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

Nov 09, 2024 11:22 PM - 1 month ago 37965

Black Friday won’t beryllium present for respective much weeks, but the vacation promos are opening to return style astatine Amazon, Best Buy, and different retailers. We expect to spot steep discounts connected a number of gaming equipment erstwhile galore of the early income kick disconnected adjacent week, but if you want to shop 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 description cards are a awesome measurement to grow the retention capacity of your Xbox Series X aliases Xbox Series S. The NVMe-based, Microsoft-licensed cards — of which location are presently 2 — are incredibly easy to install, fast, and let you to tally games arsenic if they were loaded connected your console’s soul memory. That intends they support Microsoft’s Quick Resume usability and forestall you from having to shuffle downloads around, which you’d person to do if you were to acquisition a USB-based outer difficult thrust (those are constricted to playing backward-compatible games).

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

A Seagate 1TB Expansion Card plugged into the backmost of an Xbox Series X console.

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

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