My seagate hard drive wont let me play sreies x optimised games.

Just add, you can also get a Western Digital Expansion Card as well. https://www.westerndigital.com/en-g...sion-card-for-xbox-ssd?sku=WDBMPH5120ANC-WCSN

No hdd would ever run fast enough for those games

Not to mention they aren't designed for them

You are talking sbiut 12x the difference in speed

500mbps vs 4.8gbps the hdd controller wouldnt know what to do with the games

Nvme and storage cards 16paths to cpu gpus and memory

Not with a 500.mbps usb hdd

Hi Bloodlusthonour, my name is Rodrigo. I'm an Independent Advisor and a member of the Microsoft community and I'd love to assist you today.

I am sorry to hear that.

Hard drives won't be able to launch Xbox Series X games, only store them.

For that, you need your internal storage or the Seagate Storage Expansion Card: https://www.xbox.com/accessories/hard-drives/seagate-expansion-card

Hi,

If your game is now a Series X optimised title, it can no longer be played off an external hard drive. It must be moved to either the internal storage or an optional expansion card.

External USB hard drives are too slow to play Series X optimised games. None Series X games will still run from your external drive. The internal storage in the Series X is a fast NVME SSD. These drives are several times faster than mechanical hard drives.

You can set it so that games optimised for the Series X/S are downloaded to the internal storage automatically, if that helps. Go to Settings - System - Storage devices - Change installation locations and you can change the settings there.

I dunno why there's no warning, but yeah; games optimised for Series X/S consoles can only be run from the internal SSD or a Seagate expansion card, not a regular external hard drive.