“Will this run on the xbox one x console and does it support 4k gaming?”
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Yes it will work with xbox ones of any kind. It is a slower spinning drive instead of SSD so games may take a bit longer to load but you're buying capacity not speed.
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Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Its difficult to say as I did not purchase these for that purpose so I don't want to tell you a definitive YES or NO, but what I can tell you is this, According to Microsoft these are the compatible drives with the Xbox One X console WD 4TB My Passport Portable. The best Xbox One external hard drive. ... Toshiba 1TB Canvio Advance. Best budget Xbox One external hard drive. ... Seagate 2TB/4TB Xbox One Game Drive. The official Xbox One external hard drive (and it's a good one too!) ... Seagate Expansion 8TB. ... Samsung 860 EVO 500GB SSD. ... Lacie Rugged Mini 1TB. As you can see there is no 5TB WD EasyStore on this list yet that is what I have been using on my Xbox one and now my Xbox One X and it works fine as long as you can deal with the slightly longer load time for some games, its not terrible considering that the internal 500GB, 1TB and even the 2TB drives in these consoles are butt slow compared to 7,200 RPM drives or to modern SSDs so my suggestion is this; Pick up a Samsung 860 EVO 1TB for $99 to $109 on sale right now from various places including Best Buy at times, and then use the remainder of your 12TB budget to get a 5TB to 8TB WD or Seagate External which should run you $79.99 to $109.99 putting your total around $179.98 to $219.98 which puts you in the ball park of the one 12TB drive. Then clone your internal Xbox One (or Xbox One X) drive using a $19.99 Wavlink Dock from Newegg or other places, unless you already have a way to clone a drive, there are many videos out there on youtube to show you how to do this, Gamers Nexus has a awesome video showing a screen split into 4 sections loading the same game on a Evo 970, a Evo 860, a Hybrid Firecuda and a standard Baracudda HDD (the times between the 970 and 860 are very close, but the times comparing either the 970 ot 860 to either the firecuda or barracuda are stunning) so get that internal drive replaced with a 1TB SSD 9dO NOT GET A LARGER DRIVE as the XBOX formatting system will ignore anything over 968GB so if you shell out money for a 2TB 970 EVO SSD you will be very upset as you will barely get 1TB out of it, so stick with a Evo 860 1TB and then connect the 5TB, 6TB, or 8TB (I would recommend the WD as backblaze has listed no less than 5 Seagate drives and no less than 5 HSGT drives on their top 13 most failed drives for 2019 in their data center ( https://www.backblaze.com/blog/hard-drive-stats-q2-2019/ ) , which has over 400,000 drives in it, yes you read write, they have over 400,000 drives, checkout backblaze for a list of the top highest failure rate drives. Yes I know that HSGT has acquired the manufacturing for Western Digital but as of December 2nd the 12TB drives I purchased at Best Buy are still WD 12TB drives and NOT some HSGT model number internally so I would say stick with them. As for Seagate, I used to love their drives but in the last 5-6 years I have had seven (7) 3TB Barracuda drives just up and die on me in three of my NAS boxes, and I have them connected to VA1500 UPS battery backups and I take them to the shop and use a air compressor to clear any dust and debris from the NAS boxes every 3 months so it is not a heat issue, and they are mainly used for internal file sharing and temporary backup of files, so its not like they are constantly reading or writing every hour of everyday and out of 12 drives, 7 failed in the last 5-6 years which is fairly disappointing considering how much Seagate touted their performance and reliability. Well that should cover it all, I am thinking about converting my YouTube channel to focus more on hardware and troubleshooting issues rather then the hobby items I have on there now so if you subscribe to my channel for free you can keep up with me and make suggestions on what you may need help or advice on. Milo Hajek VipersHardware
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Please try again later.oh I think I forgot to touch on the 4k gaming, first let me start with saying that 4k gaming is a gimmick, I purchased a LG OLED C8 series 65" last Christmas and compared to my friends brand new TCL 4k, or another friends Samsung QLED 4k this LG OLED with the Alpha 9 AI processor is by far the best but not because its just 4k, as I said its a gimmick, the main things to look for are HDR10 & HDR10+ support, High Gamma Range capabilities, most important is a high refresh, don't fall for the naming, everyone from LG, to Samsung, to Sony, to all the other brands are calling their refresh something like "trumotion" or "Truemotion", or "MotionFlow", or some other spin to give their screens a higher rating ….ok look this has a 480 MotionFlow Rate (well that is at best 240 Hertz and most likely a quad plexed 120 hertz refresh which is why "gaming" monitors with 144 Hertz or 180 Hertz refresh cost more for a 27" or 31" than a 55" or 65" 4k HDTV, its the guts that make the difference. I have a guide I wrote up last year when I was researching what TV I would get and its about 40 pages plus loads of videos and reviews from magazines and from what I found you want a OLED (Organic Light Emitting Diode) screen, with a modern high end AI processor, something like LGs Alpha 9 (in my C8 series) or the refreshed Alpha 9ii (in the C9 series) it has variable refresh which if you are going to be gaming then that is a must have feature plus OLED really gives you tremendous color via wide gamma range and true blacks because the organic diodes (unlike QLED, or LED or the very old LCD screens) an turn completely off, so when you watch a letterbox film there is no more top an bottom bar in 16x9 or 16x10 ratio, all you see on the screen is the movie the way it was meant to be seen so those LG commercials you have probably been seeing where they say "its OLED or its OLED" are so true, the Quantum Light Emitting Diodes in the Samsung screens just can't pull it off, check out Digital Trends website for videos on reviews. As for your Xbox One X 4k gaming experience, make sure you have the right cables HDMI 2.0 AND HDCP 2.2 (this is very important especially if you are running your console through a stereo receiver, you really need HDCP 2.2 NOT 2.0. As for 8k screens there really aren't any hard specs yet as pretty much everything is AI upscaled on a 8k screen so the AI Processors are going to be an even bigger part of the future equation when getting a 8k screen but once again, its a gimmick, there are other features that are more important than just pixel count, such as refresh, any gamer will tell you that in a serious gaming match refresh is akin to network or system lag, its the difference between life and death, and that goes for refresh rate on your screen so get a good OLED TV with a MINIMUM actual refresh of at least 120 Hertz, there are some 240 Hertz screens out there but they are usually limited runs, hard to find, and pricy, like my 55" LG 3D HDTV (granted its only 1080p) but it has a real 240 Hertz refresh rate and everyone that has seen a movie on my screen with my Denon 9.2 receiver and my 6 floor speakers, 4 ceiling mounted speakers (Atmos) B&W center channels (one front and one rear) and 3 sub woofers, one up front and two in the rear, are quite literally blown away if I turn it up to 65 to 68 on the volume and that is with my old LG screen, my new 65" OLED is a 240 TruMotion which if you read the manual (Always RTFM my friends) then it straight up tells you that it is a scaled 120 Hertz refresh to mimic 240 Hertz and that is the same for everyone now, Samsung, Sony, Sanyo, TCL, LG, RCA and all the others, so RTFM. once you have picked out your screen, find a good receiver, you can find a fairly good mid range one for $380 to $780 (high range receivers are going to start at $1,200 and can exceed $10,000, so unless you are making money from gaming and need a serious practice room at home, stick with the mid range) next pick your cables, like is said, make sure you get HDMI 2.0 UHD with HDCP 2.2 standards (don't skimp on cables, expect to pay $40 to $80 per cable) and then there are speakers, unless you are doing stereo headphones, but I would still recommend speakers, you can go low mid range on your basic floor speakers but go for something quality like B&W for your center channel as that is were most of your dialog and sound effects will be noticed, I remember going from my $149 JBL center channel to a $550 B&W center channel with Kevlar cones and it was absolutely unbelievable (also available at Best Buy in the magnolia department), were I used to get minor clipping on the center channel in really intense scenes now there is nothing but beautiful sound and clarity so budget that in, NO SOUND BARS, only people that don't know any better use those, and then speaker wire, go with at least 14 gauge (don't let some sales person push you into 16 or 18 gauge as you will lose more then the normal 1/4 watt per foot with that but you will also degrade signal on longer runs, like if your theater room is like mine (36 Long, 14 Wide and 9 Height) that 36 foot run ends up being more like 48 to 50 feet after you account for the horizontal distance as well as any slack needed to run it under the floor, I ran mine in the basement ceiling for the theather room above it and that worked out great) I got several basic speaker wire rolls from Amazon that were 12 gauge high grade shielded for $96 per 100 foot roll, so yes it was painful to spend nearly $400 on wiring but it all makes a difference and if your going to do it right, and you are really concerned about "4k" gaming then either save up and do it right or go and buy a 70" 4k Vizio TV with some generic speaker bar and then don't complain to me because you hate it, as I just told you what works, and how to set it up and even how I did my setup. Also when you setup your receiver, DO NOT SKIP the microphone setup test for the speakers, it calibrates the receiver to the speakers and that is what helps give you the best DTS or ATMOS sound. Regards Milo Hajek VipersHardware
Sorry, there was a problem. Please try again later.Drives have nothing to do with 4k gaming so this will have no effect on that. As for the Xbox One X, I believe that it only has an 8TB limit per drive so while you can still use this for that, there's going to be about 4TB wasted. Go for 2 of the 8TB drives instead.
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