Director of Program Management, Jason Ronald has spoken with Xbox Wire regarding the portable NVME Storage Expansion Cards that will be usable with both the Series X and Series S. Aside from confirming how easy the cards will be to use (simply plug it into the expansion slot on the back of the console.), he goes into great detail about why and how the SSDs were necessary to deliver the smoothest and fastest data transfer solutions possible.
Bring the games you love and your trusty external drive with you into next-gen.
For Xbox Series X|S optimized games, we’ve partnered with @Seagate to deliver the same speed and performance of the new consoles in a custom storage expansion card.
Details: https://t.co/979yxlnx95 pic.twitter.com/XLJEnQvdc1
— Xbox (@Xbox) September 24, 2020
Of very important note is the reaffirmation that you can still use your existing USB HDDs, up to 3.1, to play your existing library of games as well as to swap Series X/S specific games to and from internal or expanded memory. It’s just another quality of life that continues to drive home Xbox’s Generational focus, something that long time fans will greatly appreciate.
It was also discovered that the Expanded 1TB drives will run a pretty $219.99 USD. Pretty hefty, but to no one’s surprise. NVME drives are still fairly expensive, but will slowly drop in the future. Check the attached Twitter post for more details!