These consoles should have come with at least 2tb storage. MADNESS. The previous gen seemed like they came with limited storage!!

Most honest non biased reviewer on KZfaq by far!!! Thanks for always showing the pros and the cons!!

This dude has me actually considering a series S over the X.

This is exactly what I needed. I knew there were options and couldn’t decide which. Thank you for helping me to the route I thought I needed to with the 5TB 😊

Just upgraded my xbox one to the series s and was stuck on how my seagate 4T wouldn't play X|S games...then BOOM. Your vid showed and and explained it so perfectly I wasn't mad anymore. Thanks brother. Saved me a headache.

I use an ssd and honestly yeah I feel like an external storage option is better than the expansion cards which are honestly really overpriced

Well... I bought the series S 2 weeks ago, on a black friday deal for 199€... 2 days later I saw the seagate 1Tb expansion on sale for 90€!!! Since I would have to buy an external drive, didn't think twice and bought the expansion card! I think I made a preety good deal!✌️

bro is answering all of my questions about the external storage! cheers!

The 5tb you have posted in the link is on sale for 110 at this current moment in time. Huge steal you actually saved me.

Beautiful explained so I could understand exactly what the product does as when I brought it I was under the assumption that you could play all the games off the external storage this isn’t the case 10/10 for explaining this bro

Yeah I have a 2TB mechanical hard drive hooked up to my Series X that is currently 97% full, so during Boxing Week I plan to go out and buy a 5TB drive and move the contents of the 2TB drive on to it and then use that 2TB drive on my Series S in the spare room. Both consoles will benefit!

I have a small and fast external SSD for back-compat games, *AND* a large (yet slow) HDD for storing games that I'm not currently playing (but don't want to delete). Like chocolate and peanut butter, they're two great things that work great together! The external SSD is about 4x faster, which isn't a small difference for me. And going for only a small SSD kept the price of the combination down.

Very concise and explanatory. Subscribed 💯

Thank you. This was very helpful!

Two more things to consider when picking between an external SSD or HDD, SSDs are going to be more durable. HDDs have gotten a lot more durable over time but there are still moving parts on the inside that can be jolted out of place from a bad drop or just moving it around with the console. SSDs have no moving parts so at least for me the piece of mind that I can throw my drive into my bag and not worry about it is really important. Transfer speeds and consistency. The difference in speeds honestly won't be huge since they'll both be limited by the USB 3 port, but an SSD will have a higher speed much more consistently, and won't slow down as more games are stored on it. HDDs can slow down a lot as they get closer to full, with a 5TB though I doubt anyone will get there quickly, but that is still a factor that SSDs just don't have to worry about. Honestly I didn't even know 5TB hard drives had gotten so cheap, that's about half the price from back when I built my computer originally and as I'm planning my next build now that info is extremely helpful. For an Xbox however, everyone will have different needs but personally I'd feel much better getting a 2TB or so external SSD and probably even velcro mounting it to the console. The 5TB drive would still be a great deal but I know I'd never use that much storage, so the benefits of an SSD just outweigh the bargain here lol. Great video!

Just came across this video not knowing the difference between all the storage option and this video just smashed my confusion out the window I now know exactly what I need🤣 Thanks bro👊🏽

I just bent over for Microsoft and took 2, 2 TB SeaGate expansion cards..... I don't truly agree with the price but seeing that it's a small and fast storage device for series X/S console I figured it'll be better on the long run. I still use my old external HD but those are for Xbox One or older Xbox games.

I have an 8TB branded XBox external drive and it is full. It is pretty quick for a spinning disk, but it is not as quite as fast as a USB3 SSD. The prices for SSDs are coming down, but the massive size of games these days still require quite a bit of space that would exponentially shoot up the cost. I am thinking of trying out a 4+ 3.5" USB3.1 Raid Enclosure to see how that pans out. Having 16TB with 4x enterprise 3.5" HDD's can get you about the same speed at least with sequential reads and writes. And faster for more drives. Maybe that can be a topic to explorer on the channel.

Best review so far , simple and complete. May in few years they bring down price or ssd got cheaper as it should be

Great video. Very thorough and informative. Thanks. I just subscribed.

Facts! I just got the new Xbox series with 1TB. It makes a difference

Really helpful, thank you ❤

Super helpful, answered my questions

I usually just transfer the optimize games to external to free up space and transfer whatever game back when I want to play it so I don't have to redownload them. It saves a lot of time and space on the internal drive.

I've got a 4tb external Seagate xbox specific drive. It's been my saviour, as I have 4 kids, and often their cousins and stepbrothers/sisters are often visiting and taking over my series x. So having a huge library of kid friendly and local cooperative/competitive games available without needing to stream at low speed is a massive bonus

I found a wd 1tb external ssd for 90 then got the official 512gb seagate. All new games go to the seagate and everything else goes on the external. In my experience with hdd and ssd the ssd is easily worth the extra money for a bit less space. Only exception being if you really want tons of cold storage.

I just love how you shake the hard drive.

Or you could buy the 1to 2 ssd memory card for the console and get that external hdd for games the don’t require the internal ssd. With that said i went the route you suggested on my ps5 and i only use the 6 tb external hdd for ps4 games. And i plan on getting a ssd to expand my internal storage

Very helpful and informative! Keep it up bro!

Very helpful information.

I have the Seagate 8TB HDD USB Hub with the Green LED. It's awesome. For the capacity and the USB ports gained.

Best option long term for me was buying the Seagate ssd 1tb which was on sale here in the UK last year at £140 and I use an old 4tb WD passport external USB iv had for many years to store the bulk of my games. I really like the Seagate "memory card" style coz it's really portable and doubles my storage. I also use two consoles between my own house and girlfriends house so it's really easy to take my games to both consoles and maintain the original hard drive space on each console.

Great video and advice. Thanks

what a great video ty for uploading

Thank you for information ❤. I did sub you.

this is helpful thank you

I have a 2tb external HDD that I used on my ps4 for cold storage and playing previous gen games the 500gb expansion card that I picked up for 85 UK pounds in a sale.

Thank you my friend your a life saver

In my opinion the best advice it will be the simplest: Could not buy the series x either on launch either now in the 500-510 dollars/ euros: either you buy the series s and the external Seagate with the 1 terabytes capacity, so 530 dollars/ euros and you can manage your installed games or you stay with the series s only you install indie+ triple a games= 5-60 games ( depending the games) or you just download and play the three triple a titles like forza horizon 5+ c.o.d+ other games and when you beat the campaign you uninstall it and replace with the new game.

Better a slot expansion for my series s. Thanks for the explanation 👍

I'm planning to upgrade from the Xbox One A to the Series S or X. I currently use a external hard drive will I need to upgrade it also.

The names of all the items was confusing but by the end I knew what to get. Also you have a lot of charm witch makes you pop out and not blend in with the other videos.

I'm using 1 tb nvme ssd with enclosure, the build cost me around 50+ usd with 2-2.6 Gbps, transferring 100gb games only takes 4-6 minutes max.

6/11/2023 i used a 5 year old ssd that is pcie to usb 3.1 on a series s i bought today. It named it sabrent expansion card when i plugged it in. I am able to play games marked x/s off of an external hard drive with 0 lag

I can install 4 games on my series S, the rest are on my external 4T drive . Exporting or importing games at 1gb/s is good enough, but it would be great to have some more internal storage . Lets say 10T, is that too much to ask ?

What ssd alternatives are there to the seagate as it is extremely overpriced or should i get the p40 wd black

Samsung T7 500gb 3.2 Gen 2 usb SSD you can't go wrong with this little marvel. So far it plays almost all of my stored games in it, except WARZONE 2.0 for some reason. Bf V, BF 1, BF 2042, BF 4, BF hardline, insurgency:sandstorm, GRiD Legends, DiRT 5, DiRT 2, warface, Forza 5 run like a charm on the series S through samsung T7 SSD. Plus a 3.2 Gen 2 usb protocol ensures study data transfer speeds without flactuations even if the usb 3.0 port of the series S is slower...

Timestamps 0:00 - Intro 🎬 0:52 - Only 300 GBs?!?! 😨 2:10 - Wifi Doesnt Slow Your Downloading Speed 🎮 5:05 - Lets Break it Down Simply 🔨 6:30 - CaffeineAndConsoles Reccomendation 👍 7:46 - Bye! ✌️

i dont know why but i love this guy

Thanks man...Im already using 2 2tb external drives anyway with no problems ..I have £100 Amazon gift card and very nearly just got caught out with the 'official xbox ' seagate 2tb 'game drive' £78 wich looks and reads like it's a cheaper alternative and the word 'expansion' is cleverly absent so I just had a look outta curiosity and thats no different from what Im doing anyway..! Very nearly ripped myself off there..

As a girl who is looking for Xmas present for her gamer husband , this helped ALOT !!! Thank you !!!

Would ssd or hdd need a power source? I plan on doing van life, and i need to watch all power consumption.

With the new update I hope you included that the Seagate external SSD hard drive is your only option or Xbox x or s games Xbox One games will be able to be played through USB external storage but Manny Xbox s or x games will not be played on a USB external storage

What about remote play? I am assuming proprietary drive would work with things you have stored for remote play. I do use remote play when away from home.

Got the Series S. Best decision ever! I got an 8TB external and I have tons of games saved on it. Transfer speeds aren’t that bad.

I was a sucker and bought the 512gb ssd memory card for my new series s. Got it for $89.99 which was a bit of a discount i guess. Apex and horizon 5 took up like 250gb themselves so i needed just a bit more

Anybody else just confused during this entire video

I love my series S so much! Question for you…I’m seriously considering getting a PS5 and leaning towards the digital edition. I would love to hear your thoughts. I have an Xbox that I play a lot of cross platform games (COD, etc) on, so I would only be using my PS5 for Sony exclusives and Sony exclusives only. How many Sony exclusive games would you say I could probably fit on the digital edition? Ten? Five? I know that’s a silly question but I’m just curious. I have a 1TB Seagate USB hard drive on my PS4 that I might just port over. I’m also a PS PLUS subscriber. Thanks for any input. PS: I also have a series X and never use the disc drive. I use game pass and if I love a game, I buy the digital. And I only have like 4 physical PS4 games. Most of my PS4 collection is digital. Glad to see your channel is still cooking!

I currently use a USB 3.0 external with my One S to keep games for later so I don't have to download them again. If you are like me and have Comcast, they have a 1TB/month limit before they start charging you more, it's easy to hit if you load up a Xbox and a PC with new games on top of a month of streaming. Moving a game from a external is way faster also.

You're the best expert Sir !

Storage Card for Xbox Series Games (Quick Resume). External SSD for One , 360 and Original games - that I also use for phone and PC backup. Other people already said that the moving parts of HDD will limit the lifetime

You got a new subscriber family

My setup is as follows in a storage tier system Xbox internal and WD Black 1 TB Memory Card are for the Series X/S games External WD Black USB SSD 2 TB is used for Xbox One titles External WD Black USB HDD 4 TB used for overflow and Xbox/Xbox 360 titles Works good for me And there all organized So everything from the present is ready to rock if I take the console anywhere And I just leave behind the the older titles for here

Got the 8tb hard drive from my one x. the 1tb card for my series x. Had the series s but found the x for retail two months later. So I am able to move a lot of games around.

Also i am sure most people own a HDD so you are saving lots of money. I already have a powerful 8TB HDD with 10 minute sometime 15 minute transfer speed and i am okay with that. I will get a seagate in time as things get more optimisted but i am in no rush.

9 months ago this info would've been good to know before I bought an Xbox honestly but otsbqorth it my wife and I can play shebdoesnt play many games but the few we do together is awesome, but I need more space amd this is a good video to learn from

i just got a 1TB ssd for my series s and i love it. the speed is very fast and 1TB is a lot more than some ppl think. but i am a pc player 1st so i don’t need the large amount on my series s. but i totally agree with the hard drive if u only use series s for all ur gaming. the more storage the better

I just got the series s. Downloaded hogwarts, wwe and madden and I’m at 72%. It’s not that bad imo because I usually don’t play more than 2-3 games.

I wish they would advertise the actual usable storage, or at least attempt to make the storage reach the advertised size even with the OS and system files. I do feel like in this day and age the Series S and X should've launched with base models of 1tb with options of 2tb internal storage.

Sadly the best way to do it is to get a series X, Buy a 2TB internal storage SSD, along with a 12tb external.

Wish u coulda linked the products, Great info, thanks!

so many games are available on the cloud now and with a good internet connection run amazingly well there are still loads of great Xbox one games also 360 and original box games that can be run straight off my external I may consider an internal card when the price comes down I'm sure in the future it will but I'm cool for now I love the Series S and it still looks amazing on my 4ktv

2 options now Seagate, and now WD makes a 1TB NvMe drive for the XBox Series X/S and it's only $149 and games can be played right off of it. Plugs into the slot in the back just like the Seagate one.

I’m not sure how it works with moving stuff between the drive and the internal. But for my Internet plan, I’m limited on how much I can download. I have to watch how much I download. The one thing I like about the Seagate expansion card. You could just plug that into a different Xbox and have your games on there.

I bought one that doesn’t let me play games from it I needed this video thank you

I did this even on my xbox one I still use a 2tb hdd for my series s it saves a ton of time

That’s why I brought the sea gate soo I could play it on the drive

You could also use a much larger internal 2230 m.2 SSD and a m.2 cloner to actually upgrade the main SSD

Got the Samsung T7 SSD for my Series S. I don't mind waiting for a few minutes to move games.

Sorry if this was asked before, but how do you guys get around the HDD/SSD/USB port always being on?

What is the brand name that you can play directly off of the external hard drive I'm planning to buy an Xbox then the following month get all the external memory that is needed

Is 4tb needed or can you get a smaller storage amount? Just wondering because I don’t play a lot of games so will I use 4tb of storage or is it worth it just have it incase

Like prime examples Destiny 2 and Forza Horizon5. Destiny 2 was 108gb and Forza Horizon 5 is 154gb, boom and that’s all that’s on my internal hard drive in my Series S. So I went ahead and bought the Seagate 4tb external HDD with all of the Assassin’s Creed games (besides Odyssey and Valhalla), also Kingdom Hearts 3 (soon the Kingdom Hearts 1.5+2.5 games), then I have PGA 2k21, Monster Energy Supercross 4, and all of my apps and other things, and the HDD still has 3.6tb of storage able to be used

I maybe have an intresting question (i gess) if i got some games downloaded on my external driver can i use this games with the option to play them with others divaices like phones do to the Microsoft service

Question is can you use a regular pc external hard rice or does it have to be specific kinds for Xbox to use it

Do you know what really bothered me how the Xbox series X has more storage than the series S, which is a completely digital Consol. You would think that since you need to download pretty much everything on that system you would have more storage.

I’m still so confused I have and external hard drive but all the games I have that I want to play have to be transferred to play them so would I buy the one you recommended?

How long does it take the transfer a game from the HDD to local storage?

The transferring process of games is such a pain in the ass though. Unless you have a large selection of digital Xbox, 360, or Xbox One games that haven't been optimized for Series S then I'd recommend the external HDD/SSD. I just said to hell with it and bought the proprietary memory card, definitely not cheap though.

I'm a new Xbox series S owner and also an 55 year old OG gamer from the Telstar 3-in-1 console days of the early to mid 1970s. First major console was a Sears Tele game console (a Kenmorized Atari 2600). Now I'm m not up on all these new storage technologies, but A manager at a local GameStop who also owned an electronic repair shop told me a model of ssd expansion that was the same as the brand name Seagate and Xbox units . Dummy me didn't write it down because I could just go see him, well he moved out of state so now I am regretting not writing it down. Do any of you good folks know of any generic expansion ssd that is of the same specs and can be bought for much cheaper? Money is an issue I am disabled and can't get around that well from an injury to my spine. Any advice will be greatly appreciated!

How long does it take to transfer 100gb from HDD to your Xbox Series S internal storage?

I really was not able to build my schedule around transferring hard drives. It just takes forever to transfer games external.

My download speed is around 450-500 mbps. I literally have to delete and download every day it's such a pain. I only have enough storage for 2 or 3 games anyways. Nba 2k23 takes up 175 gbs for me and cod takes up like 110gb.

With cloud gaming for many game pass games I don’t feel that the storage is that laughable.

whats cool about it is i have a seagate 5tb for my xbox one and whenever i get a new xbox i can use it on that as well but im still going to get the series x... its only 350

I bought the 520 gb ssd and it's great I have enough for my liking I have 700+ available storage , and that's more then I need all I play is cod or just on game pass

They should give us the option to choose if we want to upgrade our games to internal storage instead of forcing us to upgrade it. Smart delivery is actually really stupid for that reason.

Got a Samsung 512gb 3.1 usb flash drive for 31 bucks put almost all my games on it and ran fortnight etc fine . Also transfer speed was about 2.5gbps to internal storage

I had got an expansion drive because the transfer speed just not worth it for when u wanna play with friends like big games like 2k and cod that’s like 200gb it’s takes a min

Bigger failure than transfer speed is mechanical failure. There are 3rd party options to the memory stick. Runs about $50 for the 512GB SSD and $100 for the 1TB, + $10 for the adapter itself.