and install, and given most games don't let you play via disc even with the disc available. It makes it a rather poor design. Expansion is great but never had to do this with past generation consoles, you could just play straight from disc. This last generations one and x (ps4 and 5) have been worst for gamers from a loading and waiting perspective. Really hope they sort it in the next version. Some games have 100gb updates... I doubt they rewrote the whole code base, they have just made updates really unoptimised.
Thanks for your video. Storage expansion seems good but still expensive for the purpose required.
Not really they did it for game updates back than on the 360 and ps3 you didn't have to update games monthly or every few months because of game patches and bug fixes you can blame Cod for that oh and the cheaters on pc as well you wanted anti cheats so you wouldn't be killed every match without getting kills yourself🤷♂️
How much longer are we gonna go on with this false advertising of GB space. 512GB is actually 456GB. What is taking up 56GB worth of space already????
The oompa loompas running the games!
I have the 2tb seagate one. Even on sale it still cost me 250. Damn its alot lol
Can i check, will it run optimsied s/x games from it?? As in can i transfer some games that are optimosed for S/X from my internal to it and will still run ?
can i play x/s optimized games with this
Can I play series x/s games on it like I can on internal storage???
Hi @averyfleck5145, correct you can play Series S/X games directly off this expansion drive.
can you play xbox series x/s games on Expansion Card ? all of them?
(I NEED HELP) Will i be able to play gta 6 if i buy a xbox series x/s and this 12 tb expansion card, (NEED GUIDANCE OR UNDERSTANDING
I’ve got a question, can u download and play next gen consoles on the expansion card?
Yep, you can play next gen directly off these cards.
If I put let’s say 2k 24 new gen on the drive I can play it off external storage?
yes
With an expansion card am I able to play when it’s on the card or do I still have to transfer it to the Xbox storage
With the expansion card from Seagate or Western Digital you play direct from that as you would the internal.
The price is literally the same it’s not even cheaper
So the Wd black expansion card lets me play the xs optimized games or do I still have to transfer them to my Xbox?
You don’t need to transfer for the WD Black or Seagate, but you do for anything else
Just an FYI, 3Gbps is 3 gigabit/s not gigabyte/s.
I think both WD and Seagate are really expensive and does not make sense. It is basically half the price of a Xbox Series X for a 2 TB expansion. I bought a NVME PCIE 4 2 Tb drive along with an Asus ROG enclosure. It works like a charm, with 2.71 Gbps transfer rate, although I agree that you cannot do direct play. I suggest all not to go for expensive options specially if you have a Series X or new 1 Tb Series S console. You can tranfer back and forth, with 100 Gb transfers taking approx 3 mins.
I bought a 5tb black model and it died for no reason in less then a year. Ill try seagate next time.
Does this run optimised games?
Correct, it does run Series S/X Optimized titles.
The internal SSD and Xbox Series expansion cards either Seagate or Western Digital. Will run all of your games. I will be looking to buy a Western Digital 512GB Xbox expansion card later on in the year. Also Xbox Series expansion cards are hot swappable, so you can use more if you have them.
@@JakeVirdenTechSo just to check I currently use an older storage I had before for my xbox one, and if I want to play new series x I have to transfer from that to internal storage. If I use this I won’t have to transfer them if they are stored on the WD storage card ?
@jamiemcronald4418 That is correct. These play and store Series X games without needing to transfer anything 🎉Hooray for Forza Motorsport on Game Pass, plus I bought the Premium Add-on Bundle and then it becomes the Ultimate Edition 😮 with Car Pass and VIP, etc. I bought the Western Digital Black 1TB and no need to transfer games! Good games are huge file sizes nowadays so, problem solved 😊
@@mikelanier5617 that’s great cheers mate
How much ,
6:03 I’m confused it’s a 512gb but yet we loose gbs? Urs says 456.0gb.
Hi anonymous-nm7gk. Thank you for checking out the video! Yea some space is lost due to the formatting unfortunately.
@@JakeVirdenTech Damn that sux, W video tho 🙏🏾
This has been the way for like decades, some of the unformatted drive space. When formatted is used to catalog data on the drive. You never get stated unformatted capacity, usable when the drive is formatted.
OMG thank you so much
Affordable?? The 1TB is the same price as the Seagate?
Yeah cuz seagate dropped the prices from $220 to $150.
Very helpful vid
Can you play Xbox series X|S games on it?
Hi @cedricbaladez1! Correct, you can play Series S/X titles directly off the drive with this expansion card.
can we playing x-s games?
Yes, directly off this drive :)
WD 2TB at Walmart for $80
Word?
😅😅 I just looked up the prices recently they are the exact same 150 149.999 for both😊😊
It works nice or game crack?
Does this work for the Xbox one X? I don’t have a series X and I can’t justify getting one 😂😂
Hi @laurenrichier2435. It does not unfortunately, it slots into the proprietary NVME slot on the Series S/X. I feel ya, the current Gen is a good jump in performance but with the current UI, it is really just a game pass hub with nothing for the user to customize.
@@JakeVirdenTech hey thanks for the quick reply!! That’s helpful :-)
@@laurenrichier2435What you need for your Xbox one X is WD Black p50 SSD but I ordered a WD Black HDD 3TB for my Xbox one X for 64.75$
your saying a whole terabite. IS 149 FREAKING DOLLARS?????
Cheaper in terms of the previous Xbox expansion drives, but not as affordable as PC storage. I feel ya though @jasonli5737 lol
So can I play Series X|S optimized game directly from the WD BLACK card??
Yes the C50
@@43X55 Ok, thx man! 🙏🏼
It's the same price
I'm not paying $149 for just 1tb😅
WHAT INTERNET DOES BRO HAVE 2.5gb PER SECOUND
Hi Jimmin! I wish it was that fast, that was just the transfer speed from the internal drive to the expansion card 🙂
Not a cheap alternative at all , and you actually get 456 gig 😂😂😂😂
Well cheep in terms of the other and only expansion cards on the market 😉.
They need to make a 3 TB or 4 TB version of this. Though, at this point… I think it’s not worthwhile… Especially if the Xbox is coming out in 2026. For which, they better allow people to put a PC NVME drive in them, instead of going for proprietary… Which is just stupid for everybody. It’s a money grab and nothing more. Just stupidity.
So the next console, we can just order a fast NVME Drive off of Amazon for pennies on the dollar compared to these proprietary POS‘s. So that I can just get a huge one and fit all of my games on one NVME drive and be done with it.
Can I play both ×/s and all the Xbox game pass like the ones that are current gen on this? @Jake Virden Tech
Hi Spizzy. That is correct, you can play Series S/X and older title directly off this drive.
So with this card I’m able to play Xbox series s and x games straight off of it?
Yes
So with this card I’m able to play Xbox series s and x games straight off of it?
That is correct @blossroom
So with this card I’m able to play Xbox series s and x games straight off of it?
That’s what I want to know
@@fbritton12 Absolutely I agree
That is correct, series X/S games can be played directly off this drive.
@@JakeVirdenTech thanks mate 🤗