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Seagate Offloads Xbox NVMe SSD at Just 14 Cents per GB, Even Cheaper Than No-Name Storage Expansion Card

Larger games continue to eat up storage space. Get an expansion so you can play more without uninstalling the old.
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The Seagate Storage Expansion Card 2TB for Xbox Series X|S is the officially licensed plug-and-play storage upgrade for current Xbox consoles, slotting into the back of the system to double or triple the number of games you can keep installed at once. The card uses the same custom NVMe SSD architecture as the Xbox’s internal drive, which means you can play any game directly from it without performance loss. Quick Resume, Velocity Architecture, DirectStorage support, and ray-tracing all work the same on the expansion card as they do on the internal drive, with no copy-back step before launching a game.

You can get the Seagate 2TB Expansion Card for $270 on Amazon right now, $80 below the $350 list price. That works out to about 23% off.

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A substantial expansion for your Xbox for all your favorite games

Modern AAA Xbox games are massive, and that’s the situation this card is built to solve. Call of Duty, Starfield, Halo Infinite, and Microsoft Flight Simulator each chew through 100 GB or more of the Series X’s 1TB internal drive. Add a couple of those, plus the operating system overhead and a few smaller games, and you’re juggling installs and uninstalls every time you want to swap titles. Fortunately, the 2TB version of the Seagate card gets you out of that loop by tripling your usable storage on the Series X or quintupling it on the Series S.

The Expansion Card inserts directly into one port at the rear of the console, providing a clicking sensation similar to that of an older-generation game console memory card. To add the Expansion Card, no tools are needed, and thermal paste isn’t required. Once installed, your Xbox console will recognize the additional Storage immediately and allow you to select which location you would like to transfer your existing games or apps via the Xbox Dashboard.

Many users find the Series S benefits most from this upgrade. The Series S ships with a 512GB SSD, with around 364GB usable after the operating system takes its share. A single AAA game can fill that. Adding the 2TB Seagate card brings the Series S into the same usable-storage range as the Series X, without giving up the more affordable console price.

The Seagate 2TB Expansion Card is usually $350, but you can get it now on Amazon for $270. If you continually find your Series X or S storage filling up, the Seagate card clears that headache while keeping every Xbox feature working exactly the way Microsoft intended.

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