Kear_Bear_3747 t1_j20oqs6 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 8:29 PM

I don’t use discs anymore, just digital storage.

My Xbox Series X has two external HDDs attached to it: one for everything pre X|S (4TB) and one for shuttling X|S titles to internal storage (5TB)

Shuttling is when you move games back and forth from HDD to HDD instead of deleting and having to download games again, so have I like 40 X|S games installed even though my internal HDD can’t hold nearly that many. The transfer rate is between 500mbps and 1000mbps so the largest games only take like 10-15 minutes to transfer.

I also have a Series S at my work desk and an Xbox One X in the bedroom, both of which receive games from the Series X via Network Transfer so I’m only ever downloading games once even though I may be using them on various consoles.

Digital is the SHIT

SallySmall75 OP t1_j20yrh6 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:35 PM

Quick question, so I get the shuttling part but what I don’t get is why are you moving stuff to internal storage? And why do you need a while other storage thing for it?

Kear_Bear_3747 t1_j20z91v wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:38 PM

For the X|S consoles the new-Gen games only work on internal storage, you can’t run them off an external HDD. The alternative to shuttling is buying one of those proprietary storage cards which are like $300 for a 1TB internal storage expansion, which is obviously dumb as bricks.

SallySmall75 OP t1_j210i7j wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:47 PM

Ohhh I think I get this now please correct me if I’m wrong, so your able to play games straight from your 4TB HDD because they are older games but for the newer games that need to be on the internal storage you have a 5TB HDD so you can keep some on the internal, and are able to play those straight away and the other games that you can’t fit which are on the 5TB you just swap them and move something on the internal storage to the 5TB HDD in order to play the game you wanted to?

Kear_Bear_3747 t1_j211f15 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 9:53 PM

That is 100% correct

SallySmall75 OP t1_j21dzug wrote on December 28, 2022 at 11:20 PM

Okay thanks that really helps me and just one last thing I want your opinion, do you think that buying your game’s digitally was bad, as in do you feel that it was too expensive and that you could have gotten cheaper if you bought second hand games. I just wanna know cuz I don’t want to regret buying a no disk console

Kear_Bear_3747 t1_j21e6b1 wrote on December 28, 2022 at 11:22 PM

There are constantly digital sales going on, and Xbox has a great rewards program.

If it’s between the two Xbox consoles I would still get an SX because it’s 4K rated.