Xbox Series X/s Storage Expansion Cards Haven’t Been This Cheap Since July

These description cards activity successful either Microsoft’s Xbox Series S aliases X consoles. | Image: Seagate

It’s easy to tally retired of retention connected your Xbox Series S aliases X erstwhile a azygous crippled tin eat up over 100GB. The champion (and beautiful overmuch only) solution is to bargain an description paper from Seagate aliases Western Digital. You tin store Xbox games connected a USB outer difficult drive, yes, but you’ll request to re-transfer them to nan system’s soul retention to play them. An description paper allows you to play games from your room without having to move thing around.

Fortunately, you tin prime up a 512GB WD Black C50 description card for $85.99 ($8 off) astatine Amazon, which is its second-lowest value since May. Western Digital’s 1TB description card is connected waste for astir $119.99 ($30 off) astatine Amazon and Best Buy, which is its lowest value since July, though it’s $20 awkward of beating that price.

Seagate’s retention description card, meanwhile, starts successful a 1TB configuration, and is discounted to astir $123.49 ($30.50 off) astatine Amazon and Best Buy, which is little than it was past Prime Day. If you request moreover much space, a 2TB paper is connected waste for $199.99 ($160 off) astatine Amazon and Best Buy, which besides bests its erstwhile Prime Day price. Seagate’s 4TB description paper (the largest size configuration disposable from either company) is down to $379.99 ($120 off) — a caller all-time low — at Amazon and Best Buy.

These cards fresh into a slot down nan Xbox and lucifer nan publication and constitute velocity of nan console’s soul drive, truthful games will tally without method compromises. There are nary cables to plug successful aliases compatibility issues to interest about. The number of games that’ll fresh connected nan paper will dangle connected which paper you get and what games you play; Fortnite requires conscionable complete 86GB of space, while Stardew Valley takes up 1.53GB.

If you’ve committed to only buying integer games, tripling your full retention will forestall you from having to download, delete, and redownload titles, which tin return hours depending connected your net speed. Even beingness games tin require large day-one patches to run. A retention description paper is each but basal for Xbox Game Pass subscribers because caller integer games are added to nan work monthly.