Xbox One - 500gb or 1tb?

Now33

I'm looking into buying the Xbox One for the kids for Christmas. The best package deals with games seem to be for the 500gb version, but ideally I'd like as much storage as possible, so would prefer the 1tb.

But do I really need a 1tb? The deals are more expensive, and some research online suggests that if your hard drive fills up, you can always connect to an external hard drive.

Any Xbox owners offer any advice here?

Lumstorm

I don't have a Xbone instead I have a PS4 and found I quite quickly filled the 500gb with game installs and updates, so I replaced it with a 2tb.

Andyd_3

1TB all the way.

We have had ours a couple of months and already the hard drive is 38% full. That's a couple of game downloads from Xbox gold and 3 purchased games on disc. I think that now games are copied across to the hard drive to improve load times as compared to say our old 360. Whatever its doing its eating up the space !!

RobTang

If you don't mind the external drive hanging off the xbox and potential lower resell price the external drive is the way to go.


I only looked up the raw prices on game but the price diff is £70 and that will get you a 2tb external drive. So for the price of the 1tb xbox you can have a 2.5tb xbox


There's no loss of loading speed either and apparently if you get fast drive it will load the game faster off the external driver.

Red_Army

Deffo the 1TB,

Bought my xbox one in June and i have already filled up the 1 TB hard drive. Alot of the games now are 30gb and over to install plus when you get map packs this adds on about another 10 gig so your drive fills up really quickly.

I recently bought a Seagate external 5TB hard drive for the xbox one which was only £99 on Amazon.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Seagate-Expansion-Desktop-inch-External-Drive/dp/B00UNA1O0W/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1448590899&sr=8-1&keywords=seagate+5tb

You can buy any external hard drive to use on xbox one as long as it is USB 3.0 then the xbox will recognise it.