How to increase the capacity on Xbox 2 terabytes: overview Seagate Game Drive

The almost complete lack of ability to upgrade and scale - is one of the perceived shortcomings of consoles. If there is insufficient space on the PC I just dokuplyu another hard drive or replace the existing on more by volume. How will it look like? So nevermind. I still hide it in the system unit and do not see anymore.

With such focus consoles not pass. Inside Xbox is no room for another hard drive. There are only external storage, which, characteristically, are in sight. And if I have to contemplate this "extension" on a regular basis, then let it be the topic.

Balance and harmony

The next few paragraphs - this is a purely subjective emotion aesthetes gamer. If you do not want to read the praises without practical justification, then skip to the paragraph "What can".

Ask yourself why you like harmony in the design of objects and buildings in the design of your home? It is human nature sense of beauty, and console gamers - this is not some minor detail of the interior, to ignore the integrity and uniformity of its design.

Hardcore gamers are overpaid decent money for collectible versions of games and consoles limited series, stylized Halo, Call of Duty and other games, because they so want to like it.

Buying gaming mouse mat and keyboard from Razer or SteelSeries PC - it's not for nothing thrown out 10-20 thousand rubles, and the desire to get more precision and control in a beautiful, elegant and harmonious performance. Do not judge people for their hobby.

Microsoft originally created the business combination of colors for the Xbox. Black and a special shade of green. They are in each box with the game, in all elements of the console interface. Spread around the game console a few games. What do you see? Yes, they all represent the same product. The very integrity and uniformity. Add to the exposure of some blue, white or aluminum external hard drive, and harmony once disturbed. Now remove the conventional hard drive and put it in its place Seagate Game Drive. You see the difference?

Everything in color, everything is combined. One gets the feeling that this external drive was initially walked bundled with the console.

Xbox logo on the casing Game Drive - this is not a crazy fantasy producer and Seagate result of cooperation with Microsoft.

The two companies have created a disk together, which is good not only aesthetically, but also from a practical point of view. And it's not just about guaranteed compatibility.

What can

Seagate Game Drive It increases the amount of storage on the Xbox 2 terabytes. There is also a version of Game Drive to 4TB.

Removable media connected to the console via a USB 3.0 port using the included cable. Auxiliary power drive is not required.

In the case of the old Xbox 360, where there is no high-speed ports, the connection speed will match USB 2.0. Also, for the Xbox 360 version will not work on Game Drive 4T B due to the limitation of the maximum volume carrier.

Generally, this attachment has outlived his own, so in the future we will only talk about the Xbox One.

After connecting the Xbox external drive automatically detects it and prompts you to select options. You may want to continue to set the game in the first place on the home console support, and Game Drive to use as a backup repository, but in terms of performance is incorrect. Available space will still be displayed by a single value, without division on the native and the HDD removable, but, selecting an external drive just as the main setting for the game, you get some increase performance.

Location undertake to gain? This phenomenon is familiar to PC users are accustomed to work with multiple disks. Games - it is always a large amount of data that must be quickly read. Moving them to a separate medium significantly reduces the load on the system drive where the Operating System is installed. Native HDD is only concerned with the system, and the external connected through smart USB 3.0, - only games. In addition, we must not forget that the less working hard drive, the more battery life.

Collectively, this division of the load accelerates as the operating system, as well as games. In practice, the load time of the game is reduced quite a bit. Symbolic difference, literally within 2-10 seconds. Neither of which, "I overclock my XBOX!» Speech is not here, just a small nice bonus.

Characteristics

How much is

Unfortunately, I finished the first review of this disc, and only then got to watch the price of analogues on the Internet. The price for Seagate Game Drive 2 TB is $ 100. According to "Yandex. Market ", the value in the Russian stores varies from 6800 to 10 000 rubles. Surprisingly, the identical external drives to 2TB from other manufacturers with 5400 rpm, 32MB buffer and USB 3.0 are about the same. Less well-known brands such carriers are asking for a little less, but more commonly known - sometimes even more which means that all my thoughts about the appropriateness of the overpayment for the design, in this case make no sense.

in total

Seagate Game Drive for Xbox - it's cool. Design that fits perfectly in the Xbox ecosystem. A bunch of extra space to play. A small performance gain. Defective, but still compatible with the Xbox 360. Ability to use as a regular external drive for PCs with USB 3.0. And all this without any tangible overpayment for exclusivity. We would like to expand the amount of storage is beautiful its console? Here it is, the perfect option. Xbox gamers have among his relatives or friends? Such a gift would be better than any game.

Seagate Game Drive for Xbox