Pros & Cons
Pros
It works with the wdc 530 512gb and 1tb. Comes with a mini phillips screw driver and two thermal pads. The thicker one was used on the top lay where the nand flash and controller are mounted.
Highlights
Quality
The quality of this specific part itself i feel is very good
The quality is actually very high it slid into my series x without any issues
Update 6122022it works with the wdc 530 512gb and 1tb
Competitiveness
The ssd was first confirm in a working condition by connecting it to a win10 system
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Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
As for what it does yes it does work however i see people trying to use the wrong hard drive
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
This requires the ch sn530 not the pc sn530
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The drives are different and based on what ive been told the xbox refuses to acknowledge it
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
I tried one with mbr partition using disk genius and the other i made gpt with diskpart then made a normal ntfs partition using windows disk management tool
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Took less than 10 seconds for the prompt to appear
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
Just delete the partitions and make a new gpt or mbr ntfs partition with 4096 sector size and you should be good to go
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
The steps to make it work1 format the ssd under win10 to the gpt format2 mount the ssd to the adapter3 plugged into the xbox expansion slot4 xbox will say the expansion storage is not valid this is ok5 unmount the ssd from the adapter and mount to a nvmetousb adapter6 plugged it into the xbox usb plug7 xbox should say a new usb storage is detected8 format it9 unmount the ssd from nvmetousb adapter and mount to adapter10 plugged it into the expansion slot11 xbox should now detect it successfullyoriginalthe ssd used was a wdc 530 with the 4096 sector size
Posted by a reviewer on Amazon
There are some that are floating around that uses the 512 sector dont know if it will work