For better or (mostly) worse, the only way to fully increase the memory of the Xbox Series X/S is to use a dedicated expansion card. Three and a half years into the life of the consoles, only two official solutions remain: Seagate’s Memory Expansion Card and WD Black C50. It’s a limiting case, but if you’re tired of deleting and reinstalling games to make room, versions of each card are at least a little cheaper than usual right now. The 1TB WD Black C50 It sells for $125 on Amazon 2TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card It’s down to $230 on Amazon Best Buy.
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That’s nearly $5 off the best price we’ve seen for an Xbox memory card from WD.
The former is $5 more than the lowest price we’ve ever seen, but still $25 less than the card’s regular price street price. Note that Seagate has a 1TB model technically decreased it’s been as low as $90 a few times before, but those deals usually sell out pretty quickly; As of this writing, that driver It costs $140. And the discount on the 2TB Seagate card is in line with the best price we’ve tracked. Other it goes normally For $250. Since WD doesn’t sell 2TB cards, it’s also the highest-capacity option you can buy. Both of these discounts are equal we saw the prices on Black Friday last year.
Again, these aren’t huge prices in the context of the broader storage market. Sony lets you upgrade with the PlayStation 5-ia wider range almost all traditional M.2 SSDs are available at a significantly lower cost per gigabyte. Our top pick PS5 SSD buying guideeg running costs $90 for 1TB or $158 for 2 TB. This is despite consumer SSD prices generally increasing over the past few months.
If you’re a new Xbox owner, you don’t have much choice. You can use a standard external drive for this shop X/S series games or run backward-compatible titles from Xbox One and older consoles, but the only way to play current generation games via internal memory or one of these official cards. However, the cards themselves are just as fast as that internal SSD, and they’re a breeze to set up: You just plug the little device into your Xbox’s expansion slot and you’re good to go. Sticker shock is one of the major downsides, but these discounts should lighten the load a bit.
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