Xbox Series S Cannot Put Dlc On External Hard Drive

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  1. CrazyDash

    CrazyDash Well-Known Member

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    I wanted to report an issue I encountered while transferring my TSW DLC over to TSW6. Before, I was able to put DLCs onto my external hard drive to save space. However, I can no longer do this on TSW6 since it says if I transfer my content to my external hard drive, it will not be playable due to the needs for “faster storage”. I don’t see why this would be an issue now when my content has previously worked just fine on my external hard drive, so I would hope that this would be able to be fixed because I do not have enough storage on my Xbox to download all of my content.
     
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  2. JazzyGeofferz

    JazzyGeofferz Active Member

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    Did you ever get a reply to this? I'd happily take slightly longer load times due to external storage being used over having to pick and choose what to have installed on my console.
     
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    eMAyTeeTee Well-Known Member

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    What external drive are you using? An expansion drive that goes into the slot on the back of the console? Or a drive that plugs in via USB? Because Xbox Series games can only be launched from the former
     
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  4. lexie

    lexie Well-Known Member

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    Only Xbox One and Xbox 360 games can be played from a "nornal" usb-drive. Xbox Series games has to be installed on internal storage or expansion card.

    Xbox series games do need a good data throughput, otherwise you get asset streaming and loading issues.

    People will use a 5400 rpm disk, seeing issues with a game and start complaining at Microsoft / publisher / dev about the game is not working.
     
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