Customer Ratings & Reviews

It works great, though be warned, you cannot launch games optimized for the Xbox series S and X directly from the expansion, you’ll have to transfer those games to the internal hard drive to launch them. Old gen games work great though and you’ll never have to deal with storage space issues again

Using it for my series S. Works as intended, but don't expect use this for any new seriess/x games. Format was pretty easy and now I have more storage for non s/x games on my xbox. One feature I like is the green light, adds more color to my gaming setup.

It’s easy to setup, no hassle and will give you the extra storage you need. I really like the green light it emits when it’s on so that’s pretty cool. Overall a good purchase.

Works great, great amount of storage for the price as well. Very sleek and compact. Also runs fast so big games aren’t an issue.

Believe it or not, I didn't actually purchase this drive for the Xbox. That said, anyone that understands how the new Series X|S works, you will understand that (at the time of this review) Microsoft has not authorized any external drives to actually RUN games, but you can STORE them on these drives. I'd recommend you get the 1TB SSD model though, not the 4TB HDD that I'm running. Seagate is one of the only vendors authorized to make the Expansion Card for the Series X|S -- so if RUNNING games from additional storage is what you are after, make sure you get that drive. Storage here is fine. :) For me, I wanted to drive to connect to my M1 Mac Mini. As much as I'd love to add 4TB of NVMe, that's entirely cost-prohibitive - roughly $650+ if I took that path. Besides, I'm using this as storage primarily. So yes, this drive works just find on PC or Mac (or Linux). You may need to format to use it how you like. The drive is extremely quiet, and ironically I'm replacing a 10TB Backup Plus/Game Drive hub from Seagate. Out of the box, the old drive was clickity-clackity and sounded faulty. Controls for drives like this are limited on a Mac, so it would fire up and grind and ding and I just had had enough. I was hesitant to go with another Seagate, but I already had a 2.5" form factor running as a Time Machine Backup in the same 4TB capacity. It's been incredibly quiet by comparison, and this new drive is no different. Even after moving 1.7TB of data the unit stayed cool (barely warm even). The limits of the drive are the mechanical side, not the USB 3 side. While I'd like to push the throughput higher, Blackmagic gave it a 120MB/s write and 108MB/s read speed on every test I threw at it. Since this is mostly my music library and OneDrive/Dropbox local storage, it's not the end of the world. I can always move files to the internal SSD or my external SanDisk Extreme SSD if speed is necessary, such as movie editing. The biggest downside is that the Seagate Drive Toolkit tells me there is a Driver available, but it requires me to lower the security of the M1 Mac to authorize it on macOS 12.x Monterey. I temporarily did this thinking it would install or update the driver and then I could flip it back, but that didn't change anything. It really only appeared to tweak the on/off status of the Green LED bar on the front and the white status LED on the back. As soon as I put my Mac back into the enhanced security mode, it flagged the driver extension and I lost those options. I'm okay with that but it is annoying. Can't speak to longevity, but as I mentioned I own several of the prior generations of this same 4TB drive (STDR400901 from Dec 2016 and STEA4000407 from Nov 2018). The older one runs almost non-stop during the day for my Time Machine backup, while the other is the White Xbox Game Drive and stored and ran most of my XB1X games for years. Both drives have been rock solid, so I assume this one will be too. The only drive that wasn't was the bulkier 3.5" Backup Plus model, which sounds like an old dot-matrix printer most of the day. Should you get it? YES... as long as you are only needing it for storage. You will not run games or bandwidth intensive transfers and be happy. Get the SSD model if you want that.

2 TB of storage allows you to hold a lot of games on the external HD. Works like a charm, easy to use. Be aware, this drive does not allow you to play X/S series games directly from it, you would need to transfer the file to the xbox hard drive. Does, however, work for XboxOne and 360 games, which is mostly what I use it for.

After getting the Xbox series S. I needed much more space to download all the games i wanted to play. This thing is a life saver! Makes transferring games over as easy as can be. Although take note that it's not an SSD so it'll take just a bit for load time. Bit overall great product

This is a cost effective way to increase storage on your Xbox. I was looking for something affordable as opposed to the extra storage cards that are over $200, and so far, this is working out great. My son is able to manage his storage appropriately and access any games that are stored on the external drive. Highly recommend if you want to spend under $200 for additional storage.

Great to store games on. Be aware that you can’t play games that are stored on the drive, you need to transfer the game to internal storage to play.

Great product witha great price, but be warned!!! It does not play newer games from this drive. No call of duty or r6 running off of this, xbox has it locked so new games only play off the main hdd. Will play older games from the drive, but not the big ones, or newer a list games.

This guy came in so handy when it comes to keeping storage for the games to play and also just a great device for my xbox!!

Great solution to space issues, easy to use just plug and play and compatible with new XBOX series X. A much cheaper option than the flash drive for the same result!

I needed more storage for my xbox games and this offered a lot for the price. Also the cool green light! Very easy to install.

I needed enough space for my Xbox One X To be able to enjoy all of my games without worrying about running out of space which a basic Xbox is built with limited space ,so I decided to get this 2Tb storage and I still haven’t filled it up with enough games to this day and I’ve had it for quite some time now,the green LED that is built into it is also pretty cool feature to let you know it’s connected

The Seagate Hard drive did exactly what I was looking for- it held almost 30+ games for the Xbox Series S. Highly recommend

Works perfectly. Can’t complain at all. Very good.

Great storage!! Service was great!!! It has helped me to download more games!!

extra storage at a good price, easy to install and use. Xbox series S is running smooth.

Work great so son could store up other x box games he had from older console

What else to say other than it can hold a massive amount of games from Xbox 360 to Xbox One, the read speed is fast, and no issues have come up.