Microsoft Xbox One S 1TB Console

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This is Crucial's newest portable SSD, so it is a bit pricey. That said, its dinky size and top-drawer performance make it worth having if you take games on the go. Now that the P40 has arrived and has stolen its spotlight, the P50 should be more prone to discounts. It's not much slower than the P40 either. Portable SSDs don't often come cheap, but this older model is priced more reasonably these days. It's also tiny, so it'd be easy to take on the go.

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in one of the best Xbox One external hard drives will go far. We're talking around 50 games, depending on what they are. Smaller, retro style games may only take up a few gigs, while some newer AAA titles are upwards of 80-100GB. Either way, 2TB is sure to futureproof you. Do all external hard drives work with Xbox One? Compared to running games on a standard external HDD we managed to decrease loading times on Resident Evil 7 from game selection to gameplay from around 90 seconds to just one minute. Transfer times here worked great too. It only took us 3 minutes 48 seconds to move 30GB compared to 7:16 when using an HDD. If you want loads of room for games, 4TB will be more than enough. This HDD My Passport from WD won't give you great speeds, but it's cheaper than a 4TB SSD. Essentially any external hard drive will be compatible with Xbox One in 2023. Just keep in mind that the console itself formats storage in exFAT, and the majority of hard drives are formatted to something like NTFS out of the box. This means you may have to format the drive before using it with an Xbox One, and that you won't be able to use it for anything else. When you format the drive, you'll lose all the data already on there, so keep that in mind.If it's cheap and cheerful HDD storage you'd like, the Toshiba Canvio Advance is an old faithful of the HDD market. Just don't expect fast speeds. You can get a 1TB version here for a similar price to HDDs with equivalent capacities. The Crucial X6 is fantastic for storing and playing games and data, no matter the platform you're on. It may be pictured here next to a DualSense, but keep in mind that these drives work with any device so long as they're formatted correctly, and the Xbox One will do the heavy lifting with that in a flash. Its USB-C port can be used on your devices as either a USB-A or USB-C connection and in our testing, we got the same speeds through either port so it shouldn't matter which you have free or available, or if you change the device it's used with during its lifetime. There's a small but clear LED indicator on one of the short ends which is always a help, but one small downside is that it does get a little warm when in use so it'll pay to keep that in mind when positioning it. Read and write speeds were great in testing. The 2000MB/s speed you see on the box is as good as you'll get in an external hard drive, but in reality, it translates to some great load times and transfer speeds on PS5, Xbox, and PC. The P40 managed to transfer about 30 clips spanning a total of 22GB from console SSD in around a minute. It then transferred three games that added up to 18GB, and it moved across in just shy of a minute.

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It's totally up to you whether you go for capacity in the form of HDD, or shoot for faster performance in the form of an SSD. No matter what you choose, one of the best Xbox One hard drives will be an extremely handy tool to have in your console's loadout.