Ahead of Black Friday, Amazon has reduced prices on officially licensed Seagate storage expansion cards for Xbox Series X and S consoles. The Model with a capacity of 1 TB dropped to $109.99 and a Model with a capacity of 2 TB is $189.99. Both sizes are sold directly by Amazon (not through a marketplace seller) with free shipping. The Seagate storage expansion card is the best SSD for Xbox, which isn’t surprising since the options are quite constrained. The second recommended model – WD Black C50 – is currently much more high-priced.
Seagate Storage Expansion Cards for Xbox Series X
Seagate Xbox Expansion Card (2TB)
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The Seagate storage expansion card is essentially a 1TB or 2TB NVME SSD housed in an external enclosure with a PCIe Gen4 interface that plugs directly into a specialized port on your Xbox console. Unlike the more complicated process of installing a PS5 SSD, which involves opening the PS5 to access the SSD slot, the WD expansion card is literally plug and play. This expansion card offers the same speed as the internal SSD, so you won’t lose performance or experience extended loading times like a regular USB drive. Even with just a 1TB expansion card, you can double the storage on the original Xbox Series X and triple the storage on the (white) Xbox Series S.
If you’re looking for an officially licensed storage solution (which we highly recommend), your options are constrained to WD or Seagate expansion cards. If you see other unlicensed tough drives being sold by unknown brands, give them a tough pass; there is a high probability that they will either not work properly or will not work at all.
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