I have Xbox x and want to store long game clips on that USB drive but it needs to be...

You can use a hard drive that is USB 3.0 or 3.1 It doesn't have to be an SSD. I have a regular HDD myself and it works fine.

On the Series S/X, Series S/X games and upgraded One games will only run from the internal drive or the Seagate Expansion Card. You can still store the games on a USB storage device and move it to the internal to play if needed.

Hi,

I have some results to questions.

1. I only recently used an external drive to copy clips following a recent XBox notification that older clips would start to be deleted.

2. I now copied 20 clips to the external drive connected to the XBox rear USB (previously I used the front USB). Only 10 copied to the newly created XBoxCaptureCopies.

3. I set the XBox to save clips to the external drive as you described and created one. The system responded saying copy made to external drive. When I checked no clip was copied to the XBoxCaptureCopies folder BUT I noticed a GameDVR folder and that is where the clips had been stored. When I tried to play via Window Media Player it failed saying I needed to purchase the correct Codex, thats another issue.

4. As mentioned the external 1TB drive is my laptop back up with 865MB free. I have a seperate games backup drive but I was reluctant to use that as I was not sure if the backup app would format the drive before use.

Did some further testing

Made a clip after setting external drive as capture. The Clip was saved to the GameDVR folder. It appears when you select multiple files to copy they all try and go to the XBoxCaptureCopies folder whereas captures made at the time go to the GameDVR folder. Very confusing.

Hope this is helpful.

The Xbox Series S/X has 3 USB ports, just like the Xbox One. From the sound of it, you have the Xbox 360 S. If that is the case, the 2tb drive you own will work, only if the drive is a USB 3.0/3.1 drive. Please note, the only games that will work on the
drive will be 0g Xbox games. Xbox 360 games & Xbox One games. Any series S/X games will have to be stored on the consoles own storage, which includes the consoles external SSD.

Games can be stored on external drives. No need to keep redownloading anything. Store Series X/S games on external drive and then transfer to internal drive when wanting to play.

I thought the X had been designed to "only" work with the designated Seagate 1TB drive (the one that costs £250 or whatever it is)

No, not quite. Series X|S games can only run from internal or expansion card, but Xbox One games can still play directly from USB 3.0 mechanical drives or SATA SSD's with USB adaptors.

You can Store Series X games on external USB drives, but you can't run them there.