Seagate’s new portable Xbox One SSD promises faster game load times

Seagate’s new portable Xbox One SSD promises faster game load times

By Joe Osborne

You know we live in the modern gaming era when one of our chief concerns is how fast a game loads from the console’s sluggish spinning hard drive.

Seagate wants to help you out with a brand new, faster Game Drive. Well, at least if you own an Xbox One or the brand new Xbox One S.

The storied storage firm has announced a 512GB, solid-state (SSD) version of its Game Drive product, simply known as the Game Drive for Xbox SSD, for $199 (about £162, AU$260) on Amazon, GameStop and other online stores.

And, apparently, the thing is meeting rabid demand, as it’s already out of stock on Amazon as of this writing. (Of course, you can still order one for when it does get restocked.)

Why are people seemingly foaming at the mouth over this slick, stylish aluminum SSD?

All the benefit without any of the hassle

For one, most gamers never bother to upgrade the storage within their system of choice because – no matter how easy it might be – opening a console yourself generally tends to void its warranty.

Secondly, most supplemental console hard drives worth their salt require their own power source to …read more

Source:: techradar.com – Computing Components

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