Amazon has knocked 44% off the 2TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S consoles, now only $200 shipped. With games like Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 taking up over 100GB of space, you might soon find yourself uninstalling games to create space on your console, even if you have the new 2TB Galaxy Black Special Edition Xbox. This SSD not only adds a whopping 2TB of storage, but also offers similar performance to the internal drives on the latest Xbox consoles, ensuring you don’t sacrifice any performance.
Unlike the PS5, Xbox Series X and S owners cannot use standard M.2 drives to expand the storage capacity in their consoles. The new Xbox consoles use a proprietary storage slot to ensure consistent performance across games and internal storage. Right now, the only compatible expansion cards are the Seagate and WD_Black C50 Expansion Cards. Compared to regular M.2 drives, the Xbox expansion cards cost considerably more, though they are specially licensed and are essentially plug-and-play. Regardless, this exciting deal offers Xbox Series X|S owners a chance to upgrade their storage capacity for much less money.
You can use an external drive with your Xbox Series X|S, but you’ll only be able to view saved files, including videos via VLC player’s app, and play some previous-gen Xbox games directly from the external drive. For games optimized for the Xbox Series X|S, you’ll have to transfer the games to the internal storage or use an expansion card like this one from Seagate.
At $200, the 2TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card is down to its lowest price ever. The 2TB launched with a hefty MSRP of $360; however, it’s been averaging $250 for the past few months. That is still an amazing $50 discount, especially for such a massive capacity increase that will put all your storage woes to bed. The SSD was only discounted to $230 during last year’s Black Friday, so this is potentially the best deal you can get for the 2TB Seagate expansion card, even with Black Friday approaching.
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The Seagate Storage Expansion Card plugs into the storage slot at the back of your Xbox Series X/S and instantly expands your internal storage. Perhaps the best feature is that it can run games just as fast as the internal SSD, which means you can comfortably install and run games optimized for the Xbox Series X/S directly from the drive without taking a performance hit. It also supports all the advanced features of the newer consoles, including Quick Resume.
Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S 2TB
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The Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S is a proprietary add-on storage slot. It clips on the back of both current-generation consoles using a connector that resembles a CF Express card but supports PCI-E 4.0 Speeds for data transfer to the Xbox.
If the 2TB model is still pricey for you, the 1TB version has also been discounted from $160 to $149. It’s a smaller discount compared to its bigger cousin, but it’s still nice to see as the 1TB version rarely goes on sale. For those looking for the most affordable 1TB Xbox expansion card, the WD_Black 1TB C50 Expansion Card is a good alternative available at a discounted price of $145. It offers plug-and-play compatibility and can also run Xbox Series X/S optimized games, like Seagate. Western Digital also offers a 512GB model for just $80. However, for value hunters, the 2TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card offers the lowest cost per GB, coming in at just $0.0198 per gigabyte.
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