This 2TB WD Black Xbox Expansion Card Deal Is So Cheap It Looks Like a Mistake

As games support ballooning successful size, the Xbox Series X's default 1TB thrust conscionable isn’t cutting it anymore. Big-budget releases similar Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 oregon The Outer Worlds 2 devour up implicit 100GB each, and erstwhile Grand Theft Auto 6 yet lands, it’s astir guaranteed to beryllium 1 of the largest downloads ever.

That’s wherever enlargement cards travel in, and Best Buy’s existent woody is simply a uncommon standout. This is genuinely the cheapest we’ve ever seen the 2TB model, truthful don’t expect it to instrumentality astir for long. I don't adjacent expect it to beryllium this terms during the Black Friday income this year, truthful drawback it up arsenic accelerated arsenic you can.

Unlike a regular outer SSD, this is an official Xbox-licensed enlargement card. It’s built with a high-speed NVMe halfway and plugs straight into the Series X|S, moving hand-in-hand with Microsoft’s Velocity Architecture. In plain English: you’ll get the aforesaid show arsenic the console’s interior storage, with instant Quick Resume, super-fast load times, and seamless crippled switching.

With 2TB of space, you tin halt juggling installs oregon deleting aged favorites conscionable to marque country for thing new. The paper besides comes with 1 period of Xbox Game Pass Ultimate and Discord Nitro, truthful you tin dive consecutive into a bigger room of games the infinitesimal you acceptable it up. Installation is simple: descent the C50 into the backmost of your Xbox and it’s acceptable to go.

There are a mates of caveats. If you chiefly play backwards-compatible titles from the Xbox One, 360, oregon archetypal Xbox, you astir apt don’t request retention this accelerated — those games don’t propulsion modern retention requirements successful the aforesaid way. And if you’re lone looking for a thrust to store Series X|S games (rather than play them directly), you tin prevention wealth with a much accepted outer SSD similar the Seagate Game Drive oregon WD Black P40.

But if you privation full-speed storage that works precisely similar the console’s interior drive, the WD Black C50 is 1 of the astir straightforward upgrades you tin buy. Other apical gaming deals close present see refurbished PS5 consoles from conscionable $310, carnal copes of Resident Evil 4 for $15 and Final Fantasy 16 for $23.49, portion the fancy looking Xbox "Breaker" bid controllers besides up for preorder this week.

Robert Anderson is Senior Commerce Editor and IGN's nonmigratory deals adept connected games, collectibles, trading paper games, and more. You tin travel him @robertliam21 connected Twitter/X oregon Bluesky.

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Sep 8, 2025 11:33 am