This deal has returned. Amazon has dropped the price of the Seagate 1TB Expansion Card for the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles to $149.99, a 32% price drop from its original $220 MSRP. We saw this price back in the beginning of May but it had since gone back up in price. It might not be as inexpensive as a PS5 1TB upgrade, but there are really no other options for a high-speed storage upgrade at the moment.
Seagate 1TB Storage Expansion Card (SSD) for Xbox Series X|S for $149.99
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 need a proprietary drive at at this moment, the only option is Seagate.
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 was a pretty substantial price drop compared to the lowest price of $199.99 that we saw last year.
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