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Stop deleting your favorite games: All three Seagate Xbox Expansion Cards are on sale

If you have an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S, you probably need more storage. Having to uninstall a game to install a new game or an update to one of your favorite titles is a hassle.

The Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S is a plug-and-play solution that lets you expand the storage of your console.

Right now, all sizes of the Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S are on sale. The 1TB model costs $189.99 Best Buy (was $249.99), the 2TB version costs $259.99 (was $349.99) at Amazon. Best Buy's deal on the 4TB card drops the price to $549.99 (was $649.99).


"Seagate's Storage Expansion Card is the best way to add more space to the latest Xbox consoles, while avoiding the annoying limitations of USB drives. While it's an expensive investment that might be hard to justify, those who drop the cash won't be disappointed with the returns." — Matt Brown, former Senior Editor

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This 2TB model has double the storage of the base expansion card and is a great way to get more space for games on your Xbox Series X|S.View Deal

This massive 4TB expansion card is the largest available for your Xbox Series X|S.View Deal

Why buy the Seagate Expansion Card?

Seagate Expansion Card

You can skip game file management and space issues with the Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox. (Image credit: Windows Central)

The Seagate Expansion Card is the simplest way to expand the storage of your console. There's no setup or configuration required to use the card.

Xbox Series X|S games can be massive. Call of Duty: Black Ops 7 alone is 161GB, and that's without DLC. The Seagate Expansion Card delivers similar speeds to the native storage of the Xbox Series X|S, so you can store games on the card and play them without having to transfer files around.

The Seagate Expansion Card also supports Quick Resume, which is a feature that lets you pause your game and power down your console and then pick up exactly where you left off when you load the game again.

Considering how big games are and how many great games are available on the Xbox Series X|S and on the way to the consoles, an expansion card of some kind is a must have. The Seagate Expansion Card is the easiest to use, quick enough to play games off, and is a great deal during Prime Day.

Alternative discounts

Prime Day discounts and a deal at Best Buy provide the best prices on the Seagate Expansion Card, but if those deals expire, you can check out these alternatives:

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FAQ

Can I use it on PC?

The Seagate Expansion Card is meant to be used with an Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S, but it can work with a PC if you pair it with the right adapter.

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Photograph of the 1TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S

Photograph of the 1TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S

AMD's Zen 4 CPUs can still "chomp through even the most demanding workloads" — and the Ryzen 9 7900X remains a smart pick

We have found a limited-time sale on the AMD Ryzen 9 7900X CPU, giving keyboard warriors and gamers a chance to significantly improve their PCs' performance for much less.

Close-up of an AMD Ryzen 7900X processor in clear packaging, showcasing its metallic surface and circuitry details. The tone is high-tech and sleek.

Close-up of an AMD Ryzen 7900X processor in clear packaging, showcasing its metallic surface and circuitry details. The tone is high-tech and sleek.

"The Geekom Mini IT13 is a fantastic choice for people who just need a basic computer:" it's one of the best mini-PCs that's worth every penny

The Geekom IT13 still stands as one of the best mini-PCs we've tested for its reliable performance, large range of ports, and compact design that's currently enjoying a 30% discount sale

A closeup of the front side of the Geekom Mini IT13.

The Geekom IT13's USB and audio jack ports.

This SSD's massive 4TB of storage could jumpstart my gaming PC, as SanDisk's absurd price is finally chipped away

The WD_Black SN850X is currently enjoying a major price drop on Amazon for its gigantic 4TB model, with several bonus discounts for its 1TB, 2TB, and 8TB models for a limited time.

Close-up of a WD_BLACK 2TB SN850X NVMe SSD on a wooden surface. The sleek black rectangular device features labels and specifications in white text.

WD_BLACK's 2TB variant of the SN850X on display.

5 nefarious RAM scams you need to know about in 2026 — Bad actors are benefitting from the memory shortage, and I want to help honest buyers

RAM prices remain out of control, and bad actors are taking advantage of honest buyers with a wide range of scams. Here's how they work and how you can protect yourself next time you buy memory.

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 RAM package stands before vibrant flames, exuding intensity and power. Crucial RAM sticks lie in front, emphasizing tech prowess.

Corsair Vengeance RGB Pro DDR4 RAM package stands before vibrant flames, exuding intensity and power. Crucial RAM sticks lie in front, emphasizing tech prowess.

Our "best overall" SSD for 4.0 PCIe gaming PCs is on a 33% discount — If you hate running of space or waiting on loading screens, this SSD is a must

The Samsung Pro 990 SSD is enjoying discounts on its 1TB, 2TB, and 4TB models on Amazon, giving hardcore PC gamers a chance to upgrade their storage space and cut down on loading times for less.

Samsung 990 Pro SSD on a brown surface, partially in a white case. The packaging highlights "2TB" and "Blistering speed, endless victory."

Samsung 990 Pro SSD on display with its packaging.

My PC game library finally broke me — this WD_Black PCIe 5.0 SSD's huge Amazon discount was the upgrade I needed

The WD_Black SN8100 is a mighty PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD that will improve your PC's storage space while boosting its performance. Normally, the WD_Black SN8100 2TB model costs over $1,000, but with this limited time 54% discount, it's now more affordable. Discounts for the 1TB, 4TB, and 8TB are also available.

A hand holds a SanDisk SSD against a reddish-brown wooden background. The SSD features various certification logos, giving a tech-focused, modern feel.

The WD_Black SN8100 read and write speeds are out of this world.

This 4TB SSD hits 7,000MB/s read speeds, perfect for PC gaming — I can't believe it's $914 CHEAPER than normal with a discount not seen at Amazon

WD_Black's SN7100 is a solid M.2 PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSD suitable for PC gaming, and although it normally costs more than $1,000 due to the RAMpocalypse, it's now down to just $500 at Best Buy for a limited time. 1TB and 2TB models are also on sale.

A futuristic spiral design features multiple WD_BLACK SN710 NVMe SSDs with 4TB capacity, arranged in layers, emitting a warm glow against a circuit board backdrop.

A futuristic spiral design features multiple WD_BLACK SN710 NVMe SSDs with 4TB capacity, arranged in layers, emitting a warm glow against a circuit board backdrop.

"Another all-round excellent mini PC:" Beelink's discounted desktop is fantastic for intensive work and even some PC gaming

The Beelink SER9 Pro+ is a well-made, premium mini-PC built with strong performance rates for productivity (and a little bit for medium-level PC gaming) and a compact form-factor that will preserve space on your desk.

Beelink SER9 PRo

The Beelink SER9 Pro+ on display with its sold seperate dock accessory called the Mate Mini.

Someone discovered Seagate's Xbox Storage Expansion cards can be used on PC — which has made their value more meaningful with these discounts

Several discounts have been discovered for the Seagate Storage Expansion Cards for Xbox, giving people a chance to increase the storage space of their Xbox's (and PC's via a special peripheral) for less.

Photograph of an Seagate Expansion Card being used on a Xbox Series S

A Seagate Expansion Card being used on a Xbox Series S

"I hope NVIDIA's legal team lets this slide": I dive into OpenNOW, an open-source GeForce Now alternative that's trending in cloud gaming — for good reason

OpenNOW is quickly gaining popularity as a quality GeForce Now app alternative, all thanks to its open-source nature. It still has some limitations compared to the official software, but it's on the right path ... assuming NVIDIA's legal team doesn't get involved.

Xbox Ally with OpenNOW app displayed edited in Gemini

Xbox Ally with OpenNOW app displayed edited in Gemini

Konstantin Grcic Finally Designed the Office Desk We Needed

We’ve been designing office desks essentially the same way for decades. Four legs, a flat surface, maybe a drawer if you’re lucky, and an ergonomic chair that costs more than your first car. So when Vitra and German industrial designer Konstantin Grcic quietly dropped the Scout Work Mobile just last month, I paid close attention.

The Scout Work Mobile is part of a larger family of workstation and meeting tables simply called Scout, launched on March 19 of this year. The collection comprises five pieces ranging from stationary desks to mobile variants, and it’s Grcic’s response to how offices actually function today versus how they were designed to function twenty years ago. The Scout Work Mobile is the one that caught my eye: a compact, trapezoidal desk on wheels with a tubular steel frame that rises up and encircles the work surface.

Designer: Konstantin Grcic

That frame is the whole story, really. It’s not decorative. It’s not there to look good in a mood board (though it absolutely does). The frame acts as a grab handle when you’re rolling the thing across a room, a mounting point for privacy screens, and a place to hang accessories. Without any attachments, it still creates what Vitra describes as a “room-within-a-room” effect, a bit of visual and psychological separation from whatever chaos is happening around you. For those of us who’ve had to MacGyver focus time in open-plan offices using noise-cancelling headphones and pure denial, that feels like a genuine design insight rather than a marketing afterthought.

Grcic is known for what Vitra calls a “severely simple” aesthetic. He doesn’t add things for the sake of adding them, and the Scout Work Mobile reflects that clearly: the height adjustment and tilting function work entirely without electricity. No motors, no app, no firmware updates required. It adjusts by hand. That might sound unremarkable, but compared to the increasingly tech-dependent office furniture being released right now, it reads almost like a radical statement.

The mobile aspect of Scout is where the design really earns its name. Return-to-office mandates are reshaping how companies think about their physical spaces, and the rigid assigned-desk model is quietly becoming a liability. Hot-desking, collaborative hubs, project clusters, training rooms that double as focus spaces. Modern offices are being asked to do a lot more with the same square footage. Scout was built for exactly that kind of environment. You grab it, roll it where you need it, work, and move on. No teardown required. No reconfiguration meeting on the calendar.

Grcic put it plainly in an interview with Vitra Magazine: “The aim is not to replace what already exists. Rather, the system is an extension or complementary offering that responds to different levels and styles of work.” That kind of restraint is rare in product design, where the temptation is always to pitch your thing as the only thing. Scout doesn’t ask to own your whole office. It just wants to be useful wherever you put it.

Aesthetically, it sits in that satisfying middle ground between industrial and refined. The tubular steel frame reads as utilitarian at first glance, but the trapezoidal silhouette and deliberate proportions make it feel considered rather than clinical. It’s the kind of furniture that would look at home in a forward-thinking tech company, a design school studio, or a well-curated co-working space. It isn’t trying to disappear into the background, and it certainly doesn’t need to.

What makes Scout genuinely interesting is that it treats mobility as a first principle rather than a feature tacked on after the fact. Desks on wheels have existed forever, but most of them feel like an afterthought, as if someone just bolted casters onto a standard table and called it agile. Grcic designed the Scout Work Mobile from the ground up with movement in mind, and the difference is visible in every element. Office furniture rarely makes me stop and think twice. The Scout Work Mobile managed to.

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This Minimalist Analog World Clock Is the Upgrade You Didn’t Know Your Desk Needed

This 12-sided clock turns global timekeeping into a calmer desk ritual

Keeping up with different time zones sounds simple until it becomes part of your everyday routine. You check your phone before a call, open another tab to confirm the hour, do a quick mental calculation, and still second-guess whether it’s too early in Tokyo or too late in New York. Not to forget the perils of push-notifications – a quick check of time leads you down a drain of doom-scrolling that you take an hour to return from! To add a layer of analog convenience in this increasingly digital setup, I present the Rolling World Clock.

Why Traditional World Clocks Never Quite Feel Right

The Rolling World Clock takes a familiar category and gives it a much smarter form. Instead of relying on screens, menus, or a row of tiny city labels, this analog desk object turns world time into a simple physical interaction. Built with 12 sides, each representing a major timezone city, it lets you roll from one location to another and instantly read the local time with a single hand. It’s a cleaner, more tactile answer to a problem that has long been solved in ways that feel unnecessarily digital.

Designer: MASAFUMI ISHIKAWA .Design

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Change time zones with a single roll.

Using The Analog Experience Feels Better

That analog quality is a big part of the appeal. There’s a growing interest in devices that help people step back from constant digital interaction, and this clock fits neatly into that trend without feeling nostalgic for nostalgia’s sake. It still solves a modern problem, especially for people working with global teams or keeping in touch with friends and family abroad, but it does so in a way that feels grounded and human. You’re not swiping, tapping, or toggling between screens. You’re just rolling the object in your hand and reading the time.

Built for modern routines, expressed through simple interactions.

The city lineup also makes it genuinely useful. The 12 sides cover major global time zones, including London, Paris, Cape Town, Moscow, Los Angeles, Karachi, Mexico City, New York, Shanghai, Tokyo, Sydney, and New Caledonia. That gives it enough range to be practical for a wide variety of work and lifestyle needs, whether you’re coordinating meetings, planning travel, or just trying not to message someone at the wrong hour.

Built for a More Intentional Desk

For the desk setup fanatics, there’s also a strong aesthetic argument here. The Rolling World Clock is available in black and white, two finishes that make it easy to integrate into a modern desk setup without fighting for attention. It has the kind of understated presence that works especially well for young professionals who want their workspace to feel differentiated without becoming visually noisy. It’s functional, yes, but it also reads as a design object, the sort of piece that quietly signals taste.

Clean lines, one hand, no distractions.

That balance of utility and personality is what makes this more than a novelty. If you work across cities, collaborate with clients in different regions, or simply like the idea of keeping global time visible without adding another glowing screen to your day, this clock makes a strong case for itself. It taps into a broader shift toward analog tools that feel slower, more deliberate, and more human, while still solving a very modern problem.

Feels as good in the hand as it looks on the desk.

Why It’s Worth Picking Up Now

At $49, the Rolling World Clock lands in a sweet spot for a desk upgrade that feels distinctive without being overcommitted. It also has the kind of giftable appeal that comes from being both useful and conversation-worthy. And with only a few left, it carries just enough urgency to make hesitation a risky move.

If your desk could use an object that feels smarter, calmer, and more intentional than another digital widget, the Rolling World Clock is worth grabbing now. It’s currently available in the Yanko Design Shop in black and white, and with limited stock remaining, this is one of those rare functional design pieces you probably shouldn’t wait on.

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Our friends at TechRadar say that this is "the only gaming PC you need", and with its advanced specs and 23% discount, it's easy to see why

The Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop, a top-of-the-line PC built for 1440p gaming, is currently enjoying a 23% discount as part of Dell's Spring Sales event.

AI-Generated image of an Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop

AI-Generated image of an Alienware Aurora Gaming Desktop

NVIDIA’s new Dynamic MFG feature could make games smoother… or just weirder. Either way, the real GPU battleground is shifting to software.

Early tests of NVIDIA's new DLSS 4.5 features, Dynamic Multi Frame Generation (MFG) and MFG 6X, have shown positive results. It certainly seems like AI-assisted software is the new GPU frontier, and one day that won't be controversial.

BEIJING, CHINA - AUGUST 01: In this photo illustration, an Nvidia chip is seen through a magnifying glass on August 1, 2025 in Beijing, China. (Photo by VCG/VCG via Getty Images)

NVIDIA's Dynamic MFG and MFG 6X have arrived with DLSS 4.5, and the results are being largely applauded by testers.

The RAM Crisis is price-gouging storage units, but the "definitive" 1TB SSD for gaming handhelds is sideswiping them with this sweet 25% discount

Amazon is hosting a special 25% discount for the vaunted WD_Black SN770M SSD in honor of World Backup Day, allowing portable gamers to upgrade their handheld console's storage size for less.

WD_BLACK SN770M SSD and ROG Ally gaming handheld.

<p>The ROG Ally 2 could really benefit from offering a larger SSD capacity than the first gen did. </p>

Anker’s $70 Power Strip Clamps to Your Desk, Keeps Cables Off Floors

Desks have gotten more crowded. Between the laptop, the monitor, the phone, and whatever Bluetooth peripherals have accumulated over the past few years, keeping everything charged without making a mess has become its own challenge. Power strips have always been the go-to solution, but most still end up on the floor or behind furniture, at the end of a cable that creates the very clutter it was supposed to fix.

Anker’s Nano Power Strip (10-in-1, 70W, Clamp) approaches that problem from a different angle, quite literally. Instead of sitting on a surface or hiding under a desk, it clamps onto the desk edge, putting 10 ports right where they’re actually useful. First unveiled at CES 2026 and now available in the US for $69.99, it aims to reduce the mess that most power strips quietly make worse.

Designer: Anker

The clamp structure sits on either side of the desk edge, with ports distributed across its upper and lower sections. Six AC outlets handle the larger plugs, while two USB-A and two USB-C ports take care of smaller devices. Splitting the ports between two zones keeps things from crowding on one side, a small but practical detail that makes the strip feel properly considered rather than just generously stocked.

The USB-C charging capability is where the performance stands out. A single USB-C port can deliver up to 70W, enough to run a MacBook or most other laptops without needing a separate wall adapter. That output relies on GaN technology, which keeps the strip slim at just 0.75 inches thick despite the power output, and avoids the extra heat and bulk that older charging components tend to generate.

Installing it takes seconds. The adjustable clamp fits desk edges between 0.6 and 1.8 inches thick, covering most standard desks, and locks in firmly enough for one-hand use. That might sound like a minor detail, but plugging in a cable while the strip shifts around is exactly the kind of daily irritation that compounds. A stable mount means you’re not bracing the strip with your other hand every single time.

Anker also built in 1,500J of surge protection, along with a smart overload mechanism that includes a reset button. When it trips, the button pops out to cut power instantly. Press it again, and it’s back to normal. It’s a simple failsafe, but a useful one on a strip mounted at desk height, where a sudden power surge or overloaded circuit could easily go unnoticed until something stops working.

Anker markets it for gaming and office setups alike, and it’s easy to see why. Gaming desks accumulate powered accessories faster than most, from peripherals to controllers to headset chargers. The dual-zone layout helps spread those cables rather than pile them in one corner, and the 0.75-inch profile doesn’t take up surface space or interfere with the kind of clean, organized desk that people actually put effort into building.

Cable clutter isn’t going anywhere, but it can at least be contained. The Nano Power Strip doesn’t reinvent the power strip so much as it rethinks where one should live. At $69.99, it’s a reasonable ask for 10 ports, 70W of GaN-powered fast charging, and a desk-mounted solution that keeps the tangle off the floor and closer to where it actually gets used.

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