Slow response from external hard drive when playing games

Hi,

I've noticed recently that games that I've got installed to my external hard drive (Seagate STBV5000200 Expansion 5TB) sometimes respond slowly
during play, and that this usually coincides with a 'whirring' noise coming from the hard drive itself, as well as the light on the hard drive going off and on briefly. This only ever happens when some sort of loading is taking place - whether it's a proper
loading screen or, for instance, accessing the inventory in the Resident Evil remake - and the additional delay is usually around three or four seconds. Such occurrences never happen when playing games installed on the internal hard drive.

Is this normal, or is there a problem with my external hard drive?

:)

 

More than just a gaming console

Hi all, new to forum, need to ask about external hard drives. We have the slim 360 250gb model. Now say I am up to about level 5 in a game and I want to go to a mates place and he has the same game.

Will any external hard drive be able to be connected to the USB port on the back of my Xbox and the my profile or game level downloaded to the drive, then I can just take the drive to avmates place, plug in and play when he puts the game disk in. Will i still be on the same level and then when I return home, can I download the level I amat from my mates onto my hard drive.....

If so what external hard drive would be the best and if not what do you recommend.

Cheers

 

External hard drive problems

I was playing Xbox one evening and my console froze, so I restarted and tried playing again, most of my games were installed on my external hard drive. I tried playing every game I had on my external hard drive and none would start.

I completely reset my console and external hard drive, i installed games on my internal hard drive and they all work, but the games I installed on my external hard drive still do not work.