I bought a Xbox series s recently and I’ve been transferring things over and my external drive won’t accept “optimised games” is there a way to sort it out?
#Can Optimised Games go on external hard drive
abstract hawk
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scarlet sleet
I bought a Xbox series s recently and I’ve been transferring things over and my ...
You can store them, but you can't play them.
subtle reef
They can be copied/stored there.
They can not be played from there.
scarlet sleet
USB drives are too slow to run Series S/X games. You need to either use the internal or buy an expansion card.
abstract hawk
Where could I buy TB for good price?
subtle reef
Amazon.
The price won’t be good though they are very expensive.
Seagate and western digital are the only two manufacturers.
subtle reef
No
scarlet sleet
That is very likely to not be the one you want..
scarlet sleet
These things are like 200 dollars. You might get lucky and find one on sale for 150.
abstract hawk
This is what the tags say “External Host Hard Drive Conversion Box for Xbox Series x/s,m.2 Hard Drive Expansion Card Converter”
subtle reef
No. Only Seagate or western digital.
That is a scam adaptor. I guarantee it doesn’t work.
scarlet sleet
That's not it. It's the one he just showed. They're very specific.
subtle reef
There are no adaptors that work.
subtle reef
Yep. You really need to think about if you need it or not
abstract hawk
Well I got a 368 gb xbonx even it was meant to be a 500 gb one
scarlet sleet
There's always less space then it says - Think of an XBox like a mini computer.. it needs saved spaced for saved games, important files for the OS, etc.
abstract hawk
Well I at least have my spare Xbox One
scarlet sleet
But like Tacti says, you need to make the decision on the expansion card based on your actual needs..
Like for me, the decision was easy - I constantly switch between different games, so rather then constantly uninstall games to install new ones, I have both a USB drive (for legacy games) and the expansion card.