Why is my Xbox X Series installing the same game on 2 drives?

Hi,

Your drive will work the same on Series X as it does on Xbox One and you won't need to format it.

However, Series X games or Xbox One games with Series X enhancements will not run from that drive and will either need to be installed internally or to an external SSD designed for Series X/S.

Your hard drive will be too slow for Series X games. They can be stored there, but not run from there.

Not really...

Xbox Series X games / upgrades / updates has to be installed onto the Series X internal or expansion card SSD,

You can have Xbox One games on your external hard drive that will get an Series X upgrade but the games will need to be transferred to the Series X and then the Series X upgrade will need to be downloaded onto the Series X SSD,

As an example...

I have Marvel Avengers on my external hard drive that will get the Series X upgrade and I will transfer the game over to the Series X SSD ready to download and update the game to the Series X version when available.

Hi,

Do you still have your Xbox One and does your external hard drive still work on that console?

I have successfully connected both my Seagate 'Game Drive' and my external SSD USB 3.0 drives to my Series S without any problems. All my installed games show up fine.

The Series X/S supports the same external drives as the Xbox One/S/X support. If your drive isn't being detected it's probably become corrupted or has a hardware issue.

I was under the understanding that when you download an Xbox series x game it has different code, so it wouldn't be possible on xbox one x. Which would also be the same for the hard drive. The xbox series x game is apparently different than the same game
for the series x.

The cost is there for a reason

Any bluray external drive would.be more then 200 bucks as its a faster then normal drive

Also you have gpu and cpu differences

And there is a reason why there is no feature to use an external drive and its the biggest reason why it cant be done

The s series uses a 512gig drive so your space is restricted to 1.5gigs max even with the decompression chip

https://www.trustedreviews.com/news/gaming/xbox-series-x-vs-xbox-series-s-4025797

Is a good article about differences

And another big difference is the ram allocated

There isnt much room to install bluray install files and installation

This is by design

When the xbox servers see your console it will give you a less sizable installation due to lack X features to decrease the size significantly

And yes thats the difference