ONE X instant on downloads problem with external hdd

That's actually not true that Instant-On downloads are always slow. I'm downloading most of my content while in Instant-On and it takes just couple of hours to fully download big games.

That being said, I encountered the same issue that MrBungle06 is talking about after I purchased external HDD and set it as default. In Instant-On it barely downloads anything and I have no idea why.

Can I ask you, what external HDD are you exactly using? Myself, I'm using HGST Touro S 1TB 7200RPM. It works perfectly when I play games installed on it, and also speeds of transferring data between internal and external drives seem fine, and installing
games from discs or downloading while the console is fully powered on is nice and smooth, it's just messed up when it goes into Instant-On.

I can tell the HDD is spinning while in Instant-On, but maybe, I don't know, it's getting less power or something?

If you have an external HDD or SSD directly on your console. At least with the XBOX One X it helped me to put the external drive further away and I had no login problems with my Wi-Fi

There is a known problem with USB3 and the WLAN chip of the XBOX One X. This may also apply to the XBOX One S

I'm having the same issue with external hdd 2TB WD (it also have own power supply). I uncheked "turn off storage when xbox turned off", but downloads still not downloading. But if you turn off Xbox, of course i've it on instant mode, and then unplug and
plug back usb from external hdd it starts downloading. This is probably the last of what I can do to starts downloading. I hope they will fix it.

I have a quick question for anyone who might know.

I decided to get the digital version of DAI, since it was on special. Have my external HDD as the default install drive.

I decided to do it during the day, so it would be ready for later. So I turned on the console, set it to 'instant on' (it's usually in energy saver) so that I could just start the download and then turn off the console and let it download in the background.
Problem was, when I turned off the console, the download stopped, even though it was set to instant on.

I have the console set to 'turn off external storage when the console is off'. So the question is; Did I need to change that setting so that it leaves the HDD on as well, or is it just that you can't download and install a game to an external HDD with the
console off? Thanks for any help... will be nice to know for the next time I need to do a background DL.

BTW, I got a WD My Passport Ultra: Metal Edition 1tb drive. Pretty nice for the price and seems to work well.

I believe you can have up to 16tb of external space on the X1 and 2 external connected at once.

So I believe to get the max external HDD space you need 2 x 8tb external HDD

i have a 5tb external on my One

And on topic, you can have , at most, 2 x 32gb flash drives plugged in at once.