My XBOX One is at 94% capacity and I’m looking for an external hard drive (most likely 2TB) to connect to it.
I’m looking for reliability feedback on Toshiba vs WD vs Seagate. Have you used any of these brands and it failed < 2 years?
Buying External Hard Drive for XBOX One
waitinghopefully on 13/04/2020 - 13:03
Last edited 13/04/2020 - 13:08 by 1 other user
Last edited 13/04/2020 - 13:08 by 1 other user
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I have added various 4TB Seagate HDDs to different PCs and Xboxes over the last 4- 5 years, including the Xbox branded one. Have not had a problem with any of them in that time. I have just added another to my Plex machine. I cannot speak for the others but you won't have problems with a Seagate.
Why would this help you in your decision at all? any information you receive will be anecdotal at best.
https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-for-2019/
is the closest statistical analysis of failure rate by brand you could use as a comparison.
True. This should be at the top along with the post of some USB HDD's having the USB interface soldered onto it.
Toshiba is okay, but they lag behind Seagate and WD a bit in terms of build quality.
My Forza 7 lap loading time cuts a lot when I move it to my ssd.
Internal of via USB?
USB
COD taking up more and more room with every update
Buy whatever is cheapest or has the easiest warranty. The drive stores nothing that can't be downloaded again, so you stand to lose nothing if there is a failure other than the drive.
Please excuse my ignorance. So are the game saves saved to the cloud and not the hard drive?
I believe that they are immediately saved to the hard drive and then synced to the cloud.
I upgraded from a One to a One X and all of my game progress was there for everything.
If you think you may use it for other files in the future I recommend avoiding WD drives as they solder the connector directly to the drive so if something goes wrong with the USB plug or the controller board you can't pull out the drive and connect to your PC.
Aside from recommendation against WD any other brand will be no probs.
I've bought a WD 2xHDD Passport/Cloud I can't remember which one. I took the HDD's straight out to use in my NAS as it was cheaper than buying the HDD's individually.
If it is just solder you can always remove it. I have a WD passport here that I will take apart soon and put in an SSD. I'll see how that goes.
IF you can spend a little more for an SSD youll see a good drop in the loading times. If that doesnt bother you its really much of a muchness between the big brands. Grab yourself a 2-3TB passbook style drive and away you go.
I would personally replace the original HDD with an SSD. Buy a USB HDD case for the Xbox HDD to use as external storage.
If you go the route of buying an off the shelf USB HDD just do some searching on what actual HDD is in it. Speeds and quality may vary. I used to be a seagate fan but had to many HDD's die an early death. I know use WD.
If your interested in speed buy a fast HDD and a USB case/caddy for it.
Bit late to the party, but I've used a 2tb Seagate drive with my Xbox one for about 3+ years and it hasn't let me down yet. Has been near capacity most of its life and I play games regularly that on stored on the drive. It's the cheapest Seagate 2tb one you can get from officeworks that occasionally comes on sale.
I’ve got two Xbox One consoles, both have external HDD’s. One is a 4TB Seagate and the other is a 4TB WD. WD has been going for around 4 years, Seagate around 3 years and both have had no issues.