Unused Xbox Storage Expansion Cards work on PC through cheap PCIe adapter
Xbox Series X|S Storage Expansion Cards can be reused on PC with a standard CFexpress Type B adapter. A recent Reddit post shows a Seagate card detected as normal storage after being installed through a PCIe add-in adapter, giving owners a way to reuse the drive outside Microsoft’s console ecosystem.
Well, the Xbox storage cards were never cheap to begin with, but perhaps some users have already sold their consoles, and they kept the cards and have no practical use for them anymore. The only catch is that the card has to be reformatted first. The user behind the test said Windows could not read the contents written by the Xbox, so the existing data was wiped before the drive could be used on PC.
What makes the PC reuse possible is the physical interface. Xbox storage cards use CFexpress form factor, so it fits an off-the-shelf reader, even if standard CFexpress cards still cannot be used as direct Xbox replacements.
According to the user such card delivers around 1,117 MB/s read and 1,570 MB/s write from a 1TB card installed through PCIe adapter.
Users already used such adapters in 2021
This is also not the first time the Xbox expansion format has shown up in modding circles. We covered a similar case in 2021, when a modder used a CFexpress adapter and an Xbox SSD to build expandable storage for the console itself. The new twist is the reverse use case, turning an official Xbox card into PC storage instead of adapting PC storage for Xbox.
Source via Club386
