Related Story Microsoft Brings Xbox and ZeniMax Closer Together, Reorganizes Leadership (Sarah Bond Now in Charge of Xbox) The Xbox SSDs are all PCIe 4.0x2 so you need WD CH (NOT PC) SN530/SN560 or SSSDTC/Lite-On XA1 SSDs. I thought there was some year long deal Seagate had and MS hinted more makers would come. I was thinking a flood of third party options would pop up driving down the price. Never happened.

Western Digital PC SN530 NVMe SSD Support Information

Using PCIe Gen 3x4, the IX SN530 delivers incredible speeds to meet the growing performance requirements of Industrial IoT systems. With sequential read speeds of up to 2,400 MB/s and write speeds of up to 1,950 MB/s, the IX SN530 matches its toughness with speed. Test Conditions: Performance is Need Measured by CrystalDiskMark 5.2.1 using 1000MB LBA range ASUS G752VSK . Windows 10 Pro 64-bit using Microsoft StorNVMe driver, Primary drive. Performance may vary based on host device. 1 MB = 1,000,000 bytes. IOPS = input/output operations per second. The issue I want to find out is which sector allocation value is required -> leads into the theoretical max storage of a single internal SSD (around 16TB assuming a 4KB sector size). https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows... Test Conditions: Performance is measured by CrystalDiskMark 6.0.0, using 1000MB LBA range as a secondary drive in desktop with Intel® Core™ i7 7700 CPU, 8GB RAM. OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 20H1 19041.208 with Microsoft StorNVMe driver. Sequential read performance refers for both bursThe external SSD cards are awesome in terms of plug in ease and knowing it all works........ but the price is god awful atrocious. No thanks. sycoreaper said:You clearly didn't read the entire article.In the link to the original article it shows a longer adaptor that accommodates longer M.2 cards.

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Test Conditions: Performance is measured by CrystalDiskMark 6.0.0, using 1000MB LBA range as a secondary drive in desktop with Intel® Core™ i7 7700 CPU, 8GB RAM. OS: Windows 10 Pro 64-bit 20H1 19041.208 with Microsoft StorNVMe driver. Sequential read performance refers for both burst and sustained specifications. The adapter board is limited to Read speeds of up to 1700 MB/s and Write speeds of up to 1480 MB/s so it's pointless to invest in a high-end SSD. This is due to the CFE card cutting down the lanes in half from x4 to x2. Welcome to r/XboxSupport, a peer-to-peer based community dedicated to helping users troubleshoot their hardware and software-related Xbox platform issues. This includes compatibility, setup, purchasing help (what to buy), and all related topics. The capacities are based on IDEMA HDD Specification. See www.idema.org for details. 1 gigabyte (GB) = 1 billion bytes ; 1 terabyte (TB) = 1 trillion bytes ; 2TB is supported by M.2 2280 form factor only.So the modder went to work and installed a custom CFExpress card that supports PCIe 4.0 speeds and paired it with the internal SSD of the Xbox Series consoles, the CH SN530 M.2 2230. This SSD is an OEM, PCIe 4 x2 drive that perfectly meets the requirements of the expansion slot. A PCIe 4.0 X2 NVMe hard drive. I chose the CH SN530 m.2 2230 which was disassembled by XSX (note that it is not PC SN530, PC SN530 is PCIe3.0 ). This hard drive is an original hard drive built into XSX. If XSS needs to be disassembled and expanded, this hard drive can be said to be a must.

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MTTF = Mean Time To Failure based on internal testing using Telcordia stress part testing. MTTF is based on a sample population and is estimated by statistical measurements and acceleration algorithms. MTTF does not predict an individual drive’s reliability and does not constitute a warranty. (Telecordia SR-332, GB, 40°C). Despite this modder's success, this mod would be very difficult to duplicate with other hardware. The PCIe Gen 4 requirements are completely proprietary to Microsoft and its Xbox Series consoles since the official CFexpress standard only supports PCIe Gen 3 speeds or slower. Also, finding a PCIe Gen 4 drive with just two lanes is nearly impossible.PCI Express 3.0 up to four lanes, and a bit rate of 2.5Gbps or 5Gbps or 8Gbps. Configurable lane width: x1, x2 and x4. NVM Express version 1.4. Interesting. He says these are "Xbox pulls" though. That can't be right. Internal Xbox SSD are PCIe 4.0 x2. Where is this being "pulled" from? The Western Digital PC SN530 NVMe ™ SSD is designed for a multitude of applications that require both high performance and low power. The device is not only capable of more than three times the read speed over SATA SSDs, but further optimizes the low power consumption level to a mere 5mW.