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The bottom is falling out of the SSD market. Gamers rejoice!
- Thread starter Meowmixez
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I like that I can move games between my consoles with it but it's something I know a lot of people aren't going to care about. They need to drop the Seagate exclusivity.
Yeah I got the expansion 1tb on sale and moving games is convenient but oof at the series s owners who have to make a decision to on these things.
Yep pretty much playing out like we said from the beginning. Off the shelf is always gonna be the best price/performance you can get out the gate and long term.
What does that remotely have to do with them saying it's expensive and rarely goes on sale?
Honestly, they've been using off the shelf for home consoles since it became available for home consoles: PS2, PS3, PS4.
Handhelds is where they dropped the ball.
I thought adding 1TB was gonna be enough, but nope. I now have a 2TB, with 1.3TB used up so far. Some I can delete....relatives downloaded games I dont normally play anymore.
You are drinking the kool aid way too much. Racking up points is not a viable thing for a majority of people.
WTF are you even on about? He asked about pricing for Xbox hard drives. Those obviously won't fall given they're proprietary, but there's alternatives some people don't know about. I shared one. Get a grip.
I don't know what directstorage is but doesn't the Ps5 expansion only support gen3?
They asked if it ever went on sale. That is not remotely a viable way to do for the general public. Honestly it's such a ridiculous premise I'm shocked anyone would suggest that as "viable".
Was there any information in your original reply about how it was a viable alternative besides saying "got mine"?
I'm the general public. MS Rewards is open to the general public. There's a whole thread on era, Reddit, etc where people discuss all the things they get cheap or free, including consoles because of how viable MSRewards is for them. It beats paying MS' stupid pricing.
aren't those relegated to the U.2 format?
EDIT: oh wow there are M.2 that go up to 8TB lmao
I managed to get a 4TB U.2 for like $300 so I'll stick with that for a while for my not-as-speed dependent storage
Yeah it's great. All of my machines (PCs, Consoles, Home Automation Server) are fully SSD now. The only thing that isn't is my media server, since HDDs are better suited for that. But if it ever becomes financially/technically feasible to switch over from HDD to SSD on a server I'd likely do so just for the energy savings.
lol, its just about the convenience of not having to redownload games. Especially when friends, family come over and wanna play something I usually dont have installed.
Exactly.
I have MS points...and have no idea how many I have or what I can get. I dont do enough to even stack MS points on a regular basis.
Oh shit, this is good to know. Upgrading my MoBo soon and going to replace my SATA data drive SSD with an NVME drive
That's what I use cold storage for!=p But yeah that does make sense for what you do which is cool.
Yeah I have a 500GB Nvme but it's for the other PC and would want either a 1TB or 2TB Gen 3 Nvme. I honestly wonder if Gen 4 will even be worth it over Gen 3 because if it's just a few seconds I would just stick with Gen 3.
got mine off eBay for $140 unopened. gotta go that route if you want a deal. I've seen cheaper on there.
Another viable alternative with MS hardware is to buy MS credit when it's 20 percent off. 20 percent isn't a huge savings, but it beats MSRP. Combine it with credit accrued via Rewards and now we're talking big savings for little effort. Allowing store credit to be spent on hardware was a nice change. Apple did the same and it makes a big difference buying their stuff as well.
MS knocked it out of the park with their Series hardware, with the glaring exception of their storage expansion. It was always doomed to be expensive and not track with regular SSD prices as it was proprietary.
When I was struggling to find an XSX in stock early last year, I was so close to getting a Series S instead. Until I saw the price of the MS storage cards. Series S + 1TB was the same price as XSX. Nuts.
When I was struggling to find an XSX in stock early last year, I was so close to getting a Series S instead. Until I saw the price of the MS storage cards. Series S + 1TB was the same price as XSX. Nuts.
I've started trying to gather rewards points again and the Bing search bar is driving me crazy. It just keeps randomly unfocusing as I am typing. It even loses focus depending on how I highlight text on the text input with my mouse.
I just use Edge. Ends up being an easy 20k to 30k points a month.
I just bought a 1TB 980 for about $98, which I thought was a pretty good price. I remember when the price was much higher a year or so ago. Had I seen the pro, I might have opted for it if it works with my new laptop. But I think I'll be cool with the regular 980.
There's nothing stopping Microsoft from lowering their prices or putting them on sale. Except wanting a bunch of profits from it anyway.
Is the new sk Hynix the fastest ssd im eyeing it to use on my first ever pc build till 4tb drops in price then I will replace it and put the 2tb in my ps5
Yeah, the MS prices are BS especially after "seagate won't be the only ones selling them" which had yet to happen.
Its damn near the best at the moment, when it comes to ssds the difference between write speeds between two drives doesn't always tell the full picture even though its usually the thing most advertised because its the largest number, you want to look at read speeds and even more importantly random read and write iops, as I understand it, games and even general daily computing for the average user is more about how fast a drive handles lots of small files at once and sustained and iops are the best gauge we have as buyers to understanding which drive is faster.
For example the newest sk hynix drives do 1.4 million random iops and the 980 pros do 1 million, so while both are fast as shit if you really want the best then right now not many products are topping that 1.4.
All that crap said, im not Anandtech, always look at drive reviews done by pros.
And, y'know, Xbox 360 hard drives. They're the main reason I never trusted the stuff about how they were totally going to have different manufacturing partners and also totally going to drop in price just as much as third-party SSDs.
Sony's system isn't perfect though - one thing I'd actually love to see them add is a feature where, if an SSD doesn't pass muster for playing PS5 games on directly, you can use it as cold storage for PS5 games and play PS4 games off it. Same functions as an external. Some people actually already buy external SSDs for that, and this solution would be cheaper, faster and wouldn't take up a USB port.
How are they as a company? Easy to work with if there are issues? Are there any lottery issues with quality?
The problem is since this is a proprietary format, more manufacturers does not guarantee any form of price drop even with different brands.