Top SSD recommendations for Xbox Series X

24.02.2023

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Storage area inside our gaming consoles goes to an outright costs nowadays. Even though the Xbox Series X ships with 1 TB of integrated storage space (the Series S has simply 512 GB), you might be surprised — no, horrified — by just how swiftly that area can obtain demolished by games, updates, applications, as well as conserves. Game Pass participants specifically ought to be advised that taking place a downloading and install spree will likely finish (swiftly) in despair — that is, up until you update your storage space.

If you’re regularly evasion around game installments as well as questioning where you’re mosting likely to discover area for that following 50 GB update, or that following 148 GB game, you ought to buy some added storage space for your console. Below, we’ve assembled several of the very best extra storage space choices for your Xbox.

The ideal Xbox Series X SSD

Seagate Storage Expansion Card

One might claim that Microsoft is taking a traditional strategy with its formally qualified Seagate Storage Expansion Cards. They resemble sd card, as well as you stick one in the rear of the console. It’s also easier than opening a PS5 to mount an M.2 SSD.

Currently, this is the only SSD add-on for Series X that you can fill the current games from, as it matches the rate of the console’s integrated SSD. While having simply one choice makes it extremely simple to purchase a storage-boosting gizmo for your Xbox, the absence of competitors right here indicates that you’re mosting likely to pay considerably even more cash per gigabyte than PS5 proprietors provide for their PS5 SSD upgrades (the 1 TB add-on for Xbox internet you regarding 5 GB per buck invested versus 10 GB or even more per buck for PS5-ready SSDs). We dream we might recommend that you exchange your Xbox’s inner SSD, yet the second-rate realities are that doing so is both a difficult as well as warranty-voiding endeavor.

The Seagate development cards for Xbox are offered in 1 TB as well as 2 TB setups (a 512 GB design has actually been ceased). Prices beginning at $149.99 for the 1 TB design as well as they increase to around $280 for the top-end design. Both setups are offered at Amazon, Best Buy, Target, or GameStop.

WD_Black C50 Expansion Card

Western Digital has actually introduced its very own option to the Seagate storage space development card. The WD_Black C50 Expansion Card is offered in either 512 GB or 1 TB layouts at GameStop or Best Buy, which set you back $89.99 as well as $149.99, specifically. The C50 Expansion Card is practically similar to the variation made by Seagate, providing an affordable cost without jeopardizing efficiency. However, unlike the Seagate development card, the C50 isn’t presently offered in a 2 TB style. Now, allow’s see if the costs on these start to drop.

External Xbox hard disk drives

There are larger exterior hard disk drives that are considerably less costly than the main development cards. We’ve detailed 3 below, yet be advised: these can just be made use of to keep a Series X game’s setup data. If you intend to play a game that’s on the exterior hard disk, you will certainly need to move the data to the console’s inner SSD (Xbox One-period games can be both kept as well as played by means of the exterior drive).

Having some mass storage space reserved isn’t fairly as useful as broadening the console’s SSD storage space, yet moving a game’s data is still faster than needing to re-download them every single time you intend to boot a certain title.

WD_Black D30

The WD_Black D30 Game Drive is a stocky, exterior SSD offered in 500 GB, 1 TB, or 2 TB setups. The Game Drive gets in touch with its USB-C-to-A wire that supplies transfer rates of as much as 900 MB/s. The 1 TB D30 as well as 2 TB setups are offered for $116.99 (generally $149.99), as well as $199.99 (generally $239.99).

WD_Black D30 Game Drive

$110
$150
27% off

Prices taken sometimes of posting.

Maximum Read Speed: 900 MB/s

Maximum Write Speed: 900 MB/s

WD_Black P40

The WD_Black P40 Game Drive supplies a slimmer storage space option that’s a bit much more pricey, yet occupies much less area as well as can getting to transfer rates of as much as 2,000 MB/s. Best Buy presently has the 1 TB WD_Black P40 design offered for $119.99 (generally $179.99).