Xbox Series X|S owners can save on both officially licensed expansion cards at Amazon for Prime Big Deal Days. The Seagate 2TB Xbox Expansion Card is on sale for only $199, saving you $50 off its list price of $250. Amazon has a countdown clock on this deal, as it is set to expire tonight, October 9, at 11:59 PM PT. The WD Black C50 Expansion Card deals–$65 for 512GB or $120 for 1TB–don’t have the countdown clock, but we wouldn’t necessarily count on them sticking around. The Seagate 2TB drive offers the best value here, but Western Digital’s smaller capacity drives are considerably cheaper (unsurprisingly).
You can run out of space on your Xbox Series X|S surprisingly fast. The Series X has 802GB of usable space, while the base model Series S clocks in at 364GB. Modern AAA games eat up space quickly, and if you subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, deleting games to make room for new ones can become the norm.
You can plug regular USB external hard drives into your Xbox Series X|S, but these drives can only serve as storage for Series X|S games. If you want to play those games again, you would need to transfer them back to your Xbox’s SSD.
Seagate’s and Western Digital’s Expansion Cards are plug-and-play extensions of your Xbox’s SSD. You can store and boot games just as you would with games installed to internal storage.
Thanks to the Xbox Velocity proprietary technology, there’s no loss of data transfer speed either as you’ll still enjoy very fast loading times on your games and the Quick Resume function to switch between them in mere seconds.
