Today, weeks ahead of Black Friday proper, Amazon has dropped the price of the Seagate Storage Expansion Card for the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles to $189.99, a $30 price drop from its original $220 MSRP. This is the lowest price we've seen this year and $10 less than the previous price low.
Seagate 1TB Storage Expansion Card (SSD) for Xbox Series X|S for $189.99
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There's only 1TB of storage in the Xbox Series X and 512GB in the Xbox Series S console, and some of it is used for the OS. A 1TB drive would double your Series X total storage capacity and triple the Series S. Like the PS5, the Xbox Series X benefits from additional storage that is also fast enough to match the speed of the internal SSD. Unfortunately, unlike the PS5, you can't just install any third party SSD, even the ones that are fast enough. You'll specifically need a Seagate storage expansion card.
The Seagate expansion card is essentially a 1TB NVNE SSD that's wrapped in a proprietary Xbox-compatible shell. Unlike the more complicated PS5 SSD installation, where you have to open up the PS5 in order to access the SSD slot, the Seagate expansion card simply plugs right into its own dedicated port on the back of the Xbox. It delivers the same speed as the internal SSD and thus you won't sacrifice performance or experience longer load times that you would have experienced with a regular USB drive.
It's certainly not nice for Microsoft to force us to stick with this proprietary drive, so the least we can do as thanks is pay as little as we can for it. This is an early Black Friday deal and we doubt it will drop much more in price, if at all. It was on sale for $199.99 during Amazon's Prime Day sale earlier in October so you've already done well holding off for a bit longer.
Looking for more discounts? Take a look at our guide to the best Black Friday deals.
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