If you’re an Xbox Series X|S owner who regularly has to delete games or move data between your SSD and an external hard drive, you’ll want to check out Amazon’s current batch of deals on the Western Digital Black C50 Expansion Card and Seagate Expansion Card. These are the only two expandable storage devices that work with the proprietary storage slot on the back of your Xbox. Amazon is selling the WD Black C50 for up to $25 off, and the 2TB Xbox Expansion Card by Seagate is up to $40 off.
You can run out of space on your Xbox Series X|S surprisingly fast. The Series X has 802GB of usable space, while the base model Series S clocks in at 364GB. Modern AAA games eat up space quickly, and if you subscribe to Xbox Game Pass Ultimate, deleting games to make room for new ones can become the norm.
Outside of a few awesome deals at Woot that sold out extremely fast, we haven’t seen substantial discounts on Xbox Expansion Cards often.
Though you can plug regular USB external hard drives into your Xbox Series X|S, you can only use them to store Series X|S games. You can’t launch new-gen games from proprietary storage devices unless you insert the officially licensed Seagate or Western Digital expansion cards into the dedicated slot on your Series X|S.
Thanks to the Xbox Velocity proprietary technology, there’s no loss of data transfer speed either as you’ll still enjoy very fast loading times on your games and the Quick Resume function to switch between them in mere seconds.
