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The 2TB WD_Black C50 expansion card for Xbox Series X/S hits record low $190 (www.theverge.com)

submitted 2 weeks ago by jordanlund@lemmy.world to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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NGL, I've been waiting for this. Yeah, yeah, proprietary expansion, too expensive, but on the Xbox, you won't (currently) do better.

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[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Weird, I have a regular old 2TB (or maybe it was 1?) western digital plugged into the USB on the back of my series x and it works fine, not sure I understand the need to spend a bunch on something like this. Edit: and before responding about speed... I haven't noticed much, if any, difference in game performance from installing on the drive or external outside of the initial game loading (startup) time, so not sure if that's the only benefit to using the expansion slot.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

USB drives are good for storage only, you can't actually play the games from there. You have to move them to the SSD to play them.

[–] Mikelius@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Hmm I'll have to check this later as I don't remember ever running into that problem since my Xbox internal has been full for a while. But I also wonder if that applies to physical copies or not since all my series x games are physical. Unless Xbox does this automatically in the background without user intervention, then I may have not noticed

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 2 weeks ago

Yes, series X and S games can't be played from external storage. You have to move them to the SSD.

Where you might be being tricked is that it WILL work for OLDER games, so if you're using it for backwards compatible versions, it will work fine.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/xbox/forum/all/whats-the-point-of-selling-external-hard-drives/dc0c20dc-0c00-4f32-9aa6-b9b194a3e90c

https://www.seagate.com/support/kb/using-an-external-usb-drive-with-an-xbox-series-x-or-s/