XBOX ONE X Owner's Club

[DroidKnight]

SvennoJ said:

DroidKnight said:
I can tell that I am going to quickly run out of storage space. Does running an external hard drive hurt loading times, or cause issues in gaming in 4K or Enhanced modes?

With XBox One S you could get fast improvements in loading times by using an external drive

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-should-you-upgrade-your-xbox-one-with-an-ssd

It all depends on the drive of course, and there are no tests yet how fast the internal drive is in the X. But since the S already makes good use of a faster drive it would seem logical that using an external SSD to icopy the game you're playing on will help a lot.

 

malistix1985 said:

SvennoJ said:

Apparently it does not
https://www.reddit.com/r/xboxone/comments/6hf02i/can_anyone_identify_what_this_xbox_one_x_hard

https://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822178875&gclid=Cj0KCQiAuZXQBRDKARIsAMwpUeQVAhZZb2HBxqUmjSnutGbaBqVKKxTXNkcC6TT0W4vhZVhykYp25wgaAgTNEALw_wcB

The interface is faster, cpu as well, so loading times are decreased just as on the pro with an 5400 rpm drive. A good external drive will still be better.

128MB cache is the only improvement over the S then, so yeah, 7200rpm or hybrid or ssd should increase performance, strange I wonder who spread that 7200rpm rumour lol

 

WoodenPints said:

DroidKnight said:
I can tell that I am going to quickly run out of storage space. Does running an external hard drive hurt loading times, or cause issues in gaming in 4K or Enhanced modes?

Watch a video on it myself just before release as I was curious also, Internals provided a big boost over the S but the internal of the X seems to be basically the same as using an external HDD.

Vid below compared S/X and externals but for the X Internal vs Externals specifically it's at 4:35.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cplUf_VUea0

 

cmay227 said:
Ext SSD drive preformance is not worth the cost. It's negligible on the x. Not enough to justify the cost.

Thanks for the feedback guys, it really helped me a bunch.