tldr; any suggestions on external drives that works well with your xbox one s?
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I bought a 3TB Seagate drive for my Xbox One S jumping on a bargain. It turned out to be a disaster. Games installed on that drive lags whenever there is a Cut scene or new map loading. Now, I run them from internal disc and the experience is smooth. Thus, I wonder if this is an issue with the seagate disc or my xbox.
A kind ozbargainer suggested using a USB3Y cable, but it was no use.
A quora user suggested buying a 7200RPM disc. I checked with Microsoft, they told the Seagate disk specs are fine for Xbox. They suggested trying with another external drive(Unfortunately, I don't have one).
However, I ran Speed test on the disk (using Black Magic Speed Test app) and the result is 122MB/s read speed. I read that Ideal USB 3 reading speed is 500GB/s. Is seagate one too slow? I checked few Youtube videos, and they range between 100MB/s and 200MB/s
Anyway, I am going to return the disk (Glad I kept the box and docs) and get a WD one. But, not too sure which one I should go for. Any, suggestions from Xbox Users are welcome.
And also, if a fellow ozbargainer happens to have the same Seagate disk connected to his/her Xbox one S, I would like to hear his/her experience too.
Thank you.
Running the speed test on the disk is one thing.
The only way you can eliminate external disk problem is if you have another HDD and see whether it lags on that one as well.
122MB/s read speed sounds OK to me - there is nothing wrong with your HDD according to the speed test.
I am more interested in the source where you found a USB3.0 HDD reading speed is supposed to be 500GB/s.
Please don't confuse the capability of the USB3.0 technology and a USB3.0 HDD.
The maximum speed of USB3.0 technology is 5 Gbit/s (625 MB/s).
Have you tried power cycling your Xbox?
Try this and this
The first one hopefully will fix your issue.