Seagate's 8TB Game Drive for Xbox Just Got Cheaper for a Limited Time, 16x Storage and One Solid Deal

Gizmodo

28-05-2025

For friends, family, and loved ones who play video games on the reg, some new gaming accessories make for wonderful gifts. with Memorial Day deals still abound, you can find some big opportunities to save on peripherals and components such as controllers, headsets, hard drives, you name it. If you yourself are an Xbox Series X or Series S player or love someone who is, treat yourself or them to this Seagate Game Drive for Xbox. You can expand the onboard storage to download and play more games for just $190. Normally this external hard drive goes for $220, but right now it's $30 off over at Best Buy.
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The Xbox Series X and Series S are the current generation of Microsoft gaming consoles. The more robust Series X features an internal SSD with a total storage of 1TB while the Series S supports a storage of just 512GB out of the box. After considering the system software loaded on them that gets consoles to run in the first place, the actually-usable storage is considerably less than that. Plus, games these days are ballooning in file size. Most recently, the The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion remaster released last month and that game alone has a download size of over a hundred gigabytes. If you want to make the best of your Xbox console, you're going to want some form of additional storage.
8TB of Xbox Storage
The Seagate Game Drive for Xbox will add a whopping 8TB to your console. That's almost 16 times the storage capacity as the Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S off the shelf.
Adding an external hard drive to your Xbox could not be easier. The Seagate expansion hard drive simply plugs into your console over USB. The Xbox Series S or Xbox Series X will recognize it to be a hard drive and will allow you to choose to download games directly to it instead of the console's internal drive. The external hard drives only takes about two minutes to set up.
Some past generation titles or smaller indie games can be played directly off the external hard drive. However, newer, more expansive titles will require you to move them from the hard drive to the Xbox's internal drive as they require the fast load times the onboard storage offers. It's not the perfect solution, but it is still much faster than redownloading games after deleting to make space.