Xbox Upgrade: You need a Hack Box

Xbox SSD expansion worth it? Or make it yourself?
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Memory Expansion:

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The Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X | S delivers an additional 1TB of external memory while maintaining the same peak speed and performance of the console's internal SSD for a streamlined gaming experience. The 1TB of extra storage means you’ll have ample space to grow your games library. Easily plug in and play, or remove the card and take your games with you. If you’re looking to add extra storage to your console, this is the card that will enable you to achieve the same performance as the Xbox Velocity Architecture when playing games that have been Optimized for Xbox Series X | S.

[brandontyler]

Of course 64 GB didn't work Microsoft says on their own website that expandable storage has to be at least 128 GB

[longstrike]

Also the reason why this took so long to work is because your Xbox is looking for a certain baud rate if your drive does not communicate the data fast enough your Xbox will assume that it has a weak connection to the storage device and I think you're right the drive itself is fast enough but the adapter itself cannot interpret the data efficiently

[SKINNY_HUMAN]

I went into my local electronic store. Asked him about a 2tb ssd Seagate. He replied "$720"😳😳😳 thank you for your time sir. I'm going home now

[rsolsjo]

You just demonstrated exactly WHY I usually end up buying the official stuff anyway. 😂

"We only had to buy these five things, put them together in exactly the right order, format it, plug it in three times, still didn't really work, we got errors, could potentially be harmful.."

Stop. Just stop. I'll pay the crazy high price, just give me an item that works that I can plug in immediately. 😂

[DadCodBod]

I use my 4TB Seagate external hardrive for a ps4 for my series X and it works perfectly!

[chadhuckaby]

I bought a western digital 5tb external on eBay for 70 bucks and it works flawlessly

[PSLegends]

I still think they should have made at least to ports for the expansion card

[RiceChrispy]

It's probably a good guess that it's the adapter but it's still early on so I'm sure in the future there will be functional models. Probably not on wish though.

[mikepersechino]

The error could be a red herring. Try messing with the cluster size when formatting. This has been an issue in other systems because they had a very specific cluster size. Sounds weird but it has helped in the past. Depending on your skill level, reflowing any soldered parts in the adapter is never a bad idea either.

[AMCKEEL]

Just spend 60 on 2 tb on Amazon for an external. Works perfectly. You may have to move a game here an there between ‘‘em but it literally take 5 minutes for or Valhalla.

[collecttcg]

Use a hairdryer on your controller with the master chief sticker, it will remove the bubbles!

[joycon]

I literally bought some random 600gb drive from Amazon for like $40 and plugged it in and it works perfectly fine idk why y’all guys are spending $100 just for 512 💀

[james]

Back in the day all you had to do was pick up a 2.5 hdd formated right and just drop it back into your 360 slim

[LoweStu]

These SSD adapters work fine in my experience. You guys seem to have put the wrong SSD in it. They only work with either CH SN530 or XA1 SSD drives (not the SN520 you tried in it or even a standard SN530). These two working options are PCIe 4.0 cards.

[stephenrobinson]

The adapter for psvita isn't for their proprietary memory card, it's called SD2VITA and its for modded vita's only, it actually goes into the game card slot and you can use it alongside a vita memory card

My personal slim vita has a 128gb micro SD inside an SD2VITA adapter alongside a 32gb vita memory card

[Mark-mupj]

I got my 1tb expansion card for £150 from CEX store, kept my internal memory free (all on exp card) and also have an external SSD for games that aren't S/X compatible, MS must have locked out everything else except Seagate from the internal memory/system and the card, makes sense why your one didn't work, because the card has to sync to the XB, would have been a great option tho.

[katzunkaimoto]

One thing I reeeeally like about the ps5 is the super easy way to use a m.2 ssd for storage, just pop the cover off and put it in

[pphaell]

From what I saw, Xbox needs a drive with PCIe Gen4 to work as intended. I saw on the beggining of the video that you are using a WD Blue PC SN520, and the PC SN520 is Gen3. In theory, if you look for the CH SN530 should work as the original Seagate card.

[darrenjames]

They should bring back the SSD card to plug in the controller it would great and then you plug and play with friends on there consoles with your own settings to happen

[onavarro]

Ok Ray, you convinced me to buy an official SSD.