External Hard Drive Xbox Series S

Discus and support External Hard Drive Xbox Series S in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; I keep everything in my living plugged into a power strip that I turn of at the end of each day. Since I have purchased the wd black p10 drive for my... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by Bluegengar7091, Jan 12, 2024.

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    External Hard Drive Xbox Series S


    I keep everything in my living plugged into a power strip that I turn of at the end of each day. Since I have purchased the wd black p10 drive for my series s, whenever I turn on that surge protector the drive is entering what seems like an idle state even with the console off. The drive is spinning but the power indicator light is not on until I actually turn the Xbox on.

    I have all of my power settings set to power saving. What could be causing this drive to activate when the console is off as soon as I turn on my surge protector

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    Bluegengar7091, Jan 12, 2024
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  2. Smwutches Win User

    External storage

  3. Obsessive Power Win User

    External hard drive not working

    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.
  4. danielmelgoza2 Win User

    External storage

    So if i buy a external storage hard drive for an xbox one and use it on the series s it will run just as good as the one designed for the series s and seriesx?
  5. William Splawn Win User

    Why will games not go to the download queue and download on my Xbox series s.

    It was not a bad previous idea. I do not have an external hard drive for my Xbox one series S.
  6. Obsessive Power Win User

    The new expansion card for Xbox Series X

    Hi,

    Current external hard drives are USB 3.0 5,400 RPM mechanical hard drives. These drives are very slow compared to the Expansion card. You won't be able to run Series X/S games from current external hard drives, not even the 2.5" external SSD drives either.
    But, you will be able to archive your Series X/S games to these drives to save downloading again.

    The expansion card can run all compatible Xbox games. Which will be Series X/S, Xbox One and the BC Xbox 360 and original Xbox games on the BC list.

    Xbox One and other Backwards compatible games will load a lot faster on either the internal storage or the expansion card than they would if you ran them off your external hard drive.

    Microsoft has a video on YouTube showing 'The Outer Worlds' loading in just 11 seconds on a Series X/S SSD, compared to nearly 60 seconds on Xbox One.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_wCX0n9Jci4
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