Xbox Series S Tear Down - Heatsink Removal AND SSD Too
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- čas přidán 9. 11. 2020
- Tearing down the Xbox Series S to see what all is under the hood, not to mention we got a good look at the SSD too!
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SSD inside is the Western Digital WD Blue SN530
Gameplay on the Series S
AC:Valhalla - czcams.com/video/ZdlLjp-6iGk/video.html
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Fortnite - czcams.com/video/NYlrAayNhVk/video.html
From the official website the SSD has Sequential Read/Write Up to 2,400/1,750 MB/s , Interface
PCIe Gen3 x4 NVMe v1.4 and Endurance 300 TBW. On Amazon the price of the higher version SN550 but 2280 is 54$ for 500GB and 95$ for 1TB.
@@Alexandru_T according to wd this has a custom asic on it to support the required pcie gen 4 x2 connection.
With a bit of modding you could probably stick a normal 2280 m.2 in there.
@@EDIIIZ no modding needed, it would just run at gen 3 speeds.
@@hoodman420 you probably need to mod the shroud since 2280 m.2 would not fit.
The real challenge is to put everything back on and see if it still works.
It works lol
@@WccftechTv Proud of you
Can u change the ssd tho??
Do you know if you can swap the hardrive for a bigger one ? and are you going to try at all in the future ?
Hey I know it's been 5 months but do you happen to know if the xclamp is the same size as the one used in previous xboxes? Like the one s and one x
Have you ever tried to clone the drive and swap it out with another
Thanks for the video brother just following up. Were you ever able to experiment with a bigger SSD internal drive and got it working or if you had to do any weird sketchy hacks ?
thanks man keep it up.
it looks like that SSD is the same size as a wifi card, I wonder if it would be hard to get one of those adapters that let you put a full size NVMe drive in a laptop to work with the Series S or X
What partitions are on it? And which partition is dedicated to game library?
It reminds me Tronics Fix. I have Watched his video about Console's teardown
And now, I'm watching teardown, in your Channel
You just makes me Remember TronicsFix😂
Can you upgrade the ssd? I want one but don’t know if it’s possible
Can you upgrade the storage size ???
Even if can't upgrade the SSD can we clone it
Have they released the System Firmware for the Xbox Series X/S? If they did I wonder if we can buy a bigger capacity M2 Drive and just throw the Firmware on it.
Ix sn530 is the 1tb version of that way same size chip as well
So you can chance the ssd???
nobody:
tech geeks when a new device comes out: HULK SMASH!
did you ever end up upgrading the sdd??
Where is the rest
Interesting - looks like the m.2 is a 2220 judging by the compact size it is.
My own personal Series S gets VERY hot around the black vent on the top of the unit. Is this normal or is it something that I should get checked out?
No mine does/everyone's, lol u can actually smell it plasticky case when you put ur nose to it lol 🤣 I'm crazy, but yeh it's Normal because the Heatsink is right underneath that fan if u feel the edges you'll feel cool air so it's working as intended. ✔
Did you or did you not upgrade it
Thanks man. I was planinng to OPEN and use the ssd to my laptop. But it’s totally different thing inside there 🤣
Hey it works lol I got a sweet electronics tool kit at Walmart for $14 so yeah definitely get and use whatever gets the job done
Believe it or not. August 2021 series S and on don’t have the RAM shield anymore. It’s open. I changed my paste that’s how I know.
Thanks for satisfying my curiosity!!
Was there any cooling to the SSD drive? I know my external SSD drive for PC get so damn hot and was curious. Thanks for the vid btw
It has a thermal goomy pad against the motherboard backplate.
I thought we were getting a die shot, ooh well 😔
Does the European console works fine in America as well?? I wonder because it seems that power supply is universal looking at the input voltage.
It's universal, no problem using it worldwide.
Honestly for 300 bucks this thing is a steal.. i'm guessing the bulk of the money will be coming from the gaming subscription format.. i wouldn't be surprised if they made zero money from this system.
Ps3 and xbox 360 were sold at a loss for the first year
It's pretty well known by now that the consoles are always sold at a loss/very little profit... They make the money back on licensing and accessories like headsets, controllers, external hdd's, etc.
Too good
Keep it up ❤
awesome, thanks for the tear down, now that I know it is very possible to upgrade the internal ssd I will get myself a series s because there is just no stock of series x. I have replaced the internal disk in my xbox one x with a sshd and it worked great. BTW, you cannot clone the disk.
The only thing that is missing from this video is you removing the thermal paste and showing the die itself.
It looks like a cross between a Nintendo Wii and an old school radio...
The SOC is really small. Compared to the PS5/Series X, I think it means the graphics portion take the most real state.
It is. Most space is cache + GPU . Look at official die shots from hotchips for more detail
I find it cute and compact !
Would want to know what that 1 chip is on the back. Also how many memory chips are under the shroud?
That alone chip is 2GB of DDR3 memory, is the slower pool of RAM memory for OS, apps and multitasking.
On the other side are 4 GDDR6 chips being 8GB total, which makes the total system RAM 10GB.
The overpriced and entirely unnecessary proprietary storage options that so many manufacturers use these days make me damned mad to be honest.
Great video
I wonder what kind of deal Western Digital had with Microsoft. I wonder what kind of discount they got.
I also wonder what wholesale bulk discount pricing runs.
Is that pcie gen 3 or 4?
The SSD is gen 3 C.F.
The SSD controller is gen 4
So...did you plug the ssd into a PC????
you should read the comments
Can you replace the internal SSD with more storage?
No, you can only replace it with a 16gb ssd at most
@@twizz420 No one has really tried ? I cant find anyone who has. But, I have taken my broken xbox series S and took the ssd out and put it in my laptop...works great after formatting it.
I ordered this and will see if it works after cloning my current Xbox series s NVMe to this one I ordered yesterday. I am going to clone it and theoretically it will work unless the software/hardware is designed to reject anything higher than 500gb?
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Only way I get a hard drive for my series S is if it goes on sale for 200$ and then I buy a gift card with 200$ value for 150$ lol. Not paying 300$ that's insane!
I can only store Warzone and NBA2k21 on my internal : / But I use Adata too I've got a 1TB that has 15 games on it!
Great video Keith, thanks!
im gonna buy this if it can run windows. 😬
An brazilian CZcamsr (Rato Borrachudo) did the world's first teardown of the Series X and Series S, but you guys went the extra mile to remove the heatsink! =)
Cool teardown, did you try another SSD in there?
I didn’t. But I did plug that one into my PC, some interesting security features keeps it from being a simple clone project to a bigger SSD, and the market for 3022 size drives is quite small atm
@@WccftechTv yeah, real shame they chose that size, there was easily room for a much more common size. I know they want to make money from that external drive but still would have been nice.
@@WccftechTv On the Xbox One you could perform an offline system update after replacing the drive to install the operating system, maybe you can do the same method here and not even need to clone it.
@@toastyjacks if it works the same as xbox one x, which I think it might, then you cannot clone the drive, it has to be setup a specific way, I did this with my xbox one x by replacing the drive with a 1tb sshd, which worked great, I am planning to do this with my series s also
Wow. That SSD comes out easily, I guess the only thing stopping you from upgrading it is that there’s nowhere to download the OS to put on the new drive, so you’d be left with a brick essentially?
Damn so I wouldn’t be able to buy a better one ? With more memory
disk cloning software
So that tiny chip is 8-core zen with 2080ti level graphics?
The series s is more like a RTX 2060.
@@EDIIIZ Now I realized this is not Series X, stupid me.
The Series S has a Xbox One X APU in it. Could be modified to remove the GPU component.
They probably slapped on a cheap GPU to work alongside it or something since the Xbox One X's APU is still severely limiting.
@@dra6o0n incorrect. Its using a 8Core Zen 2 CPU with a 20CU RDNA 2.0 GPU.
Would it have killed them to use an m2 80mm instead of a 30mm? its not like they couldnt fit it in there... owell beggars cant be choosers.
It looks like an oversized Raspberry Pi
The SSD is supposedly PCIe 3.0
so will game load time be different between series x and s for games since it has slower ssd? or will it be same and gen 3 ssd speed will be kept in mind for next gen game development?
@@MazharMalim Both consoles uses an internal PCIe 3.0 SSD, so there will be no problem, the speeds will work as advertised (2.4 / 4.8 gb/s)
Although the console itself is PCIe 4.0, and the expandable 1TB seagate memory card is actually 4.0.
It seems the motherboard supports up to PCIe 4.0, but they chose to use an internal PCIe 3.0 ssd.
@@matrix9452 Oh ok didn't know that, was curious because actually i'm trying to buy storage for my new pc and gen 4 ssds are quite expensive where i live. Will it be alright to get gen 3 ssd for newer games?
@@MazharMalim Nowadays the difference is pretty small between gen 4 and gen 3 in pratical terms because the PC isn't very optimized to take full advantage of these SSD's.
But with Microsoft Direct Storage API arriving next year, you would be more future-proofed with Gen 4.
I recommend using an smaller PCIe SSD for your system and next gen games you're playing at the moment, while you can use an larger SATA SSD to store your files, current gen games and on.
But will take a while before games fully utilize even PCIe SSD, because most games are still being made to run on Xbox One and PS4 and old PC, so you will be good with any SSD for quite some time, at least an year or two, before any game requires gen 4 speeds.
So I would recommend waiting for price drops, there is no actual need to use an PCIe SSD right now. Gen 4 SSD is relatively new, Intel don't even support it on their processors yet.
@@matrix9452 Sequential Read/Write
Up to 2,400/1,750 MB/s
Great affordable console
"there's no warranty stickers, and I like that"
As he's removing the warranty stickers lololol
You've never been able to Upgrade internal Xbox drives, you have to buy their external proprietary drives from Xbox or segate for £250 or Dollars
Sony has always let you download system software from their website for internal drive Upgrading, since PS3 days, and even now, for ps5 you can buy ANY 3rd party NVME and put it int he expansion bay
First
and only!
Can Microsoft sue for this ? I don't
think its a good idea
Sue for what?
@@WccftechTv Opening the thing apart ! Did you replace all the paste when putting it back up ?
@@mprbusiness of course, cleaned it all up and repasted with Arctic MX-4
Wow there is really some idiotic and ignorant people like you that believe "big company" can sue just because of a tear down!!!
@@J0derVIVIVI Read chapter 2 dumbass en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Product_teardown
After watching this and seeing what's inside a console, I personally believe they really are stupid and just a money grubbing ploy and can't believe people waste their money on these when you could buy a laptop or desktop.
Show me a PC with this performance for 299 USD
@@LiquidSpartan117 Consoles aren't aren't 299 when they first release.
@@makegaminggreatagain3907 that's the price and what I paid. 299 USD is the price of Xbox Series S
Show me one PC that gets near this performance for that price
@@LiquidSpartan117 You played 299 USD for a brand new Xbox Seriers S when the first released? I doubt it!
@@makegaminggreatagain3907 I doubt you have a brain, but here we are. Still waiting for that 299 PC with similar performance.