Xbox Series | Will 2 Externals & 1 SSD Expansion Slot All Work At The Same Time

You cannot use an external drive for series X games even a USB 3.1 SSD is too slow.

You have to use an M2 MVME and it has to be a 3rd gen.

It plugs into the expansion card slot not the USB port.

Hi,

There are two drives, with some different capacity options

Seagate Xbox Series X|S Expansion Card

https://www.seagate.com/products/gaming-drives/xbox-gaming/storage-expansion-for-xbox-series-x/

Western Digital WD_BLACK C50 Xbox Series X|S Expansion card

https://www.westerndigital.com/products/external-drives/wd-black-c50-expansion-card-for-xbox-ssd

Thank you so much for your time in this. My external SSD is a Seagate Halo version made for Xbox, and has those logos on it, as my Xbox Series X is also of the Halo version release. I'm not getting a code. The Ext., HD went yellow and does not show in my (settings: system: storage devices) as it always has. It is not the card that goes in the card that goes in the (storage expansion slot)

I assume you're talking about the official Seagate expansion card and not an external SSD, if you are then from what I understand yes you can, the expansion car is "hot swappable", what this means is that you won't have to switch the consoles off before plugin the card in.

This link tells you all you'll need to know.

Xbox Reveals Good News About Series X SSD Expansion Cards (gamerant.com)

The biggest difference is that if you want to play the Series X/S version of games they must be installed on the internal SSD or the Seagate SSD Expansion card. They cannot be installed on an external USB 3.0 drive, Quick Resume will also not work with any external USB drive. Previous generation games can still be launched from an external drive.

Personally I have the Seagate expansion SSD and prefer the speed and convenience it offers knowing that no matter what I'm installing the best version of the game and able to use all the enhancements that comes from playing on a Series X. It's worth noting that for the price, it's not much more that some of the high performances SSDs available for PC but it is definitely not cheap.