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don’t regret it at all, really need that extra TB
I bought a 1TB internal SSD with an external enclosure adapter for about $100 and found it cheaper than buying an external drive. It’s worked great for me. I keep all of my optimized games on the Series X and then run all of my backwards compatible games from the SSD. Load times are still improved and it leaves me with room to spare on the Series X HD.
The SSD was on sale when I purchased it.
I bought it day one. It is expensive but worth to have. games nowadays needed more and more space on the ssd. I m always shocked how fast I ve adapted to the quik loading times. Yesterday I ve fired up my dusty ps4 and to play some Horizont zero dawn and it was loading forever.
Me. I used all my MS reward points so it was close to “free”.
I find it invaluable, because I have lots of games I like to jump back into occasionally that I don’t want to uninstall or move to cold storage. Gears 5, Forza + Horizon (multiple for each), MCC, Halo 5, Sea of Thieves, Minecraft and Minecraft Dungeons, all that kind of stuff. Having the expansion card means I can have all those, plus single player games I’m playing, plus my Game Pass queue all installed at once.
I also have an external 1TB SSD for back compat titles so that they aren’t competing for space. I love collecting 360 and OG games and diving back into stuff like Oblivion just for the nostalgia feels. In total something like 400 GB free out of 3 TB.
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I have a 4TB SSD external in addtion to the 1TB NVMe drive …
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It’s way overpriced for what it is. I don’t see the point in having 20+ games installed. Mostly I play single player and when I finish them they get deleted. Now, if I played Call of Duty, Destiny, Madden, FIFA and GTA all the time I can make the case because those games you go back to over and over again
But as a single player focused gamer the value isn’t there. And remote installs/uninstalls is another factor.
I just built most of a gaming PC (having trouble finding a GPU that doesn’t have the price marked up 2-5x so still using an older one), and the pcie 4.0 nvmes that I put in there are right in line with this cost. (I ended up getting a 1 tb (which cost about $200) & a .5 tb nvme, along with 2tb hdd for storage, and probably going to have to add at least another 2 tb ssd at some point. It’s not overpriced when you compare it to similar performing tech. Yes the price will eventually come down, but its not unreasonable for what you’re getting right now: a purpose built high speed nvme with good heat distribution and a presumably high TBW (terabytes written) expectancy.
Not saying to get one if you don’t need it, but it’s really not any more expensive than anything similar.
And I’m very interested to see what the other form factors they intend to introduce are. Maybe we’ll see something else this year still, though I’d guess not yet.
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I’ve had mine since day 1 and I’m glad I got it considering I’m almost always full. With Game Pass I see myself playing so many different games at once that I can’t see myself without it to be honest.
For sure if you just play single player games 1 or 2 at a time and don’t really go back to them, you don’t need the storage expansion. It really depends on what kind of player you are.
I don’t think it’s too overpriced though, aren’t 1TB PCIe 4 drives around $200? And I’ve already seen the storage card on small sales like $199.
Not overpriced at all. Look at other CFExpress cards on the market, they are way more expensive with less bandwidth. Also you have to add the value of “hot-swappable plug & play” to the equation. Just add the cost of half an hour of installing it on a PC or PS5 → Open case, install it correctly, close case.
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Noticed today that when my internal drive filled up the console defaulted to the HDD that I have attached not the expansion card, couldn’t find anything in settings. Do I need to configure expansion as priority 2 or is this a bug?
IDK. I have the internal as default and I move BC games after install to the 4TB SSD or Series X games to the external NVMe. It may not the most efficient way to do it but at least I have control over it and no double installs. Once files are on the right storage, updates are done on the correct drive. There is one caveat though as DLC has to be moved too after installation.
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Had a poke about with a few installs to test how this is working and it looks like this is intended behaviour, when internal is full any back compat titles downloaded go to external storage as default for copy to faster storage if desired. Any titles enhanced for series X give an error message stating internal storage full do you want to install to external storage.
Would be nice to alter this so it’s configurable so that once internal is full all downloads go to external storage by default to save the error click through and copying step.