Reduced external SSD boot times and real internal storage – new information for Xbox Series X

Declared Microsoft internal SSD size from Xbox series x in reality, it turned out to be 20% less than the declared volume. For information on this, see the new console preview from IGN

As noted in the material, of 1 TB, the end user actually has 802 GB available storage, while the remaining 198 GB are occupied by the OS and system files… In this case, buyers will be able to expand the internal storage of the Xbox Series X with a special external memory card from Seagate 1 TB. In this case, the amount of usable space available on it is also slightly lower and amounts to 920 GB

A cheaper alternative is third party SSD / HDD, suitable for backward compatible projects or temporary storage of next generation games. According to separate estimates of the portal VentureBeat, carryover Assassin’s Creed: Origins 49GB external HDD to internal Xbox Series X storage takes about eight minutes… In the case of an external SSD, this figure drops to two minutes, while the use of a solid-state drive also reduces load times: the same Assassin’s Creed: Origins started from an external SSD in 10.77 seconds, which is slightly slower than an internal SSD, which coped in 10. 15 seconds. Meanwhile, loading the game from a regular hard drive took almost three times as long – 30.22 seconds.

Xbox Series X will be released 10th November at the same time with Xbox series s… The younger console has a declared storage capacity of 512 GB, but how many of them will actually be available for games is still unknown.

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