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expiredbrettrg posted Oct 16, 2022 03:32 PM
expiredbrettrg posted Oct 16, 2022 03:32 PM

WD BLACK 2TB SSD D30 Game Drive - Portable External Solid State Drive, Compatible with Playstation, Xbox, & PC, Up to 900MB/s - WDBATL0020BBK-WESN - 162.00

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Lowest price this has been over the last 30 days or so. Solid deal if wanting a good performing external storage for consoles.

https://www.amazon.com/WD_BLACK-2...B093HKLY24

List of optimized S/X games that run directly off of externals:
AC Origins - 49.7GB
AC Odyssey - 75.9 GB
ARK Survival Evolved - 135.3 GB
Conan Exiles - 151 GB
Descenders - 13.9 GB
Dying Light - 31.9 GB (no badge but has series update)
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 42.2 GB
Halo MCC - 117.9 GB
For Honor - 73.4 GB
Insurgency: Sandstorm - 9.0 GB
Maid of Sker 6.3 GB
Mass Effect Legendary Edition - 93.8 GB
Minecraft Dungeons - 4.9 GB
Ori and The Will of the Wisps - 6.4 GB
Rocket League - 29.7 GB
Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 22.8 GB
Sea of Thieves - 68.5 GB
Sniper Elite 4 - 48.2 GB
State of Decay 2 - 21.2 GB
Stellaris - 9.84 GB
Star Wars Squadrons - 24.9 GB
The Good Life - 3.72 GB
Warhammer Vermintide 2 - 92.44 GB
The Division 2 - 67.1 GB
Visage - 8.73 GB
We Happy Few - 11.29 GB
Who's Your Daddy (Game Preview) - 2.8 GB
Zombie Army 4 Dead War - 36.7 GB
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Lowest price this has been over the last 30 days or so. Solid deal if wanting a good performing external storage for consoles.

https://www.amazon.com/WD_BLACK-2...B093HKLY24

List of optimized S/X games that run directly off of externals:
AC Origins - 49.7GB
AC Odyssey - 75.9 GB
ARK Survival Evolved - 135.3 GB
Conan Exiles - 151 GB
Descenders - 13.9 GB
Dying Light - 31.9 GB (no badge but has series update)
Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim - 42.2 GB
Halo MCC - 117.9 GB
For Honor - 73.4 GB
Insurgency: Sandstorm - 9.0 GB
Maid of Sker 6.3 GB
Mass Effect Legendary Edition - 93.8 GB
Minecraft Dungeons - 4.9 GB
Ori and The Will of the Wisps - 6.4 GB
Rocket League - 29.7 GB
Shadow of the Tomb Raider - 22.8 GB
Sea of Thieves - 68.5 GB
Sniper Elite 4 - 48.2 GB
State of Decay 2 - 21.2 GB
Stellaris - 9.84 GB
Star Wars Squadrons - 24.9 GB
The Good Life - 3.72 GB
Warhammer Vermintide 2 - 92.44 GB
The Division 2 - 67.1 GB
Visage - 8.73 GB
We Happy Few - 11.29 GB
Who's Your Daddy (Game Preview) - 2.8 GB
Zombie Army 4 Dead War - 36.7 GB

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Oct 16, 2022 05:10 PM
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perrins21Oct 16, 2022 05:10 PM
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Good deal but seems like only for storage of the X/S games as you cannot run them off externals
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Oct 16, 2022 05:16 PM
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brettrg
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Oct 16, 2022 05:16 PM
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Quote from perrins21 :
Good deal but seems like only for storage of the X/S games as you cannot run them off externals
You can run all Xbox one games as well as a select number of optimized for S/X games (halo mcc etc) directly off the drive. The latest S/X games can be archived on this external and moved to internal storage to play (that's the strategy I use with gamepass etc). Hope that helps.
Oct 16, 2022 06:04 PM
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HappyClass939Oct 16, 2022 06:04 PM
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Quote from brettrg :
You can run all Xbox one games as well as a select number of optimized for S/X games (halo mcc etc) directly off the drive. The latest S/X games can be archived on this external and moved to internal storage to play (that's the strategy I use with gamepass etc). Hope that helps.
Interesting I had no idea that some of the optimized for S/X games could be run directly from an external drive other than the Seagate official one. I already have a Seagate official one for my X but I understand the use cases for a quality drive like this that costs about half of the Seagate 2TB SSD.
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Oct 16, 2022 06:20 PM
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brettrg
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Oct 16, 2022 06:20 PM
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Quote from HappyClass939 :
Interesting I had no idea that some of the optimized for S/X games could be run directly from an external drive other than the Seagate official one. I already have a Seagate official one for my X but I understand the use cases for a quality drive like this that costs about half of the Seagate 2TB SSD.
I included a list of all the optimized games that work from external drives:

This is a post from Reddit that explains the technicals:
These games are built for Xbox One (X) using XDK. Instead of being completely rebuilt with the new development tools (GDK) for Series consoles, they just got an update that tells the game to run higher settings when a Series console is detected. But since the game is built for Xbox One, it will work fine with an old HDD.

If a game is (re)built with GDK it can use all the new features like Velocity Architecture, hardware ray tracing and so on. But that also means the game expects full Series X|S hardware specs, including the faster storage.
Oct 16, 2022 06:26 PM
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squandererOct 16, 2022 06:26 PM
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price in title would be nice..

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