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XBox 1x Disks

Links

gregs qna2 Page for external xbox 1 x drive I have been using

Disk Connections

1. SATA III Internal Connector. theortically up to 6 Gbit/s. Lower latency than USB 3 so better for boot drive.
2. USB 3.1 Gen 1 ports. Theortically up to 5 Gbit/s. More latency that SATA III so better for games not booting. All usb ports 1 in front and 2 in back support USB 3

Internal Disk Drive

The Xbox One X's internal hard drive is a 5400 RPM spinnner using SATA III drive with a maximum sequential read speed of around 150 MB/s (540-559 MB/s in benchmarks) and a write speed of approximately 453 MB/s. While the SATA III interface can technically support faster speeds up to 6 Gbit/s, the 5400 RPM rotational speed of the hard drive is the primary bottleneck for performance. Replacing is not easy so I don't recommend it. Still using internal that came with it. 1 TB. Seems to have about 700 GB Free for games and game saves.

External Disk Drive

USB 3.0 External SSDs can theoritcall xfr at 5 GBPS: Connecting an external USB 3.0 SSD to an Xbox One X can significantly reduce game load times because SSDs have much faster read/write speeds than the internal HDD, often reaching 500–550 MB/s for the SSD itself. So games could play better over External HD if it's an SSD.

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Been using the following drive for external. 5400 RPM Spiner. Max 130 MBPs xfr speeds. 2TB USB 3.2 Gen 1 WD Black P10 Game Drive 2.5" HD WDBA2W0020BBK-OB Purchased 2021-01-27 Xbox One-X USB Self Powered.

Recomendations

Every body seems to say an external SSD for games storage is the simplest best upgrade. Game load times will be much faster over SSD and an external SSD is just as fast as an Internal one would be. Also not worth the effort to change internal as that really just increases OS boot times, not game load times and is not as simple.