Seagate’s 2TB Xbox Expansion Card has returned to its best price to date

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Black Friday won’t beryllium present for respective much weeks, but the vacation promos are opening to instrumentality signifier astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and different retailers. We expect to spot steep discounts connected a fig of gaming goods erstwhile galore of the aboriginal income kick disconnected adjacent week, but if you privation to store up of time, Seagate’s 2TB Storage Expansion Card for the Xbox Series X / S is already matching its all-time debased of $199.99 ($160 off) astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and Seagate’s online storefront.

While pricey, Seagate’s proprietary enlargement cards are a large mode to grow the retention capableness of your Xbox Series X oregon Xbox Series S. The NVMe-based, Microsoft-licensed cards — of which determination are presently 2 — are incredibly casual to install, fast, and let you to tally games arsenic if they were loaded connected your console’s interior memory. That means they enactment Microsoft’s Quick Resume relation and forestall you from having to shuffle downloads around, which you’d person to bash if you were to acquisition a USB-based outer hard thrust (those are constricted to playing backward-compatible games).

Understandably, Sony’s attack to expandable storage, which lets PlayStation 5 owners upgrade their console with immoderate PS5-compatible M.2 SSD, is inactive acold much inviting. But Seagate’s proprietary enactment has been coming down successful terms since the instauration of Western Digital’s WD_Black C50, and Seagate’s 2TB exemplary is acold easier to tummy present than with its archetypal starting terms of $399.99. Here’s hoping the existent terms driblet is simply a motion of steeper cuts to come.

Proprietary SSD enlargement for the Xbox Series X / S consoles. The plug-and-play drives are designed to beryllium arsenic accelerated arsenic the Xbox interior SSD and are sold successful 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB configurations.

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