Does the Xbox series x/s Seagate 1TB expansion card count as external hard drive space

Xbox Series X|S games can only be installed on the console's internal storage or the external Seagate SSD card. Link here. External drives are too slow for those games. The external hard drive can only be used to install backward compatible games (Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One).

Hi,

External hard drives are not fast enough for Xbox Series X|S titles. Unfortunately you can't play these games off slow USB external hard drives. They need either be installed internally or to an optional Xbox Series X|S Expansion card.

Xbox Series X|S games can not be run from USB storage devices. These drives are too slow for Series X|S games, regardless of them being on Game Pass or not.

Series X|S games can only be played on either the Internal SSD, a Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X|S or the WD_BLACK C50 Expansion Card for Xbox

This is what the expansion card is - https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/hard-drives/seagate-expansion-card

Series S/X games will only work on the internal or an expansion card. If you use a regular external hard drive, they will not run.

Does any seagate external hdd work because I’m not paying nearly 400$ for the one specifically for series I’d just buy a pc at that point and get just as much

No external hard drives will play Series X|S optimised games. You need either the Expansion card from Seagate or from the WD BLack Expansion card that has just recently been released from Western Digital. The 1TB WD expansion card is around $150 according to the US Amazon website.

To get PC gaming specs up to even the lower powered Series S hardware we're talking spending at least $800. So even these expensive expansion cards work out cheaper.

The fundamental technology behind mechanical hard drives date back to the 1970's. Their time is nearly up. SSD is the future.