External Hard drive.

Anybody know of a good website to buy an external hard drive. Was hoping microsoft would have some for sale but they don't.

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External hard drive choices

So what external hard drive do you recommend?

This article reviews HDD, SSD and a Hybrid
The Xbox One hard drive upgrade guide • Eurogamer.net

They think this one is overall best option Toshiba HDTB120EK3CA Basics 2TB USB 3.0 2.5 Inch Hard Drive - Black:Amazon.co.uk:Computers & Accessories

Thoughts?

 

Hard Drive Storage Limit

if adverts for "compatible" external hard drives are any indication it would seem the external storage patch should be coming some time soon although I note it wont be in the first patch released.

Xbox One 1TB Portable Hard Drive by DIGISTOR™-DIG-82153

 

Newegg is good but anymore its hard to beat Amazon prices. You can usually get Seagate 3TB drives on there for about 100 bucks, 2TB hover around the 70-80 dollar mark.

 

Yeah I was looking on amazon I saw a 5t for $100 roughly

 

Just be sure its a 3.5 desktop external, not one of those smaller portable ones since they use laptop drives which are slower 5400 RPMs

 

A 5,400 RPM drive will still work fine. The one in the console itself is 5,400 RPM. It's not just RPM that affects the read/write speeds either. Areal density also makes a difference.

I've got a 2.5" Seagate Backup Fast Plus, which is actually 2 x 2.5" drives in Raid 0. It offers write speeds of around 240 MB/s and read speeds of around 185 MB/s, which is faster than the majority of 3.5" drives on the market.

If you don't plan on carrying the drive around and you don't mind plugging it into a power socket, then 3.5" is a better option though.

 

I have no reason to carry and external hard drive with me. So it seems from the last few posts it's Seagate Externals are the way to go.

 

I use HGST externals with my PC, which rate very highly in reliability tests and are also nice and fast. While Seagate have some solid drives with low failure rates, a couple of theirs have terrible failure rates, so make sure you avoid those. Have a look
here: -

www.backblaze.com/.../best-hard-drive

For instance, the Seagate Barracuda 7200.14 has a 1 year failure rate of 43%, which is terrible. I don't know if that drive is used in their externals.

 

the link is dead keep getting a error.html.

 

It didn't copy and paste properly for some reason. Try this: -

www.backblaze.com/.../best-hard-drive

 

Here is the one I'm seeing this should last maybe a year hopefully

www.amazon.com/.../ref=sr_1_19

 

Chances are you'll be good with that one. It seems that Seagate had issues with particular models, not with all of their drives. No 5TB drives are mentioned in the study I linked to.

I would expect it to last a lot longer than a year, but it comes with a 2 years manufacturer warranty anyway, so you can get it replaced if it fails in the first 2 years.