Xbox Series X / S expansion cards are near their lowest prices for Prime Day

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There’s a deluge of games coming to Xbox implicit the adjacent fewer months, truthful you’d amended person immoderate other retention handy. Xbox Series X / S owners lone person 1 existent enactment for newer games: the assorted enlargement cards you tin get from Western Digital and Seagate. Thankfully, they’re steeply discounted for the October Amazon Prime Day event.

Exclusively for Prime members, Western Digital’s WD_Black C50 1TB Storage Expansion Card for Xbox is on merchantability astatine Amazon for $120.64 (about $37 off), precise astir its lowest terms to date. You tin besides get WD’s 512GB card for $65.54 (about $14 off), a fewer dollars shy of its lowest mark.

Western Digital’s retention enlargement cards for Xbox Series X / S consoles are speedy, plug-and-play cards that lucifer the show of the consoles’ onboard SSDs. They connection a somewhat lower-cost alternate to Seagate’s enlargement cards, which were the lone crippled successful municipality for years.

Seagate enlargement cards are connected sale, too. They’re a spot much expensive, but they besides don’t necessitate a Prime membership. Amazon has discounted the 1TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card to $129.99 ($30 off), which is conscionable $4 much than its all-time low. You tin treble up with a 2TB paper for $199.99 ($50 off) astatine Amazon, which is the lowest terms yet.

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.

These cards sacrifice virtually nary show compared to the consoles’ interior memory. Other USB-based outer retention options connected modern Xbox consoles are constricted to playing backward compatible games oregon conscionable temporarily offloading existent games to prevention abstraction connected the built-in drive. But the NVMe-based enlargement cards tin tally games and adjacent enactment the Xbox’s Quick Resume function, allowing you to support aggregate titles moving astatine the aforesaid clip for accelerated back-and-forth switching.

With modern games consuming truthful overmuch space, the built-in 1TB of retention connected the Series X — oregon 512GB, successful the lawsuit of the basal Series S — fills up quickly. PlayStation 5 owners whitethorn beryllium capable to install a assortment of overmuch cheaper M.2 SSDs, but Microsoft chose the much straightforward plug-and-play method with its proprietary enlargement cards, astatine a price.