I am once again telling Xbox gamers not to buy the Seagate Expansion card

Please save yourself s🌳ome money with this Cy💖ber Monday Xbox deal

WD Black C50 Black Friday deal image with crying Seagate Expansion Card next to it
(Image credit: Future)

Not all Cyber Monday deals are built equally - and we often get a hint that some might be worse than others months in advance. Back in October Amazon held its Big Deal Days event, marking the second Prime-exclusive sale of the year. As always, it sparked loads of other retailers to join in the fun and do a dress r🌟ehearsal for Cyber Monday, and while scouring t🔴he shelves, I noticed that Xbox gamers weren't getting the best value for money they could.

If you play on Xbox Series X or S, you♕ have two options if you want to expand your internal storage. On one side, you have the popular, and well-known Offi🦂cial Seagate Expansion Card, and then you have the WD Black C50 - which only launched earlier in 2023. 

While the Seagate option is usually the one most people flock to when it comes to these big deal events, the WD Black C50 is often the cheaper of the two. Right now, in a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyber Monday Xbox deal for example, you can get the , whereas a 𓂃1TB Seagate Expansion 🍌Card will set you back - and that's if you can find stock of it. 

The differences in price here aren't exactly massive, but it's worth knowing that these two storage devices are functionally the exact same. They're both an extension of the console's internal storage, meaning they slot in the back of your Series S or X, and can both launch your games in a heartbeat. Out of all the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best Xbox Series X hard drive options out there, these are the only two that Quick Resume will work with. In other words, these are as close as you'll get to an internal NVMe SSD 💙꧙for the PS5. 

WD Black C50 1TB |
Save $25 - Back down to its lowest-ever price that we𓂃 first found during October's Prime Day, the WD Black C50 in a 1TB capacity is well worth considering for your Xbox Series X or S.

Buy it if:
✅ You want to Quick Resume games from an expanded drive
✅ You want the best value for money in a 1TB deal

Don't buy it if: 
❌ You want 2TB
❌ You don't mind a cheaper external drive

Price check: |

UK:

WD Black C50 1TB + 1 month of Game Pass |
Save £20 - Also on sale in the UK, the WD Blac📖k C50 is the best way to upgrade your Xbox storage this Cyber Monday. We haven't seen this price since the summer in the UK, so this is an even better time to pull the trigger. Lucky for UK shoppers, you even get a month of Game Pass membership for free with this accessory because it's officially licensed.

Buy it if:
✅ You want to Quick Resume games from an expanded drive
✅ You want the best value for money in a 1TB deal

Don't buy it if: 
❌ You want 2TB
❌ You don't mind a cheaper external drive

Price check: |  

Cyber Monda✤y is all about making your money go further, so I wouldn't be doing my job right if I didn't tell you that there's absolutely no need to fork out more money on the Seagate Expansion Card when WD Black's option is far easier to get stock of and is a bit more affordable.

WD Black C50 expansion card for Xbox Series X and S sitting on a black wooden desk with the plastic shield off sitting next to it

(Image credit: Future / Duncan Robertson)

The only caveat has to be that if you need more than 1TB, Seagate is your only option. For some reason, the C50 doesn't come in a 2TB form. The🅰 bad news is that Seagate's 2TB expansion almost knows that it has a monopoly in that department, and it doesn't come cheap. 

As someone who reviews the 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:best SSDs for gaming and the best external hard drives for gaming, charging of this Xbox-specific storage seems absolutely sinful to me. That's literally $100 more for 1 extra terabyte, which, let's be completely honest, no one really needs. It's amazing how 1TB extra can turn you into a game-hoarding dragon that never deletes anyꦬthing, but filling up just one extra terabyte can actually be a struggle. 

To me, there's no real reason to buy the 2TB version of the Seagate Expansion Card, especially when, if you actually need that space, you can always grab a 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyber🗹 𒐪Monday external hard drive deal instead.

澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Cyber Monday gaming deals are ongoing, and there are l𓆏oads to be had. If you fancy grabbing a controller for your Xbox Series X or S, check out the widget below.