series x storage math: expansion card or delete and pray?

100GB base. Updates will push it past 150 easy. That's a third of the internal drive gone. Expansion cards still cost a kidney. Seagate 1TB is what, $150 if you're lucky? PAIN.

I'm not doing the delete dance. Got Forza, got CarX, got a whole drift library. Cold storage on a cheap external works for old games but Series X|S titles need the internal or the card. So I'm biting the bullet. Expansion card. Treat it like a standalone ECU. Plug it in, forget it's there.

What's your move? Shuffle games like a deck of cards or pay the tax?

standalone ECU

That analogy actually works. I'm too cheap to bite that bullet though. Might just shuffle games to a cheap external and eat the transfer time. Has anyone timed how long a 100GB move takes over USB? I could be wrong but it's probably not awful.