Where xbox saves the video captures?

Yes, I know it does a time loop, in the end it is a 30 second or one minute video that is constantly overwritten, the issue is where it is saved. In the external disk I have already bought that it does not do it, although you choose it for it the "loop" is not done in that disk, it is only recorded in that disk when you choose to save a video or a photo. My concern of the loop is that it is done on the internal ssd, and that drastically reduces its lifespan, that's the problem. And I would also like to be able to choose that by hitting the button I can save screenshots without having to have the looping video theme active. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)

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Don't worry about the life of the SSD.
The current SSDs life much more than before, just to make a comparison:

"The 1TB model of the Samsung 850 EVO series, which is equipped with the low-priced TLC storage type, can expect a life span of 114 years"
Source: https://www.compuram.de/blog/en/the-life-span-o....

You can expect the same life span or even more.

The only way to kill an SSD in the "short-term" is if you write couple terabytes everyday. And even if you do that , it's not guaranteed that the internal SSD dies

Now, about your main question. Probably the clip is stored in the RAM (but there is no way to know this specific thing because as far as I know Microsoft didn't shared yet how feature works)

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for the instant record now function it basically records in a loop to temp files which are overwritten, it does not record multiple files continuously. I would not worry too much, just look if you have no external, it does the same to the internal ssd.

Hi,

To see where your captures are saved, open the Xbox App, select Settings, and then select Game DVR. Under Saving captures, select Open folder to see your captures in File Explorer.

By default, game clips and screenshots are saved in your Videos folder, in a folder named
Captures. This can be moved to different places on your PC, including elsewhere on your hard drive or to external drives. Your Windows 10 PC saves the default storage to where the Captures folder is created.

For more information, feel free to visit this
link.

Regards.

it is when it saves the recording to file from temp, also it has to initiate the drive where it saves too and this causes a spike while accessing IO, try shadowplay as it is less resource hungry and works a lot better and you get a solid video capture and screenshot capture.