When considering the best Cyber Monday deals on external storage, it's crucial to consider whether you're looking for a hard disk drive (HDD) or solid-state drive (SSD) for your Xbox.

The 512GB Game Drive for Xbox SSD from Seagate retails for a jaw-dropping $210. To put that in perspective you could buy an Xbox-branded Seagate 4TB external HDD for $184.

The PS5 and Xbox Series X will employ SSDs rather than standard hard drives, which could help games load much quicker than we’ve ever seen on consoles before.

There are some possibilities. We could see a single M.2 NVMe PCIe 3.0 SSD, or a hybridized SSD and HDD with tight cohesion and synergy with other components via tiered storage.

Official 4TB Xbox Seagate HDD: $150 $87.99 on Amazon The Xbox Series X has a bespoke internal SSD that will be required to run games specifically optimized for the system, so what's the point in ...

1TB Seagate Storage Expansion Card for Xbox Series X/S - £184.99 at Amazon (was £219.99) WD 4TB external hard drive - £75.45 at Amazon (was £104.99) ...

Whether you want a fast SSD or an external hard drive, we’ve rounded up the best options to expand your Xbox Series X or Series S storage so you can store more games.

On PS5 and Xbox Series X/S hard drives can only be used to store games, not actually play them; stored games must be copied onto a fast-enough SSD to make them playable.

The Xbox One arrives with a 500GB HDD built-in, and in contrast to the PlayStation 4's easily-accessed storage, it's not meant to be accessed or replaced by the user, ever. While we'll probably ...

Used in Xbox LIVE databases, a FlashStore setup was 60x faster than a standard RAM/HDD system and 5x faster than a top of the line commercial SSD. [via HardMac and via CDRInfo] ...

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The HDD’s limited functionality means the internal SSD is going to be the preferred storage drive for both old and new games. Microsoft’s and Sony’s machines both feature NVMe SSDs.