Upgrade your Series X|S ahead of the giant Xbox Black Friday sale: WD’s official Expansion card hits best price of the year at $100

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We are now tracking a deal at Amazon that drops WD_BLACK’s 1TB C50 Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S to $99.99 shipped. Regularly $150, this 1TB expansion card is now seeing a straight-up $50 discount. Only once before today have we seen this Xbox storage drop below today’s discounted price, and it’s now within just $1 of that. This also happens to be the lowest we have seen it fetch this year, landing $10 below its previous 2025 low and making this a great time to cash in. You can also get this in 512GB and 2TB variants, and they’re both at $79.99 and $249.99 shipped right now. Head below for more details.

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This WD plug-and-play expansion drive is built specifically for the Xbox Series X|S and offers a more affordable alternative to Seagate’s expansion card that’s currently fetching $149. It fully supports Microsoft’s Velocity Architecture and Quick Resume, and is available in 512GB, 1TB, and 2TB capacities. It’s a compact, hassle-free way to boost your storage and keep more games installed, and using one of these is as simple as plugging it into the console’s expansion slot. You can check out our launch coverage for more details.

A bunch of other portable SSDs, flash drives, and memory cards are discounted right now as a part of B&H’s updated early Black Friday sale, and you can check them out right here. You might also want to swing by Best Buy’s Week 3 Black Friday landing page and browse through its collection of gaming accessories deals.

WD_BLACK 1TB C50 Storage Expansion Card features:

• The WD_BLACK C50 Expansion Card for Xbox leverages the Xbox Velocity Architecture and delivers the same performance as your Xbox Series X|S internal storage
• As game file sizes grow, capacities from 512GB to 1TB* let you keep more of today’s top titles installed and ready to go. (* 1GB = 1 billion bytes and 1TB = 1 trillion bytes. Actual user capacity may be less depending on operating environment.)
• This officially licensed Xbox expansion card is plug-and-play with your Xbox Series X|S, so you don’t have to worry about compatibility or opening your console to install.
• The expansion card’s slick, industrial aesthetics deliver the cool factor that WD_BLACK is known for and fit in perfectly with your Xbox console.