The Oct 2019 - Oct 2021 Out?

[deadlegion]

The 2tb ext wouldn't be worth much. Well, at least here I know people don't care about the official drives.

[Zaladane]

Yeah supply should be good. Major city and pretty damn close to the states and all here.

But I guess you never know.

[Zaladane]

The 2tb ext wouldn't be worth much. Well, at least here I know people don't care about the official drives.

Got it on sale for what would have been the same price for a non official one (Seagate I believe) I assume they're exactly the same drive just with an Xbox logo painted on and sold for 10 bucks more lol

[deadlegion]

Recently I've been trying to figure out what countries I can actually import from without having to pay extra for DHL, EMS or whatever.

Japan I can only get DHL apparently. Which sucks bad.
UK can be hit and miss but it seems Royal Mail still works atm (that could change though, I think they might be getting more restrictions but idk).
A lot of EU countries won't ship using standard methods.
US will ship, but on ebay a lot of sellers use gsp which I avoid.
China no issues at all, via China Post or whatever, even Singapore Post but that takes longer than other options.

It's just a mess and local prices of some things have gone crazy, but a lot of the Chinese sourced stuff is still ok.

[deadlegion]

Got it on sale for what would have been the same price for a non official one (Seagate I believe) I assume they're exactly the same drive just with an Xbox logo painted on and sold for 10 bucks more lol

Oh they were always priced more than $10 over the standard versions here, except when being cleared.
Just never seemed tempting as you can only run two external drives at the same time. People would go for the 4TB then the 6TB drives, but now 8TB is cheap enough and that's the sensible choice given the console limitations ( two drives connected, 16TB total cap iirc).

[deadlegion]

The first ext I used on my XB1 S was 2TB but it was a recycled one I had here. I got a 4TB after that but now I use that drive for vids.
Currently have 1x 8TB which I think only has about 3TB free atm

[Zaladane]

Might have been more than 10 but either way was the same price when it was on sale. 2tb seemed enough at the time. Although if I get the new system at some point I would def go much higher.

[deadlegion]

Some of the games I have installed are huuge. RDR2, I think Halo 5 and collection are big. FO76 is largish.
There are a bunch of others that all add up and I have a lot of my BC titles installed (not all though).
I actually don't have all my XB1 games installed either, I wouldn't be surprised if I don't have enough space.

[Zaladane]

Yeah RDR2 is big. FF15 I think is big too. Umm would have to check my games. Have about 75 installed right now - of course some are pretty shit small.

I used to have all the Halo games installed and altogether it was huuuuge.

[deadlegion]

Something I only found out recently...
Some XB1 digital games (potentially including Xbox and 360 BC titles) have been delisted due to licensing issues. Sometimes they get relisted (probably most actually) but if you haven't actually bought them and they are currently delisted there's a good chance you can't download them. The only guaranteed way to always have access to them is to have a physical copy but with most titles just purchasing them digitally is good enough. Gold/Gamepass etc is just leasing and technically even digital purchases are leases not 100% ownership.

[deadlegion]

I think the same thing can happen with PSN but I haven't used it for ages myself.

[Zaladane]

Something I only found out recently...
Some XB1 digital games (potentially including Xbox and 360 BC titles) have been delisted due to licensing issues. Sometimes they get relisted (probably most actually) but if you haven't actually bought them and they are currently delisted there's a good chance you can't download them. The only guaranteed way to always have access to them is to have a physical copy but with most titles just purchasing them digitally is good enough. Gold/Gamepass etc is just leasing and technically even digital purchases are leases not 100% ownership.

Yeah I've noticed that with a couple (360 games actually) like Left for Dead 2 and the first 2 Ultimate Alliance games on Xbox One. And yeah Gamepass is basically a rental service as things come and go and once they leave that's that but the core Microsoft games are said to always be on it like the Fables, Halos etc..

As I recall it's the same on the Playstation. Been a long time myself since I've been on that.

[Ragnar]

( two drives connected, 16TB total cap iirc)

There's a cap? And it's possible to hit at launch? Jesus christ, they better be capable of changing that with updates. There's talk of creating petabyte HDDs, possibly within the next 5 years. Sure that probably wouldn't be consumer grade, but maybe we'll be seeing 80TB drives within the console lifespan. Previous systems saw faaaar mare than 10x size upticks in their lifetime.

[deadlegion]

Xbox One.
I don't have a Series X.

[deadlegion]

From what I understand the cap is only applicable to drives you have currently connected.
So 2TB is the max internal size (it's possible to prep a drive for that) and then 2x 8TB ext all at the same time.
Maybe you can just use 1x 16TB but idk.

You can have more ext hard drives than that with installed games on them, you just can't have more than the cap connected at once.
So really the storage is unlimited as long as you don't mind swapping drives.
The OS scans your externals and adds the games on there to your games list.
I've booted by XB1 S without my ext connected, games disappear. Hook up the drive again and the games are added back.