Xbox Series X|S owners can expand their storage capability for less at once due to a pleasant deal at Best Buy and Amazon. Seagate’s 2TB Expansion Card is on sale for $200 at each retailers. Amazon is matching Best Buy’s deal, which is one in every of many early Black Friday gaming and tech deals at Best Buy this week. Seagate’s 2TB model is the most important officially licensed Xbox expansion card.
$200 (was $250)
Seagate’s 2TB Expansion Card was available for this price during Prime Big Deal Days last month, but that was the primary time the 2TB model dropped to this low of a price.
Actually, this particular model launched alongside the Series X|S with an eye-watering $400 price tag. Last 12 months, right across the time Western Digital’s C50 Expansion Card released, Seagate dropped the costs of its 1TB and 2TB cards. The 2TB model fell all the way in which all the way down to $280 and has since received one other price cut to its current $250 MSRP.
Amazon’s deal helps you to get the 2TB card for half the value Xbox owners paid during its first couple of years available on the market. Seagate’s 1TB Expansion Card costs $150 and is not on sale for the time being. The WD Black C50 1TB is $144, which is technically a deal ($6 off), but not one. Western Digital also makes the C50 in a 512GB model for $80.
You’ll be able to run out of space in your Xbox Series X|S surprisingly fast. The 1TB Series X has 802GB of usable space, while the bottom model Series S clocks in at 364GB. Modern AAA games eat up space quickly, and in case you subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, deleting games to make room for brand spanking new ones can change into the norm.
You’ll be able to plug regular USB external hard drives into your Xbox Series X|S, but these drives can only function storage for Series X|S games. If you wish to play those games again, you would wish 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’ll be able to store and boot games just as you’d with games installed to internal storage.
Due to the Xbox Velocity proprietary technology, there isn’t any loss of knowledge transfer speed either as you will still enjoy very fast loading times in your games and the Quick Resume function to change between them in mere seconds.
For those who’re out there for an Xbox this holiday, the 1TB Series X is on sale for $448 at Walmart.
Top-of-the-line Xbox deals available now could be Amazon’s Xbox Cloud Gaming bundle for $75. It comes with an Xbox Wireless Controller, 4K Amazon Fire Stick, and a one-month Game Pass Ultimate subscription. We’re calling it an Xbox Cloud Gaming bundle, because Fire TV 4K Sticks now support cloud streaming, which is exclusive to Game Pass Ultimate subscribers.
But even in case you don’t care about cloud streaming, getting a Sky Cipher Special Edition Controller with a 4K Fire Stick for $75 is a stellar deal. The transparent blue controller released in August and sells for $64 (was $70) by itself at Amazon. Xbox released a transparent transparent controller called Ghost Cipher last month; while this one is not eligible for the bundle deal, it’s on sale for $60 (was $70).
