We’ve safely exited another summer gaming lull and it looks like we’re entering a bull run of great games heading into 2025. As a result, the 512GB of internal storage supplied by the Xbox Series S is feeling increasingly paltry. You’ll even start to feel the squeeze on the 1TB Series X when you load up on new titles like Call of Duty: Black Ops VI (which demands about 85GB for multiplayer alone, and much more if you’re into the campaign). Don’t even get us started on the spate of games due in the next year and beyond. The 1TB WD_Black C50 expansion card can offer relief, and it’s down to an all-time low of $99.99 ($56 off) at Amazon and Best Buy. You can also get the 512GB card for $67.99 ($12 off), which is $2 more than its lowest price.
The expansion card is tiny and looks much like Western Digital’s other Black-branded storage products, but offers NVMe storage for your Xbox Series X/S that’s nearly as fast as the internal SSD. That means it’s fully capable of storing and running games optimized for the current generation console, complete with quality-of-life features like Quick Resume. With ordinary external hard drives and SSDs, you’d only be able to store the games and would need to transfer them in order to play. It still stings to see proprietary storage formats like these in 2024, but one advantage is that it’s an easy plug-and-play expansion that requires no tools.