Xbox Series X|S owners can purchase two officially licensed expansion cards on Amazon during Prime Big Deal Days. this Seagate 2TB Xbox expansion card for just $199saving $50 off the list price of $250. Amazon has a countdown to the deal, which expires tonight, October 9, at 11:59 PM PT. this WD Black C50 expansion card There’s no countdown to the deals — $65 for 512GB or $120 for 1TB — but we don’t necessarily expect them to stick around. The Seagate 2TB drive offers the best value here, but Western Material’s smaller capacity drive is much cheaper (unsurprisingly).
Seagate 2TB for only $199 | WD C50 512GB – $65 / 1TB – $120
The Seagate 2TB expansion card has never been available at such a low price on Amazon. In fact, this particular model launched with the Series X|S and cost a whopping $400. Last year, around the same time Western Digital released the C50, Seagate dropped the prices of its 1TB and 2TB cards. The 2TB model dropped all the way to $280, and has since been slashed again to its current MSRP of $250.
Amazon’s deal lets you buy a 2TB card for half the price Xbox owners paid in the first few years of the market. Seagate’s 1TB expansion card sells for $130 (originally $150), but if you’re opting for a smaller capacity, there are cheaper options.
The WD Black C50 1TB model is discounted by about 20%, bringing the price down from $150 to $120.64. That’s very close to Amazon’s all-time best price for a 1TB configuration. Meanwhile, the 512GB model is priced at $65.54, down from $80.
You can run out of space on your Xbox Series X|S at an alarming rate. The X-Series has 802GB of available space, while the base model S-Series has 364GB. Modern AAA games take up space quickly, and if you subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, deleting games to make room for new ones may become the norm.
You can plug regular USB external hard drives into the Xbox Series X|S, but these drives can only be used as storage for Series X|S games. If you want to play these games again, you’ll need to transfer them back to the Xbox’s SSD.
Expansion cards from Seagate and Western Digital are plug-and-play expansions for the Xbox SSD. You can save and launch games just like installing them to internal storage.
Thanks to Xbox Velocity proprietary technology, there’s no loss in data transfer speeds either, as you can still enjoy fast loading times and quick resume features for switching between games in just seconds.
