Games load times are a plague for gamers, or at least a necessary evil. On game consoles is, however, a lot of speedups with faster hard drives. Sony allows the internal drives of the PlayStation 4 are easy to replace, but Microsoft’s Xbox One is that for a normal user impossible. The solution? A fast external hard drive.
Since the launch at the end of 2013 the Xbox One already has a few upgrades to the S – and especially the X-series. Although the Xbox One X loading time is significantly shorten, the console features a classic hard disk which rotates with a speed of 5,400 revolutions per minute (RPM). Fortunately, the consoles are equipped with a fast USB 3.0 connection, so even a few seconds of time saved can books your games on an external hard drive from 5,400 RPM to convert.
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You also, of course, faster drives, especially flash drives or solid state drives (SSD). Seagate brings this year specifically for the Xbox One a few SSD drives out, complete with an Xbox Game Pass subscription of two months. The stekkerloze drives come in three variants of 500 GB, 1 TB and 2 TB, and the manufacturer threw one in our testbak.
Appearance
The rectangular black drives are 94 mm 79 mm is strikingly small, about one and a half card size. With 90 mm, they are also remarkably thin, so they’re going to be very easy to carry. “Thanks to the official Xbox license fits the Game Drive, in addition, also visual excellent to your Xbox One”, it sounds.
In practice, on the drive, just a picture with the Xbox logo to hang that not all the surface is covered, what is not so glitzy looks. Not that you are there during gameplay, something would notice it, but it is a pity, because this is just something that Seagate are SSD wants to stand out from other drives, which, in principle, equally well should work.
