Microsoft went with a proprietary storage system for the the Series X/S's. I you can't play games their non proprietary storage, and I'm not sure if you can even store a local copy of a USB drive.
it’s a similar deal for X/S as for PS5. If a game needs the Velocity Architecture, it has to be on the internal SSD or Seagate storage expansion. Likewise, PS5 games can currently only run off PS5’s internal SSD. Both platforms can run older software (and in Xbox’s case, newer apps that don’t use Velocity) off an external drive like those in the story.
It is not proprietary it is currently exclusive deal with Microsoft. Don't be surprised to see a Western Digital or Sandisk SDD card, by this fall.
800,000x the storage and 400x the speed, in a portable device 1/230th the size, for 1/13th the price (adjusted for inflation). I did the math.I laugh when people complain about $750 for a 4TB drive when in 1982 a 5mb Apple profile hard drive was $4000 or $6000 for the first IBM PC's Full size drive in 1982
Because they require fast load speeds and games require fast random access. So much so that new consoles won't even support non-NVME drives and fully don't support USB-C – either to sell their own drives, or because it simply isn't fast enough.
Really? I bought some Crucial 2TB internal SSDs in 2019 for about £200 each and they are still priced about the same today. 4TB versions are still around £400-£500. Prices have barely moved in nearly 2 years.
Yep - basic flattery of the end user - look at any Apple Keynote - You too can be a "beautiful person" as opposed to someone who uses Apple Pay to order a KFC bucket of chicken!
Make it 10G ethernet. I'd also say HDMI 2.1, but looks like its bit rate (48 Gbps) is higher than TB3's (40).
Ok, assuming price scales linearly with each of these factors, then the price today is around 9.56*10^11 times cheaper, or in words 956 billion times cheaper. Thats the result of exponential growth.
It should work after reformatting. Most come as NTFS or exFAT and Time Machine needs Mac OS Extended (Journaled) or now APFS for Big Sur. That said, a SSD for backup is a bit overkill unless you really value silent operations. A plain old spinning drive or a pair of them is far more cost effective. Redundancy is good and Time Machine can alternate between two destinations.
Ah but do you know someone who actually paid that? I came close but a little later. 20 MB for an external HDD for $890 for my Mac Plus equivalent original Mac 128K.