A Grumpy OAP
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I won't be playing/storing any BC games on the XSX. So the posts by both Chalky and rowedav have made my mind up to get the Seagate - or later models that utilise the Velocity Architecture.
According to Jason Ronald on the major Nelson podcast this card is just the first, they are planning bigger and smaller capacities and other OEMs. I'd say this bodes well for us if it's true meaning we will have access to various sizes and hopefully some OEM rivalry will keep prices competitive with each other. Again if true this is only a good thing for consumers and hopefully will mean the ps5 using of the shelf storage may may not be too different in price, once those high spec drives see a reduction in price the Xbox cards should really follow suit.
So I have a question.
Having watched this ...
I need to get myself an external ssd drive for forthcoming series x
I don’t need anymore than 1tb really, based on the games I have and it’s only going to be used for non series x titles
So, can anyone suggest a good all in one external ssd ? Or a bare bones drive along with caddy and cable ?
Cheers.
So I have a question.
Having watched this ...
I need to get myself an external ssd drive for forthcoming series x
I don’t need anymore than 1tb really, based on the games I have and it’s only going to be used for non series x titles
So, can anyone suggest a good all in one external ssd ? Or a bare bones drive along with caddy and cable ?
Cheers.
I was gonna buy an external and the adaptor but I think I may as well just put the money towards the first party one.
I did think that but, for non series x games which I’m sure playing for some time yet around 100 quid compared to over 200 isn’t too bad
and I’d guess by time we fill the internal with series x stuff the expandable will drop in price
mind I am very lucky to have almost 400mb download speed
What we don't yet know though is how many Xbox one games will be patched to make better use of the new consoles and what those patches may be. Those patches might just be unlock frame rates or dynamic resolution scaling to use the extra power, but they may also see changes to tap in to the velocity Architecture. If they do this you'll have to install to the internal/expansion drives to use that update. I'm not a game designer but I'd think recoding to use a greater memory bandwidth would be a bit more hands on than removing frame rate or resolution limiters, just sounds like something that would require significant rewrites instead of a quick patch.Isn’t it the case though, as the video shows that older, non series x games don’t make use of the new architecture around the faster internal and expansion drives utilise ?
What we don't yet know though is how many Xbox one games will be patched to make better use of the new consoles and what those patches may be. Those patches might just be unlock frame rates or dynamic resolution scaling to use the extra power, but they may also see changes to tap in to the velocity Architecture. If they do this you'll have to install to the internal/expansion drives to use that update. I'm not a game designer but I'd think recoding to use a greater memory bandwidth would be a bit more hands on than removing frame rate or resolution limiters, just sounds like something that would require significant rewrites instead of a quick patch.
Did you miss my recommendation of that drive above? or were you looking for additional confirmation that I wasn’t talking out my rear
oh god yeah. Sorry
Didn’t see a link on phone but now on iPad I do. Sorry mate. Truly. Sorry. Wasn’t second guessing
Yep the T7 is overkill for the Series X from what I’ve read.