External HD causing cinematic stuttering?

Discus and support External HD causing cinematic stuttering? in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; So here's a question to those with external HDs. Had a 1TB Seagate Expansion HD for a few years, worked great. Got a 4TB Seagate Expansion HD (not the... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by Industrial Arts, Oct 21, 2016.

  1. Industrial Arts
    Industrial Arts Guest

    External HD causing cinematic stuttering?


    So here's a question to those with external HDs. Had a 1TB Seagate Expansion HD for a few years, worked great. Got a 4TB Seagate Expansion HD (not the XB1 branded one) and downloaded a lot of my library and transferred most of my internal drive to it.

    I noticed on Hitman and Borderlands 2, cinematics were stuttering running on the 4TB drive. I moved both to the 1TB external and no issues.

    Anyone had this issue? Did I possibly get a bad drive? I even swapped the cables they used to see if the 4TB had a bum cable and still it had laggy cinematics on the 4TB. I heard from one person that the larger the USB drive, the worse the performance and I
    should just transfer stuff I'm not using to the 4TB and use the 1TB for all my primary play stuff. Is that necessarily a bad idea?

    :)
     
    Industrial Arts, Oct 21, 2016
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  2. FREEDOM COBRA 1
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    Controller desyncing and Xbox Live disconnecting.

    I disabled every machine that could be causing the problem and it's still occurring. I then moved every thing on to an External HD and restored factory defaults, no change. Any more ideas?
     
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  3. RoMoGAMER
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    Can't load up my Xbox 360 Dashboard!

    Power down the console.Remove all external devices. USB storage, HD Kinect , etc. Reconnect one of them, reboot the console and check to see if the dashboard will load. Repeat this process with each device one at a time to see if any of these is the causing
    the problem.
     
    RoMoGAMER, Oct 21, 2016
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  4. Internet Expert
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    External HD causing cinematic stuttering?

    If there's no cinematic stuttering when the affected games are on your 1TB external HDD and your internal Xbox One HDD, then there is likely something wrong with your new 4TB drive.

    I'd consider transferring your content back to the original destinations and replacing the 4TB drive.

    Through my personal experiences, getting the largest drives currently available can have a relatively higher chance of failure.
     
    Internet Expert, Oct 23, 2016
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  5. fresh1-EBEE8179-6738-47DD-ABAD-BDD1CD324319
    fresh1-EBEE8179-6738-47DD-ABAD-BDD1CD324319 Guest
    I'm having the same issue with the 4tb seagate but I'm also losing sound..i noticed playing Gears of War 4 & Titanfall 2. The background music drops out constantly and the voices also, only the sound effects are constant. my 1tb Touro external never had
    any issues.. I'm wondering if its the Seagate hard drive itself not being 7200rpm like the Touro was..
     
    fresh1-EBEE8179-6738-47DD-ABAD-BDD1CD324319, Oct 31, 2018
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  6. Internet Expert Win User

    External HD causing cinematic stuttering?

    If there's no cinematic stuttering when the affected games are on your 1TB external HDD and your internal Xbox One HDD, then there is likely something wrong with your new 4TB drive.

    I'd consider transferring your content back to the original destinations and replacing the 4TB drive.

    Through my personal experiences, getting the largest drives currently available can have a relatively higher chance of failure.
  7. fresh1-EBEE8179-6738 Win User

    External HD causing cinematic stuttering?

    I'm having the same issue with the 4tb seagate but I'm also losing sound..i noticed playing Gears of War 4 & Titanfall 2. The background music drops out constantly and the voices also, only the sound effects are constant. my 1tb Touro external never had
    any issues.. I'm wondering if its the Seagate hard drive itself not being 7200rpm like the Touro was..
  8. NonSportsGirl Win User

    USB 3.0 Rosewill RX-358 External Harddrive with Witcher 3 - stuttering and garbled audio/dialogue

    [quote user="RippenHara"]The very first cinematic Stutters to hell scratch.[/quote]That cinematic stutters a lot on the PC version too. Seems to be a problem for some users no matter the platform.
  9. THE IMMORTAL D Win User

    Framerate issues on Communications level

    so the HD is whats cause the game to stutter and freeze?
  10. John Dowding Win User

    USB 3.0 Rosewill RX-358 External Harddrive with Witcher 3 - stuttering and garbled audio/dialogue

    Gotta say I didn't have any stuttering on the first cinematic. It was awesome with a capital A.
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