Top 6 Best External SSDs for Xbox One 2018 Fastest external solid state drives for Xbox One and Xbox One S. Renars - October 12, 2018. Best Cheap Xbox One Headset: Top Picks Under $100. The Best Micro USB Cable Picks of 2019. Since I'm lazy person to mount SSD as internal hardware part, I prefer to use external drive. But does using external SSD will cost me way slower data reading speed? I know I could combine HDD and SSD together in PC case but it's tricky for me so I might go for easy way now. Most external SSD's are cheap models and have slower read/write.
Submitted on 2019-03-10 Review title of KalinSave $300 and buy a Non-Xbox Branded version!While, yes, this still a near 50% markup on the standard Seagate external SSD's just because it has the Xbox name on it. What the above poster fails to realize is that these are Solid State Drives, NOT cheap mechanical hard drives, which is the reason for the high price. With games now taking upwards of 100GB of space and made up of 1000's of large and small files, SSD's are almost REQUIRED nowadays in order to get decent performance out of your game, especially when it comes to loading levels and on-the-fly loading of assets when it comes to open world games.So yes, get an SSD for your xbox, but save your money and buy the Non-Xbox Branded version of this drive, as this drive will provide ZERO benefits over any other external SSD on the market.