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Reasonable speeds, and a stylish drive with more than enough storage for a console owner.

It would have been good to include a carry case of some description, especially given the target market, but that doesn’t detract from this being a good USB 3.0 external drive. WD are generally pretty good when it comes to reliability, and seeing as this model comes with a three year limited warranty, there’s a certain amount of confidence you can take in your purchase.

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However, it did work perfectly well on a PS3 as a media device and storage medium.Īt around £95, the WD My Passport X is a decent enough buy for 2TB of external storage for your overfllowing console. We can’t speak for its use on an Xbox One as we don’t own one, unfortunately.

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The WD 2TB My Passport X worked well enough on a PC as an external hard drive, the speeds are reasonable and can be used as an external storage device for some PC games. It would be interesting to see how it fares when compared to other USB 3.0 external drives. Clearly the drive is better at moving around big files as opposed to smaller file chunks. Interestingly, the 4KB file transfer only managed a rather poor 27.3MB/s read and 27.4MB/s write. The results weren’t too bad, with the 8192KB file transfer scoring 117MB/s on the read test, and 116MB/s for the write test. We ran the My Passport X through the usual drive benchmark, using ATTO and connected to an i7-4790K, with 16GB of memory. However, in terms of formatting from the Xbox One, or any other console, that number may alter accordingly depending on the system you’re using. The drive is NTFS preformatted with about 1.81TB of space actually available for you to use.

Let’s face it, you don’t need a huge amount of technical knowledge to be able to plug an external drive into a USB port regardless of whether that’s on a console or a PC. In the box you get the drive itself, a very small (around 12″) WD connector-to-USB 3.0 lead, and a quick information card displaying the drive being plugged into the appropriate USB port on an Xbox One. It’s certainly a good quality chassis, and keeps in the same style as a modern console. SAS NOUTBUKLAR, PC DESKTOP HARD DSK / SSD Maazada WD My Passport 2TB External HDD Previous product Maazada WD My Passport 1TB External HDD 119. To one end, there’s the SuperSpeed WD connector with a single, small white LED to indicate that the drive has power.

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The top of the drive chassis is ridged, with a glossy WD logo and My Passport X logo to one side, whereas the bottom of the drive features four small rubber feet. Easier to install than Vanced, works better on Fire Stick and other TV media players. The design is realised ina sleek, black plastic that’s tough enough for general use and portability although it probably wouldn’t survive a drop from more than a couple of feet. The WD My Passport X is a 2TB hard drive with that measures 110 x 20.96 x 81.6mm and weighs 230g. Western Digital, though, has come up with a tweaked version of the solution used by many PC users: a USB 3.0 external hard drive.

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True enough, there are ways and means to upgrade the current storage in an Xbox One or PS4, but often this relies on some screwdriver work, and a loss of warranty for the user. One of the biggest problems facing a modern console owner is the lack of hard drive space these things ship out with by default.

re-install the last update) but I'm not sure there is any way to do that, short of fully resetting the Xbox, before assuming it is a hardware issue (and having to send it in for repair).Need more storage for your console? Look no further I'd love to try to re-install the Xbox OS (i.e. Has anyone else experienced this? Any ideas? They do the same thing as the Seagate drive - they light up, but the Xbox doesn't recognize them. The hard drive light blinks a few times when the Xbox comes on and then goes to a solid light, so it is getting power, but the Xbox will not recognize it.Īfter all this I also tried two other external USB storage devices that have media on them - another hard drive, and a thumb drive. Light went off), and checking the hard drive with SeaTools (my PC recognizes the hard drive and Seatools says there is nothing wrong with it).

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2 WDBLACK 1TB P10 Game Drive for Xbox, Portable External Hard. checking/unchecking the 'turn off external storage' box), rebooting the Xbox (full reboots, including fully unplugging it until the power supply This is the only option on this list that allows you to run Series X-optimised games and use the console's Quick Resume feature. I triedĪ new USB cable, adding extra power to the hard drive, different USB ports, playing with the power settings (e.g. I have tried virtually everything I can think of, and it seems that the problem is with the Xbox, not the hard drive. My Xbox One suddenly stopped recognizing my 2TB Seagate external hard drive, which I had been using for a good year without trouble.

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