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| [* black] Next, the meat of this board sandwich—the aluminum center chassis. | |
| - | [* black] Its main purpose is to soak up High-Performance Gaming Heat™ (hence the thermal compound for the SSD and storage expansion slot). |
| + | [* black] Its main purpose is to soak up High-Performance Gaming Heat™ (hence the bright blue thermal compound for the SSD and storage expansion slot). |
| [* black] Speaking of storage: the Series X uses an m.2 2230 NVMe SSD, namely a custom 1 TB SN530 by Western Digital. We [https://www.tweaktown.com/news/76132/xbox-series-xs-wd-sn530-ssd-has-custom-asic-to-support-pcie-4-0/index.html|heard it's super-fast PCIe Gen 4.0|new_window=true], too—this is high-end stuff! | |
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| + | [* icon_reminder] Its nice to see Microsoft using a replaceable drive here, even if software barriers prevent ''you'' from doing the replacing. |
| [* black] Let's take a closer look at the bits that give this SSD its oomph (ignoring a [https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/nGmJsRGwXYTDLVpJ.full|pretty boring back side|new_window=true]): | |
| [* red] SanDisk 606621T00 NAND storage | |
| [* orange] SanDisk 20-82-10048-A1 controller |