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    Why is my Xbox series s not recognising my seagate HDD, it keeps saying signal too weak. I...


    My Xbox series s is not recognising my seagate external hard drive, I’ve run SeaTools diagnostic, I’ve done soft factory reset on console. The console says signal too weak

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    garrdogg, Feb 11, 2023
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  2. Onyx Is Here Win User

    Why is my Xbox series s not recognising my seagate HDD, it keeps saying signal too weak. I purchased a new usb 3.0 cable and have done soft reset on console but still no success

    Hello Garrdogg, sorry to hear you're having trouble with your drive.

    Can you please try a different USB port for the drive to see if that helps? It couldn't hurt to try the drive on a different console to rule out the possibility the issue may be with the drive itself.
  3. Tezzerrific Win User

    External Storage

    it may say xbox on it but it is a standard seagate usb 3 hdd same as the playstation one too, these were for the xbox one not the series x/s consoles. you can run all xbox 360 bc and xbox one games from it but the supposedly "enhanced versions" require the faster drive.
  4. Nursemorph Win User

    Next gen storage

    Let me help you on Amazon a 12 terabyte seagate internal HDD is 279 for a PC, while also on Amazon a 1 terabyte seagate “memory card” is 200 for the Xbox series S/X. Now that I’ve done your research for you still think it’s a fair price? Or let me put it into a better point a 1 terabyte seagate HDD for a PC on Amazon is at most 80 bucks.
    You are not comparing like-for-like..you are comparing old technology to new technology...it would be like saying a 4k UHD movie disc should not be £25 because a normal Blu-Ray is only £5. The Seagate External Series S/X SSD is not a HDD...those things in comparison are pitifully slow. This drive would be a rough equivalent of the Expansion card and has an RRP of £200:

    https://smile.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-FireCuda-Internal-Solid-State/

    And no-one says you have to buy the Expansion card...you can store Series X/S games on a normal drive, you just can't run them from a normal HDD due to the slow speeds of the HDD.

    To compare, the drive I listed above has a read speed of 7300 megabytes per second; A Seagate Barracuda 1TB drive has a read speed of 210 megabytes per second. There is a vast difference between the drives....Series S/X games simply wouldn't run at all well on a normal HDD...frankly, Xbox One games were slow on the HDDs in Xbox One consoles (my One X is painfully slow compared to the Series X)
  5. Vodder Win User

    Seagate 2TB External Hard drive not giving a format option on Xbox One

    I had the same issue with my Seagate "USB 3.0" drive...tried everything you mentioned, I ended up buying another caddie from Amazon and putting the HDD in that, worked straight away! Can only think the chipset Seagate use isn't recognised by the Xbox as
    USB 3.0 or something.
  6. ngocphi Win User

    Xbox Series S

    Yes but not for series s enhanced ones or.patched games

    You would.need.the seagate nvme card for series x/s

    Normal usb hdd drives can only be used on bc titles
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