What external hard drive can i buy to satisfy the series x games having to be played on the...

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.

Hi,

No, sorry it won't work. The USB ports on the Series X|S are USB 3.1 which have a maximum speed of 500MB/s. This means, no matter what drive you buy, no matter what speed it's rated at, you're stuck at the max speed of the USB port.

The only drives that can be used for Series X|S games are either the internal or the storage expansion card.

I have the Expansion card for my Series X. I also have an external 2TB USB SSD in an enclosure. I can only use the external SSD for Xbox One games. They do load a lot faster than a mechanical hard drive, but I can't play my Series X games off it.

Yes but none of the hdd you mentioned would work as they domt even come close

The max you have there is 500mbps

Which is 12 x less then that is needed

4.8gbps

The one wd drive or Seagate drive that smwutches mentioned would work as they run on the nvme hotswappable slot on the series s/x

Next gen games require direct access to cpu gpu and memory which storage card and the internal memory has 16 paths to be exact at 4.8gbps

Your drives require a BUS master and has a max of 500mbps

They would actually require one of the expansion cards made for Xbox https://www.xbox.com/en-US/accessories/hard-drives/seagate-expansion-card (Western Digital makes one too)

What about the games that I currently have stored on my external hard drive? Will I be able to use that on my Series X to play those games? Or will I have re download them on the Series X?