The debate about how to use external storage and gaming -- need your guys input

I was a bit iffy about getting an external drive because of comments like Randver's. Combine that with the fact that I rent a lot of my games, which means a lot of them are only temporary installs and my internal isn't... wasn't... anywhere close to being
full.

I decided to go ahead and get one for Christmas, simply because I know my internal will eventually get near full... and for the fact someone mentioned earlier, that the OS is on the internal so why not put a large part of the 'work' on a removable drive.

In any case, I decided to go small and not overly expensive, but not cheap/no name. I've seen a few posts in here about the WD My Passport drives, so I decided to try one out. I got the 1tb Ultra (metal edition) since I figured metal would help dissipate
the heat Randver has mentioned often more effectively.

BTW @Randver, the drive did get pretty warm while transferring games, but not anything I'd be overly concerned with unless it would run that warm all the time. It does not, however. I do keep it out in the open on the same end table my X1 sits on, there
are no shelves above, nothing but the open air of the room around it. On a typical gaming night, it only feels a bit warmer than the ambient temp of the room. My typical gaming nights go 5ish hours, almost every night. So far, so good, in my case. Everything
seems to be working fine with it. I guess time will tell how long it lasts since it's pretty new, but TBH... from what I've seen (and felt) so far... if it did fail due to heat, I'd be a bit surprised considering my experience with it so far...

One side note. Just an odd little observation I made. I only moved games to the external. I left all apps on the internal, just to see if there would be any notable differences and I did notice something with TMCC. When it was still installed on the internal
drive (along with The Halo Channel), it would generally take a bit longer to load, when accessing a terminal in SP. It wasn't a huge difference, but it was enough for me to notice that The Halo Channel did load up more quickly while playing the game.

I have only 18GB free left on my 500GB Xbox 1 console and have 14 games YT Skype and IE on it. Only about 380GB of the HDD is useable.

However I might think about getting 2 1TB Seagate Slim portable HDD's. Seagate is a big brand in NZ/Australia and the slim HDD looks not too bulky. I'd get one for my Xbox 1 console and one for my PC since I have over 100GB of video files on my HP Pavilion
dv6 W7 intel core i5 320GB HDD computer.

As for the transfer though, is it better to store games on your 5400rpm consoles HDD or is USB 3.0 fast enough? Does anyone know exactly how high the transfer rate is with the USB 3.0 ports on the Xbox 1 console?

I ran out of HD space on my xbox 360, and installed a larger gig hard drive in the console itself. Is this also possible with xbox one?

Pretty much all points above are valid. I wanted to add that games generally perform better (load times) from external. Most portable ready to go drives are 5400-5900 RPM, if you wan 7200 RPM you will need to buy your own HD and enclosure, but it's how
you will get the best performance (other than SSD).

Dufful is correct. The difference is how each are cooled.

Internals are open and in a case with a fan. Most externals are in small cases designed to be portable rather than being concerned about keeping them cool.

There are external options where cooling has been taken into consideration or even a docking station but I'm not sure how the One OS views a docking station and if it would work.