SanDisk expansion cards for Xbox Series X|S now available on Amazon — alternative storage solution to Seagate, WD arrives on the market five years after the launch of the consoles

A new storage expansion card for the Xbox Series X|S, produced by SanDisk, is now available on Amazon. This alternative to the Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S, which was the only brand to offer a storage expansion card at launch, is a five-year follow-up to the original consoles. The SanDisk Optimus GX C50 comes in 1TB and 2TB capacities, priced at $249.99 and $486.99, respectively.

However, these drives are currently unavailable on Amazon, so potential buyers will need to sign up for notifications to be alerted when stock becomes available.

While Seagate and SanDisk are the only options for gamers seeking to increase the capacity of their Xbox Series X|S consoles, Western Digital previously made these add-on cards. However, this brand has now shifted focus to HDDs and the spinoff of SanDisk as a separate entity, leaving gamers without the option to purchase WD storage expansion cards.

These specialized storage expansion cards are only necessary for those who wish to directly install more games on their consoles. It is still possible to keep games on an external hard drive and plug it into the console when needed. Nevertheless, the games must be moved from the hard drive back to the Xbox's SSD to ensure proper functionality, making these expansion cards a popular alternative.

In comparison to Sony's PS5, which has an NVMe slot on the console itself, allowing users to upgrade capacity with any PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD, the Xbox Series X|S relies on proprietary storage expansion cards. Similarly, the Nintendo Switch 2 also enables capacity upgrades through a microSD Express slot, though these cards are more expensive and less versatile than microSD cards.