$400?!? Insane prices...do what you want with your money but wow! I haven't had any regrets with the decision I made last year.

I hope they realize how insane they are for making it so expensive and lower the prices but we can only hope

I am actually surprised your other video doesn't have more views, it was a really helpful video on a topic that not many KZfaqrs really talk about. I when I first got my series s, I did not realize that next gen games could not be played from an external drive and had to use internal storage and I already had a 1 terabyte drive. But after seeing this video, I was really happy I knew I would not have to spend literally the price of a college class on an external drive for 1 tb of storage.

the best thing to do is keep all of the series x/s games stored on the internal drive while the xbox one games are on the external. then you can run any one of them whenever you want, plus you can plug the external drive into an xbox one to play those games as well

I use a 1tb sandisk extreme v2 ssd along with a 4tb hdd. I keep all my 360 and xb1 games on the hdd,and use the sandisk ssd to store x/s games that I'm not playing atm but want to quickly transfer back to the internal ssd later. This has worked great for the past 6months,but more and more I'm outgrowing this process as more and more games are requiring to be on the internal ssd,and honestly it's flat out bad for the internal ssd to keep writing to it so much. What is frustrating is that there are so many games that do not need to be on the internal ssd from a technical aspect, yet force you to play them from there just for the sake of carrying the X/S logo.take gta san andreas definitive edition and a whole slew of gamepass indie games as examples off the top of my head. Microsoft really needs to Crack down on this with developers before it becomes a serious problem for the Series Consoles. All the Devs want to market their games as being "Next Gen" without actually adding ANY Next Gen features that warrant being on the internal ssd.

Thank you, great video that was one of the things I was not sure of in regards to storage and other options. Got me over the line now 😆 will pick up a Xbox series S tomorrow

thanks dude . very helpful. just getting my sons xbox ready for xmas , i was confused on the storage issue

Great information. Still watching when I can. Thanks for sharing

Great video and excellent sense. You are not alone in thinking that a simple but large capacity external hard drive makes much better sense for most people that the absurdly expensive luxury of the Seagate expansion card storage option. I have subscribed!

It's crazy $400. I'm not rich by any mean but there was a time I paid $400 for a 128GB SSD for my PC to boot faster. Hopefully, the price will go down around $200-250 for the fast 2TB expansion storage.

Dude thank you!!!!!! Fantastic idea!!! I was so upset when I realized I couldnt use my ext. drive but I'm so glad I found this video

So pretty much if you don't play the X/S version games you're good to buy any Seagate hard drive but if you do play the X/S version games you're pretty much forced into buying the most expensive drive am I hearing correctly?

I bought the 1TB expansion used on Mercari for $150. I have no regrets so far. Most games I play are X/S enhanced so the SSD didn’t make sense to me. I love how you can just jump back into games with the quick resume. I’ll play COD online and when everyone is offline I can easily jump back to the pause menu that I left another game without reloading the whole game again. It truly unlocks the the gen gaming experience for me.

Thanks for the video! I was curious how an expansion drive would work as I recently upgraded to the series S and was gonna get myself a drive for Christmas! Very helpful video and happy holidays!

I hope the next generation of consoles will finally give us a decent hard drive out of the gate(like 5tb). I have a 4tb, slow mechanical hdd from my Xbox 1 days, the 1tb internal drive. I still have about 1.5tb free, but. That’s because I bought the crazy expensive 200 dollar expensive card.Being limited by usb slots I decided it was worth it. Just wish memory costs less with out giving up all my old Xbox 1 games and saves

You should make this video again. With the current state of the market, and external SSD's being at all-time low prices including the "special" Xbox series x memory module it would make it even more interesting to the masses. I think your opinions are on point.

Great video cheers. Just ordered an S and will use a 1TB SSD I have spare for extra storage.

Genuinely helpful, thank you

Thank you, bro! It helps me a lot! God bless!

Thank you for the information

Thanks for the "heads up". You just saved me 220 bucks!

Your video’s help so much 👍

Do you have the link for the specific external hard drive you're using?

One thousandth like! Trying to figure out what SSD to buy!

Only thing I regret about buying the Series S is the lack of storage and how expensive it is to add more external storage. You’re better off just saving that $220 and buying the 1tb Series X…..that’s if you’re lucky enough to get it for the retail price $499

W! content like always!!!

What would be the best 1TB external HD (Speed-Price) that we can buy for the Serie S ? please drop the amazon links here :)

Do you remove your external hdd? Or still in place after year?

Do games not optimized for the series x and s benefit from putting them in an external ssd or are the load time the same as in a hdd?

So you can play older games directly from the 3rd part external? Just not new Series X games?

You can get a 8tb external seagate hard drive that cost £154.99 and just keep your games on there and move them to the internal when you want to use them but just a 2tb expansion seagate expansion nvme card is £339.99

It's a good video with a valid point. But a reccomendation on external storage would help.

Glad I found this video. The 2TB seagate card is like $280 on Amazon now but still felt so expensive for the amount of storage so I’ll probably utilize this solution instead!

What type of hard drive did you buy? Desperate need of storage right now 😖

Thanks for the Tipp. Definitely better than paying now 500€ for the 2 TB option or 240€ for 1 TB.

Will the quality and frames drop with this external drive

Great idea bro👏

happy new year - keep up the good work :-) one question: can I remotely transfer games from the regular external HD to the internal SSD via XBOX App? or do you have to switch on the console etc thank you!

Can you trade the games with the x/s logo back in forth or can they not be put at all on the hard drive??

what is that external drive you have? the exact model? you said it can't be used to play any current gen X/S optimized games. but it can be used to play the older backwards compat. games even the ones with the X/S optimization just fine correct?

Won’t constantly transferring games back and forth wear out the hard drive faster?

The 1TB SSD was on sale on Amazon for $129. I got it and loving it!

What game are you playing at the beginning of this video? It looks really fun?

Good looking out 💯👌

i have a 4TB hard drive i bought for the xbox one x maybe 4 yrs ago. My question is do you think the same hard drive will work with the xbox series x

Hey man. I have an X-box series s will so be good getting an old external storage if i don’t have any old x box games I just want the extra storage also i’m wondering if these cheaper drives are compatible with series s

It's a convenience rather than a necessity

Just ordered the super expensive 2Tb insane price wow. For me sx I mainly bought so I can have as many game pass games on there as possible.

wait can I play games on my hard drive if it is not a series s or x game. I have an Xbox one s will games play straight off the hard drive or do I need to transfer it into the Xbox and play the games. sorry for so many questions I am just confused.

I agree, I think Microsoft are being greedy, the cost for such a low storage add on is ridiculous. Regardless of how much money you have or don’t have, they should look after their loyal,customers and make it affordable for everyone, corporate greed at its finest, not as if they are struggling.

Nice content bro

Are the load times still fast when u play a game from the hard drive

If u play a game that is on external storage but isn’t next gen optimised can u still play it with 120fps

Great video, and i'd rather wait a few minutes more than have to pay bloody 200 or more euros for the xpansion card, i'll pick up an external hdd instead.

Can you link your hard drive that you use?

Will playing games off the hard drive still allow me to activate modes like performance mode in AC Valhalla to run at higher FPS, or do the games need to be on the internal SSD to take advantage of 120fps or 60fps in AAA games. Are the “enhanced” games that have to be on the internal drive the games that allow higher fps?

Can someone help me out please, what about internet data ? It’s abysmal to install games it eats my data for the month since I can’t really afford infinite data each month. Does moving games from storage to storage still use a lot of data like downloading a game does ?

it really depends on the person though like how many games are you really playing right now cause the only games that am still playing right now is Elden ring , MW2 and Street fighter 6 than later on when MK 1 when that comes out

I just bought the WD black 5tb for series s for for 129$. I was a bit bummed when I learned it didn’t do the same as the expansion card, however the transfer speeds are much faster so in the end it was worth it. The PS4 expansion storage you could at least have option for expansion storage and play many many games

Bought the 2tb one for my best friend. He's been loving the extra space and speed ever since.

I remember paying 1000$ for a 1 gig drive many many years ago for our server. I bit the bullet and ordered the 2 terabyte storage. Its not here yet, either is my x box series S yet. I would have purchased the X version but just was not available for the 599 it was around 800$ and I refuse to let people rip me off. The thing I worried about with a external drive was not the time it takes but I know that digital drives have a set number or rights and then they will not right to the drive anymore and its important to have fill them up so I plan on using the external storage for my games and let the operating system use the internal drive. Hopefully the console will last many years that way. I am not rich either but I am old (64) and I have worked all my life and still do so if I want something within reason I buy it.

Thank you, this is all I wanted to know...

With my internet speeds, I might as we just delete and redownload if I need to than transferring. I have 2 externals hooked up to my Series X because I moved them from my One X, and it just sits on a TV stand. Just bought a Series S and don’t see a point in hooking up the external since I would only want to run games off the internal or expansion card.

Love the video definitely going this route. what game was at 4:16?

2400 MB/s for 400 USD is a bit much. you can get 2tb m.2 nvme gen 4 drives for 240ish and they have 7000 MB/ write speed. Hopefully we figure out how to clone the required stuff on the internal NVME as a work around.

Excellent video excellent drive

Bro, thank you. I've been putting up with no space for like 5 years now with my Xbox S. I'm upgrading to the series S Monday. Edit: one question. The loading times are only affected when playing through the external hard drive, right? That makes sense to me but I wanna make sure.

Can I buy a 2tb flash drive with usb3.0 will it work ?

Dumb question but can I use a USB drive instead of the card

It’s really insane because if you have a series s but want the next gen storage adapter you have to pay like $200 and at that point you might as well just get an series X

I just use a 2tb ssd and a sata to usb adapter. Is it a bottlenecked by the usb? sure but still way faster than a regular HDD.

whats the name of your drive again?

Totally worth the convenience, speed, time saved and money

2:51 what game is that right there? It reminds me of "Hunter: the Reckoning" for the Gamecube

Any links for decent external Harddrives for series s please

Can you use a SSD external drive to store and series xs games

Can you play games that are NOT Xbox X|S optimized directly from the external hard drive? or do they have to be moved to internal storage just like the Xbox X|S optimized games? Please I need to know

bro can you please link the harddrive or tell me the name of it

Bought a 2TB expansion card for my Series X. I have 2 8TB external drives hooked up to it from my Xbox One X, but I don’t actually play games off of them anymore…so I might even get rid of them at some point. Now I’m getting a Series S to use around the house when not in my gaming basement and will definitely not hookup an external to play Xbox games on it.

What Was the first game shown in this video

Do you lose your game progress once you move a game from an internal SSD to an external HDD ?

I was looking for info and you solved it with the same idea I was confused about. About how it doesn’t work to play games on the exact 5TB drive you have. But now I know that it wasn’t just me saying it that garbage is being sold for so much. I bought my the same drive at Costco for $90!

at 3.23 what game is that anyone know? i really want that game, anyone with the info please let me know! thanks in advance by the way im looking for storage for my xbox series x, any recomemdation? just storage for game i have no money for fancy xbox ssd card.

Saved me buying the expensive Seagates I've got two 2tb Wd hdd I'm gonna fill them up Thanks for reassuring me

Will Using games on the series x off of the external hard drive lower the graphics and fps?

If I buy a external ssd will it work the same way as the expansion stick?

Got the 1 tb fir 150 and I am happy with the purchase . No transferring fit me

I picked up a 1 TB and have no regrets. Super fast transfer speeds and very convenient. Nevertheless, since Nvme drives are lowering in price, these solutions should become cheaper too. It's too bad that the USB ports are literally usb 3.0 instead of 3.2, because usb Nvme drives cannot remotely run at specified transfer rates.

Thanks for you help

All this swapping backwards and forwards is going to kill your SSD sooner rather than later? There's talk that these internal SSD's are starting to fail, and are not replaceable ?

what is the first game called?

I still rather have the connivence of the sea gate expansion card just my opinion tbh. I got the series x with a 1Tb expansion card cause I’m a ultimate member I just play all thru there. I gameshare with my girl who’s got a series s. Got her the 2Tb expansion card for Christmas. Idk we save money by only buying one cod every year and sharing. And we got our consoles for pretty much nothing cause of my pro membership at GameStop. So I think just going all in with the expansion card is the way too go if you play big multiplayer games. I would hate having to transferring everything cause games are dropping hot rn. It’s like saying don’t buy a M.2 for your ps5 which you should and I did in ours in the living room and those are the same price if not more 😂

Does anyone know what game that is at 2:20?

GameStop employee said the exact same thing. I went in to purchase the SSD. She was like hay just go to Amazon

Can you just leave that 5tb external hard drive plugged in to the console without damaging it?

I bought one for $200 and I am happy I did!!

Can someone please explain to me why you even need a new storage device to play the new gen games I paid $140 for a 4tb hard drive for literally no reason because none of my games go on the drive

A lot of people are hoping that the next gen consoles have more storage. Like 4-5 tb But that sad thing is next gen games will be 500gb-1tb in size. That’s why there is a market for memory cards.

I just bought the 2tb seagate for over 400€ it is totally worth it! And just in case i got a high speed external drive ssd as well. You better be sure! Only flightsim is already sucking up my storage!

So you can’t play X/S enhanced games from the external hard drive but you can download them onto the drive and transfer it from the drive to the console? I have very limited high speed internet at my cottage, that means I could buy a cheaper drive and download the games at home and then bring the drive to the cottage and transfer them to the console?