Seagate

The Seagate Expansion Card is the simplest way to expand the storage of your console. There's no setup or configuration required to use the card. Xbox Series X|S games can be massive. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 alone is 161GB, and that's without DLC. The Seagate Expansion Card delivers similar speeds to the native storage of the Xbox Series X|S, so you can store games on the card and play them without having to transfer files around. The Seagate Expansion Card also supports Quick Resume, which is a feature that lets you pause your game and power down your console and then pick up exactly where

The Seagate FireCuda X Vault 8TB, with its bus-powered USB-C design, is genuinely innovative, and it’s hard to see why this hasn’t been done before. It essentially makes the drive simpler with fewer cables, and while it's larger than a portable hard drive, it’s far cheaper for the capacity. After testing on a MacBook Pro M1 Max and an Asus PZ14, the single-drive design and ease of moving it around were obvious advantages over traditional desktop drives. While the performance was significantly slower than that of an SSD, it was consistent, especially for the capacity and price. In the benchmark

Though it’s the same basic size and weight as the aforementioned X Vault (approximately 7.35-inches long, 5.1-inches wide, 1.5-inches tall, and 2.5 pounds), the One Touch is styled differently. It’s two-tone dark gray and pewter, sporting the wavy sculpted lines you’ll find on some of the company’s 2.5-inch USB HDDs. Which look you prefer will depend on, well… which you prefer. I lean towards the One Touch. The One Touch features a single Type-C port on one end, that is offset to the left (when facing that end of the drive). Directly above it is a small power/activity light. That’s it. There’s

Only the 8TB version of the One Touch was available at the time of this writing. It’s priced $10 less than the X Vault at $260. As you’ll see from the extremely similar performance numbers below, I’m wondering why. Note that HDDs are mechanical and more prone to failure than SSDs. Because of that, I always run them in mirrored pairs if there’s anything important on them that’s otherwise not backed up. Of course, as the reviewer of the backup beat, mine aways are and yours should be too. In fact, I always back up my SSDs, as well. Too many reader horror stories, plus a few of my own (including