This 1TB WD Black C50 deal matches the all-time lowest price at Amazon. We’ve only seen the $125 price a handful of times since the card’s launch last year. Though it’s not as substantial of a discount, Amazon is also has a promotion on the 512GB C50 that drops the price from $80 to $70.
The WD Black C50 is one of two official storage solutions. The only other alternative is Seagate’s Expansion Card, which is going for $140 (was $150) for its 1TB model at Amazon. The C50 is clearly the better deal at the moment for a 1TB card, especially since both devices accomplish the same thing.
But if you want to further maximize your storage capacity, Seagate is the only manufacturer with the 2TB Xbox Expansion Card. For a limited time, you can get the 2TB Seagate Expansion Card for a $40 discount, dropping the price from $270 to $230.
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.
