Poll: *** Xbox Series X|S - General Discussion Thread ***

Which will you buy?

  • Series X

    Votes: 535 59.5%

  • Series S

    Votes: 105 11.7%

  • Not interested

    Votes: 234 26.0%

  • Both

    Votes: 25 2.8%
  • Total voters
    899
Soulja said:
I never said i was expecting to pay £90. I'm just not willing to pay that much for an expansion that can only be used on my xbox.
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Huh? Your exact words were that it's still £70 too much at £161. £161 minus £70 is £91, which to me indicates that you'd be ok paying £90 which is what I said. That's a completely unrealistic price given today's market and the spec of the storage.
 
CHokKA said:
Your exact words were that it's still £70 too much at £161. £161 minus £70 is £91, which to me indicates that you'd be ok paying £90 which is what I said. That's a completely unrealistic price given today's market and the spec of the storage.
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I never said i was expecting to pay £90 though did i? I am HOPING to pay less for one but it's not something that i expect in the near future but i can happily wait and possibly pick up one that's one sale or off a forum. Don't get so defensive over me hoping to pay a bit less for one.
 
Soulja said:
I never said i was expecting to pay £90 though did i? I am HOPING to pay less for one but it's not something that i expect in the near future but i can happily wait and possibly pick up one that's one sale or off a forum. Don't get so defensive over me hoping to pay a bit less for one.
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Unfortunately it won't get any cheaper until there are more options and sizes. I think Seagate are the only ones currently making these with more company's being brought in later down the line for more options and definitely more sizes becoming available.

I bought one reluctantly because I wanted more space and honestly you can't tell a difference between the internal and expansion card in terms of speed they literally match each other. I was planning to wait but got impatient and didn't want to keep uninstalling things or moving them back and forth for the speed.
 
dakaiez said:
Unfortunately it won't get any cheaper until there are more options and sizes. I think Seagate are the only ones currently making these with more company's being brought in later down the line for more options and definitely more sizes becoming available.

I bought one reluctantly because I wanted more space and honestly you can't tell a difference between the internal and expansion card in terms of speed they literally match each other. I was planning to wait but got impatient and didn't want to keep uninstalling things or moving them back and forth for the speed.
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I don't mind transferring games between my internal hard drive and external SSD but I don't think it will be long until they are full as I'm the kind of person who likes to keep games installed 'just in case' :D fingers crossed we get some cheaper ones down the line.
 
Soulja said:
I never said i was expecting to pay £90 though did i? I am HOPING to pay less for one but it's not something that i expect in the near future but i can happily wait and possibly pick up one that's one sale or off a forum. Don't get so defensive over me hoping to pay a bit less for one.
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I'm hardly being defensive tbh. Your use of language expressly implied that the price is still more expensive by £70 which indicates that you must think it's only worth £90. I queried this with you and you've now said that you didn't actually say that at all. It's a bit confusing tbh.

It's a very high-spec drive and even slower NVMe drives are over £150 for PCIe 4.0, so I'd say that £161 for it is pretty reasonable given the freedom it gives. I have a 1tb external NVMe in an enclosure and even I'm running out of space between that and the internal storage. I can't imagine what it just be like if you're on a PS5 and have no option to upgrade to their fast storage solution yet, with no indication of when that'll be available either.
 
CHokKA said:
I'm hardly being defensive tbh. Your use of language expressly implied that the price is still more expensive by £70 which indicates that you must think it's only worth £90. I queried this with you and you've now said that you didn't actually say that at all. It's a bit confusing tbh.

It's a very high-spec drive and even slower NVMe drives are over £150 for PCIe 4.0, so I'd say that £161 for it is pretty reasonable given the freedom it gives. I have a 1tb external NVMe in an enclosure and even I'm running out of space between that and the internal storage. I can't imagine what it just be like if you're on a PS5 and have no option to upgrade to their fast storage solution yet, with no indication of when that'll be available either.
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You're confused? I just explained what I meant in my previous reply to you. Why are you still trying to make a point about something I'm not even arguing against? I know some of the high spec drives are expensive, that doesn't mean I want to pay £161 for something that I can only use on my xbox.
 
Soulja said:
I don't mind transferring games between my internal hard drive and external SSD but I don't think it will be long until they are full as I'm the kind of person who likes to keep games installed 'just in case' :D fingers crossed we get some cheaper ones down the line.
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I bought the 1TB expansion drive and a 1TB USB SSD... twice for each.

Please send help.
 
MOOGLEYS said:
Yes this is correct.

On your Xbox if you go into settings and then subscriptions it shows when it will expire.

You MUST have an active Ultimate sub to convert the EA Play codes to Ultimate either by subscription or previous code.

No problem enjoy...
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Thanks for this info, so I have 2 1/2 years left of ultimate, I can just top that up with EA passes if I'm reading correctly? I want to keep it at the 3 year mark as long as possible before the inevitable price increase :D
 
CHokKA said:
It's a very high-spec drive and even slower NVMe drives are over £150 for PCIe 4.0
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This isn't correct. It's not that fast a drive. Roughly the same speed as the best PCIe Gen 3 drives. Speed isn't the reason why it's expensive.

The drive uses an M.2 2230 board, which is really small for 1TB of storage. There's only space for one NAND chip, so in order to create a suitably nippy 1TB drive they have to use a 1TB 4D NAND chip. These are the same type of chips found in 2TB PCIe Gen 4 NVME drives on PC. Using 2x 512MB chips would be faster and cheaper, but the PCB simply isn't large enough.

The price is appropriate for what you're getting. If you look around at other portable NVME drives in a similar form factor, they're way slower (e.g. Samsung T5 at 540MB/s). But ignoring the form factor, it's very expensive for the capacity and speed.
 
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You crazy kids paying actual money for Gamepass! I have had Gamepass for PC without paying a penny since it came out. All it takes is 5 minutes of your time each day on the Microsoft rewards site. I actually have about £100 of Microsoft points saved up doing it.
 
I did the 3 year thing back in October and more than happy with the service. Started playing Wolfenstein: Old Blood, quite fun although picking up stuff is excruciating...
 
lovelyhead said:
You crazy kids paying actual money for Gamepass! I have had Gamepass for PC without paying a penny since it came out. All it takes is 5 minutes of your time each day on the Microsoft rewards site. I actually have about £100 of Microsoft points saved up doing it.
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I think it’s working out at about £2 a month with the vpn trick. 5 minutes of my time is more precious than that :p
 
mattf said:
I grabbed one of the seagate expansion drives as on Rainforest they are down to 195 and you can pay over 5 months
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I did the same the other week. Yes it's expensive but I was sick of juggling games, Game Pass is adding more and more games that require the speed of the internal Drive.
 
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