Xbox Series X 2tb 6.5Gbps vs 1tb 1.5Gbps expansion card write speed. 1tb card is a launch model.

Xbox dropped the ball on their SSD solution.

Great video, thank you. I know what I will be buying

The 1TB card also does 6.5Gbps transfer speeds. I have one and have tried it out. Just transfered Watch Dogs Legion and it was hitting consistently from 6.28-6.32 Gbps.

Thanks for tipping me off to the speed diff between 1 and 2 tb card. Totally accurate as far as I’ve been able to tell. Super glad I went for the bigger, faster one!

Thanks for such a wonderful pice of information, I already ordered mine, 👍

Can you do this test with 512gb ssd ??? Thanks

I managed to pick one up. As much as it says 6gbps it’s doing more like the full 2GBps. It’s definitely better drive than the 1TB.

I bought a new 1tb ssd … The write speed is the same as 2tb… 6.5 …. Excelent 👍🏻

I just got the 2tb so I'm transferring everything off my 1tb to the internal the speeds are pretty good. From my 1tb to internal I get 3.95-4.05Gbps from internal to 2tb I get 6.38Gbs it was much easier and faster this way then re-downloading the games. I just wish there were 2 expansion card ports.
For £377 it was worth the price.
Peace!

I aploud your work

I’ve had as high as 3.0 Gbps transfer rates stated, but as it’s transferring, the visual number doesn’t correlate to the actual being transferred. At the speed stated, a 3 Gbps rate on a game that’s 30 GB should take 10 seconds. Yet it takes up to 5 minutes sometimes. I’m so tired of moving games back and forth. I also have a 4TB external drive for all older generation games, but even that’s getting full.

What's up Andrew. That's weird because my Samsung 2 terabyte external SSD transfers between 2.3 and 2.4 GB's

Interesting test 👍 but i copy dara testrday on my 1tb and it also goes close do 6gbps 🤔 firmware update or what?

I'm sold and I'm buying the 2tb thanks for the differents bro

Thanks for the info on this. A lot of things the box and adverts don’t tell you. Can finally have the chance to get a Series X again in NZ before the scalpers. The 2TB looks like the way to go although it costs the same as a Series X console itself here. 🙃 Yikes.

1.5 gigabits per second, not gigabytes per second (which would be 8x faster). In other words, It’s slow af. Thanks for pointing this out. I thought there was an issue with my card.

Glad I ponied up the cash for the 2TB! I didn't even know it was faster

Its an amazing result, but unless it comes with a 200$ hooker im not even considering spending 400$ on just a memory card, no matter how great it is. This is microsoft, i expect affordable quality. This is basically saying its okay to raise the price for a console up to pc price, not gonna happen. For 900$ per console at that point im better off spending an extra couple hundred bying a gaming pc thats just as fast and includes more storage. Rule nr 1 in life is to first look at cost, than the product, otherwise where does it end? At least thats my opinion..

Yup ok thats worth the Price… Been looking into this card too. I still have my 1TB version man saves me so much time looking at my screen 🤣

Brother, you’re just like me, When I discuss Storage I say Gigabytes per second, when I discuss Internet I say Gigabits per second. 😎

Nice but now try alot bigger that 20gb games. Do call of duty games that are like 50gb and alot higher.

And 512GB SSD Seagate, 1.5 Gbps or 6.5Gbps?

Lol, everyone who bought the 2gb are excited they payed well near the series x's price tag... 🤣 Guess it eases the pain. 😆

Right now as of july 2022 even the 1tb variant has a transfer speed of 6.5 gbps.

The price of the 2tb ones more than the Xbox series S lol you can get it with a couple of games for that card maybe even more games

This is very interesting. Those copy speeds are still very bad for pcie gen 4 because those copy speeds are gbps not GBps. However, you probably won't see a difference in game performance since the read speed is what matters when they finally use direct storage to pull data from the drive directly into memory.

When I first bought it, it was 5.6 Gbps, but when I transferred it yesterday, it only came out 1.4 Gbps.
Is it degradation or specification?

Larger SSDs are faster in general. You wouldn't even need a test to know this would happen. Nothing to do with new controllers or manufacturing dates. Lots of misinformation in the comments not knowing some basics about SSDs.

Hi. There are some weird things happening here. Could you format both expansion cards and then try again?

How wtf you download games at 1gbps wtfff i have series s and download at 300-600mbps

It's all about luck i got 2x 1TB cards one sinds launch and 1 i bought 2 weekes ago and they both have about the same speed, 1.4-1.5 Gbps!

It also depends how much storage is available and how much data you transfer at once, if you do 20 or 30gb it goes fast at about 5.5-6.5 Gbps! But try a game like CoD cold war that is around 200gb or more than it goes straight down to 1.5 Gbps Max! It depends on luck in the way how it handles the card and how hot the cards get they heat up very fast, point 2 is the big factor and that's how big is the data package because the cards are getting to hot and than the Xbox protects them from overheating! 👍👊

so seagate is using slow nvme for the base model.... what a surprice.. 😂😂😂

2TB is only worth buying, i have Kingston SX2000 1TB External SSD for 160$ transfer speed 2.8Gbps, but its not consistent everytime. Thanks for the video man

Wow I had no idea the 2tb is faster. I actually thought they would all have the same speeds

What i like on the SeX/ SS Box is the fact, you can actually connect 2 8TB HDDs simultaneously!! 1 TB internal SSD is too small, we all can agree on that. The 1 TB external storage is just prolonging the invatable for some months. 2 TB is a beginning max. A 4 TB external storage would be great. 8 TB would be killer!! But i would be satisfied with 4 TB! You think they do one?😊

Speed will fluctuate with temp of the memory controller

My Crucial X6 USB has write speeds between 1.9~2.6 Gbps, yet that's not enough for a demanding game like Among Us.

Not sure how I missed this video.

Possibly because I bought a 1 TB just about a month after the console release. A 2 TB just wasn’t in the budget. And this would’ve pissed me off. Making us pay $220, then coming out with a 2 TB card that runs at 6 Gbps! 😠

it is still based on ms servers

Amazon had the Seagate 2TB card on sale today for $229. I ordered it and now the price went back up to $279.

The Xbox One wish it could do that😅

Did you do a PlayStation version of this video?

Did the 2tb load up games faster than the 1tb other than just transferring faster?

Wait what!? 6.5gbs transfer speed!?

It looks like WD's 1tb expansion card is faster than seagate's 1tb card because I just tested mine and got an average speed of 5.5Gb/s. (FYI the only card I tested was the wd 1tb because I don't have the wd 2tb card.)

Isn't it a possibility there's more data compression at certain parts of the game while transferring the data

Hello and Greetings from Germany.
Yesterday, I bought the Western Digital C50 1 TB Card.
U Can Move File with 6-7 GBs.

Thank U for Your Video.

I bought Wd c50 1tb and transfer speed 5-5.5 gbps. Which means 600-700mb per second. Still slow. Better than hdd...