I found the Xbox version of this in store yesterday on clearance. Walmart lists normal price at $99 but was priced at $50. No clue how good/bad it is but it is much less than the normal Seagate drives for these gaming systems. Hopefully being SSD will mean it is fast and reliable. I haven't tested mine yet.
** Reading the reviews it sounds like it may only be good for archiving Xbox Series X|S games, so not sure I'll keep it. May still be good for some folks however...
Links to both -
onn. Gaming Portable SSD 1TB Compatible with Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S [walmart.com]
onn. Gaming Portable SSD 1TB Compatible with PS4 & PS5 [walmart.com]
Thanks,
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Just a decent portable SSD. I might be sorry for not using a reputable brand for photo storage.
Game downloads where it's not critical if it fails is a good use case on console or PC.
Remember current Gen consoles will NOT play games off the external drive. They can be stored there and transferred to the console's drive for playing and archived in one of these.
Last Gen games can be installed and played off the drive both on last gen consoles or using backward compatibility to play last gen games on current gen consoles.
Just something to keep in mind.
But even if that was the case I'd be curious to see what chips were on the board.
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Anyway you can see two pads for extra chips on this variant I'm going to assume it's the same thing with a slightly different housing and utilities those two extra pads.
If it's not the same thing it'll be a similar concept.
https://youtu.be/EtelWLwgyIw?t=6
On the XBox usage situation,
For XBox One: You can store and run any XBox One game directly from this. Since XBox One comes with a 5400rpm HDD, this SSD should in theory be faster than even onboard storage, improving load-times.
For XBox Series X/S: This is a cheap way to increase storage. However the caveat is that XBox decided that external storage over USB can only be used for backup of games optimized for Series X/S and cannot be launched from the External SSD. Any game titles not optimized for Series X/S, can be installed and run from this drive. While this sounds usable, you need to remember that most games released in the past few years are Series X/S optimized, and even much older games were enhanced to be optimized for Series X/S, severely limiting the selection of games you can run directly from this drive. However if you usually like to keep multiple games installed and you switch between playing them, swapping backup between the internal SSD and this external SSD should be faster than downloading and re-installing on-demand.
If you wanted a truly expandable storage solution for XBox, then only the proprietary storage sticks sold by WD / Seagate provides this flexibility. These were traditionally overpriced. Prices have lowered a bit to $200 / 2TB now, which is still twice the cost per TB of this drive. Otherwise, you could tinker around and replace the internal memory module with a new Nvme module - but this is not easy and voids warranty.
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