Seagate external, quick question

Just brought one and works great but it's the one with its own power supply. Checked the box under settings that says turn storage off but notice it stays on all the time. Is it okay to leave this bad boy plug in or should I unplug it when I tell my xbox
to turn off? Thanks

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External Hard Drive. Power Saving Mode

I have a quick question. I have a Seagate 2TB external drive for my XBOX one. I noticed that the drive doesn't have a power switch, but a power saving mode can be turned on using the Seagate software. Once the XBOX is turned off I would like to see
the external Seagate hard drive power down to save the life of the drive. The gaming system is used about 10 hours a week and to have the drive spinning all the time doesn't seem right. Wondering if the XBOX tells the drive to spin down after powering off. If
anyone could shed some light I would appreciate it. Thanks!

 

Xbox One External Hard drive

Is the Seagate Backup Plus PORTABLE external drive too slow for the XB1?

Seagate sells the 4TB Xbox Game Drive. This drive looks very similar to its cousin the 4TB Seagate Backup Plus PORTABLE (and I write portable in caps because Seagate also sells the Backup Plus that is a bigger 3.5" external drive that needs external power while the portable model is driven by power from the USB 3 port itself).

When I got the drive I proceeded to format it on the XB1 and downloaded Gears of War 4 to it. The game launched without any problem but the music stuttered. I found this very strange and proceeded to move the game from the external drive to the internal on the XB1 and there the music and everything worked perfectly.

Has anyone tested one of the Seagate Backup Plus Portable drives on the XB1 for storing games on them? What are your results? I found this article on storagereview and it appears that the Xbox Game Drive is indeed a little faster on sequential read speeds than the Seagate Backup Plus Slim 2TB on the syntetic tests:
Seagate Game Drive For Xbox Review | StorageReview.com - Storage Reviews.
I would love to read some real use experiences.
Thank you.

 

If I remember correctly, there is an option in one of the setting sub menus to get it to power down the external storage when the xbox is turned off

 

I did that under the settings section, I'm wondering if it won't shut down because I got my xbox on standby.

 

Yer gonna need it on if anthing is going to download on remotely.

 

Isn't this option for USB powered drives?

 

If you plug it into the pc and download the Seagate dashboard there is a setting that allows you to turn off after a certain amount of hours. I have the Seagate Backup Plus 2TB usb3.0 ext hdd. I have my xbox one console on stand-by also so when it shuts
down the ext hdd will still on 5 or 10 sec longer then turn off. Yours should do the same.