Would this Seagate Xbox HDD game drive be usable on PC for storage of pictures?

You get an external hard drive that has usb 3.0 or better and connect it then go to settings and set it under storage to be formatted by the xbox for games. It wont be usable for capturing game clips while it's used for this.

I would suggest a solid state drive if money isnt a factor as they are faster (and safer for data). They do cost a bit more than standard HDD's but they really do make a difference. Seagate is often considered one of the best brands for reliability and performance
but if when you look it is twice the price for the same size external drive then I wouldn't personally pay the extra for it. (This goes for solid state or normal HDD's).

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No, the storage needs to be directly attached to the xbox via the USB ports.it will also format the drive for game storage and won't be usable on a PC after that without reformatting.

HDD's will never beat the raw speed power. SSD's can start up a PC in 10 seconds. HDD's take 2 minutes easily to do this, and then once you reach the desktop, it spends another 2 minutes for the apps and stuff to finish loading. SSD's also are at least 3x
faster at saving and loading stuff compared to HDD.

However regarding a good External HDD for Xbox, I'd recommend Seagate. I got two Seagate 1TB Slim HDD. 1 for Xbox 1 additional storage for games (game file sizes on Xbox 1 are kwazy, COD is 40GB, Forza 5 is 35GB). The other one I use to back up my PC files
(pictures, videos, word documents). Seagate offers a 2 year warranty on their external HDD's (well at least the ones I got). My custom desktop PC uses a Samsung EVO 850 1TB SSD which Samsung offers a 5 year warranty on.

It depends how much of a gamer you are. If you have less than 18 Xbox 1 games, depending on the games, your console internal storage and a single 1TB HDD should be enough. If you have 20-25 games, a 2TB would be more better. Samsung and Seagate are reputable
brands. You wouldn't want to buy from some cheap dodgy brand though. The better brands may be more expensive, but will normally be better quality and last longer since such companies tend to have higher standards.

Well no it can store.the games but only 2 units can play drives sx

That's Seagate and western digital storage cards

NO hdd would be fast enough you are talking about 12x the speed the difference not a couple mbps

500mbps vs 4.8gbps

Any game drive would.be for xbox one STORAGE and play

You are going to.run into this .problem with any next gen console

Hdds don't have gbps access to memory gpu or cpu

the 8TB Game Drive Hub made by Seagate works really well, but if you can find an SSD External drive it would be better but it will cost more. The Seagate I referred to is HDD but it works fine.