How Much Faster is It? [Xbox One X SSD Upgrade Analysis]

[@RealNeatGames]

If you have questions, check here first as they may have been answered already. Update: Not sure of how recently this has happened but it appears Microsoft offers an offline update option which should bypass the need to run a script. support.xbox.com/help/hardware-network/console/system-update-solution/offline-system-update ✏What SSD did you use? www.sandisk.com/home/ssd/ssd-plus We used the 960GB variant ✏What is the spec of the SSD? SATA 3.0; sequential read up to 535 MB/s; sequential write up to 450 MB/s ✏The Xbox One uses SATA II . . . or is it SATA III Here's what we know . . . kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKGYoICFl9SAsKs ✏Will this work on (other version of Xbox One)? We have yet to do so, but according to our sources, this process should work the same on all versions of the Xbox One ✏Is there an SSD size limit? Yes. The largest standard size it'll use is 2TB. You can go bigger but after 2 it gets a little wonky. And as far as we know, you can go as low as 500GB. ✏Can I use a (name brand) drive? As far as we understand, any SATA SSD that is within known size limits should work. ✏I heard Microsoft doesn't allow drive swapping. Microsoft allows replacement of the internal storage, they're just not going to make it easy. ✏What if I put something other than the Xbox files on the drive (Windows OS, random files, blank etc.)? Probably nothing? Let us know if you try and we'll do the same. ✏(External/Internal) is better because (X) A valid argument can be made for both methods. It's really a matter of preference. ✏PS4 makes it easier to do this. That seems to be the case. We definitely plan on giving it a go. ✏How would this perform with (other game, 360 game). We can only speak to the performance of the games tested. Though in most cases, you could likely expect similar results. ✏Can you fix my Xbox (or other console, PC, etc..). Sorry, no.. Of course, if you have a question not listed above, we will still do our best to answer them.

[@justinpi6267]

You don't have to clone the drive. You can put in an ssd formatted to ntfs, then just do an offline update. Only requires a 6gb thumb drive to get the files from microsoft website to your xbox. I used samsung 860 evo 1 tb. Unsure if other capacities work due to lack of funds for more drives. August 2020

[@LouisDuran]

Do you think using an SSD with faster specs would have made a difference, or were you running into the limitations of the SATA3 interface?

[@RealNeatGames]

@@LouisDuran It would appear the limiting factor is the interface. Even with an NVMe, there was no additional improvement. You can see that attempt here --> kzbin.info/www/bejne/kIaUapWnm9mMn7M

[@KeiferHunnifordPhotography]

Dude. You nailed what actually needed to be tested. Without this I'd be ripping console apart for no good reason. Sending you a free air guitar!

[@abasiczombie.]

It’s really not that hard and the start up time reduction is well worth it

[@jsward96]

@@abasiczombie. Not to mention the drive will need to be replaced anyways when it dies. Might as well put an SSD in before it comes to that.

[@Nimbus12]

I'm going to install internal anyway. More sleek. Quiter, more reliable and also a good time to replace the thermal paste

[@michael_bullard]

I really appreciate that you waited until you determined stability before following up. And so many tests!

[@BO0O0O0O0O0O01]

I’m happy that you ran 3 separate tests on each option, how it was presented in the graphs with separate sections. This was a very informational video and has helped make an informed decision

[@ndabarin1]

I installed an SSD into my Xbox One X early this year and changed the thermal paste (Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut) on the APU. I would like to say that my console runs really quiet even while gaming in some games.

[@SoheiJayce]

What type and size is the SSD?

[@wireproof]

Same here! Used Artic Silver 5 and a Samsung QVO 1TB SSD. It’s super easy! And really quiet now!

[@bobjordan5597]

Tyson Edwards Considering doing this since my hard drive just broke. Do you setup an ssd the same you would a hdd?

[@buckmajor]

Is the internal ssd better than external ssd? If so, why is that?

[@bobjordan5597]

Optimus Prime Xbox boots quicker

[@remander3873]

Thanks for doing this. Love my external, and knowing the internal only really impacts boot time reinforces my decision.

[@cubanomx2]

great review. for the ones with a short time, go directly to 04:35 so you can compare hdd times vs internal ssd and external ssd.

[@aquaman5464]

Extremely Pleased to say that the upgrade process for me has been a huge success. Thanks for the videos and source guide link for xfix's channel for the tear down and powrshell script. The performance of my xbox has dramatically improved with load times even more so than my ps4 pro that also upgraded to an ssd.

[@keystonekid]

this was extremely helpful. the graphs u up. were just what i needed

[@guenther1schmidt]

thanks for sharing these interesting results ... I am already using an external SSD and was wondering if I can speed up with an internal as well. Your results showed that it only significantly improves boot times - Thank you so much - you saved me a lot of work :) Kudos to you!

[@Zetzoh]

Swap both my OG ONE and ONE S but got lazy on the X, looks like I'm not missing out anything. Thanks for the video and all the test!

[@nintendoconvert4045]

It’s 2021 and I still find this helpful. Thank you! I have a 2GBps USB NVMe and I will stick with the external setup based on this.

[@tonez2111]

30 seconds might not seem like a lot but throughout a whole game that difference in load time will be noticeable. glad you showed the difference in several games

[@Matty-Z]

Subbed! Content like this potentially saves us money and forces console manufacturers to improve their products. I hope you do a Series X external SSD test showing game load times and whether or not Quick Play functions. I'll be doing this test myself, but I don't film for KZbin.

[@RealNeatGames]

Test results for the PS4 Pro will be up soon. There are plans to do testing on the Series X as soon as it launches, we'll cover both the internal as well as the optional proprietary external SSD to see if it's worth it compared to a regular USB drive. PS5 will follow at a later date. Stay Tuned . . .

[@Klean9]

I know this is an old video but still helpful to me today. Thanks!

[@gamerscore88]

I’m a little late to the SSD swap on my XBOX One X, but this video was very insightful. Thanks 👍

[@JasPlun]

Easiest way is to simply clone the drive from the Xbox to the new SSD. Put in the cloned SSD and your good to go. If you do not have the docking station there are other ways to clone. That being said you can go to the Xbox website and download the software and put it on a Flash drive and install it that way. Xbox One S and X are easy they just need one download. The Original Xbox One is a little bit more tricky as it requires 2 downloads to complete. Good video I enjoyed it and this info I just posted I learned recently so it was probably not well known at the time of this video:P

[@W_Strone_Swiatla]

N7 - ME One of the best games I ever played! Very useful content, thank you!

[@cryangallegos]

Had to replace a corrupted X HDD a few months ago so swapped in an SSD. Almost 4 months to the day the NEW one corrupted so bad my computer couldn't even read it. The OS is not very robust against failed updates, I have to say. Anyways, luckily the X is fairly easy to open up, so a couple hours was all it took to reformat and reinstall

[@cryangallegos]

So, just reformatted my internal dtove for thr 4th or 5th time. I'm about 90% sure that the 8GB NAND flash chip on the motherboard has bad sectors that are causing the catastrophic update issue that keeps crashing the internal drive. Happened with the 1910 update today. The chip I'm referring to is the SK Hynix H26M42003GMR 8 GB eMMC NAND Flash and I don't know if swapping it with a new one (not an easy process in itself) would even be possible.

[@Noel-ui8dr]

cryangallegos was this after error E102/105?

[@iMann_iFail]

The fact you added the comparison of the external as well.. is a massive help. I’m still going to exchange the internal with an SSD for my OneX because I’ll probably stare my external HDD between OneX and Series X as I’m assuming they will use the same format.

[@Mew_York_Kitty]

Thankful for your contribution boss - Subbed & Fan 4 Ever! 😎🍾🍻🤙🏼🔥

[@maskoblackfyre]

This is neat info. Thanks for making it. Now, did you or could you do a test on stuff like "texture pop in" and similar things where the SSD should really come in hot?

[@RealNeatGames]

We would definitely like to. We're trying to find a way to to test it reliably and consistently.

[@donjohnson9114]

this system came with an SSD was a steal back in 2019 at $299

[@Keo]

I think it's a pretty accurate video and well informative, I will swap the internal hdd with an ssd anyhow to hopefully improve significantly the boot time and the os response time, also I don't want to have an extra device attached to the console that somebody can hit and disconnect while it's on.

[@magaiverdainfo]

Thank you! I've made a lot research and by the datasheet, Xbox does'n have a sata controller, It uses a USB 3.0 to sata bridge, what means that the rate limit of ~280MB/s, instead of ~500MB/s of a regular sata 3 SSD.

[@RealNeatGames]

Interesting, That makes sense. That certainly gets us closer to the numbers we got in our test. It's too bad Microsoft doesn't share this information and we are relegated to deductive reasoning. Thanks for sharing!

[@magaiverdainfo]

@@RealNeatGames it's so sad. Sony did the same on PS4. I think that is some mandatory spec from AMD APU. The datasheet i found, everything was connected to USB 3.0 controller and this USB controller directly to AMD APU and southbridge.

[@RealNeatGames]

Can you share a link to the datasheet?

[@magaiverdainfo]

@@RealNeatGames i'm trying to find it. I've found on my Chrome bookmarked pages, the site Eurogamer.net showing FailOverflow explaining this. www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2016-playstation-4-hack-confirmed-watch-the-linux-demo

[@RealNeatGames]

Cool, looks like an interesting read. Digital Foundry does good work. Well if you're able to find the other thing, just link it here.

[@whidbeyhiker4364]

Based on this my plan is to move my games to an external SSD, and just use the internal for the system. Doesn't seem worth voiding the warranty for what amounts to a small difference between internal and external SSD.

[@DFMurray]

The initial load dumps the games run files into ram. The parts that are all identical in time for SSD vs. HDD are files being run off the ram.

[@sithlordmaster181]

Daniel Murray very insightful

[@Shane-Singleton]

I'm very glad you did the 3-way comparison. While I have, in the past, done the difficult sector copies (using DD on the original Xbox back in the day), clones, mods, etc. As I have become lazier in my old age I am totally ok with just doing the USB external.

[@ilexcorp]

Wow thank you ! Best X SSD review on youtube!

[@AdrenalinnVapor]

When you tested the External SSD, did you have the internal SSD installed or the internal HDD installed? I feel like there should be four tests total. An external SSD test for each internal drive, a test for the onboard SSD and a test for the Internal SSD. Did the internal SSD made the dashboard snappier? I'm wondering if it's worth replacing my Internal HDD for an Internal SSD.

[@Astristul]

I've changed the default seagate 1TB from my XB1X with Samsung EVO 860 SSD, and the only bad part seems to be the latency recorded when you do it using the test from the settings menu. Before I was around 45-47 ms and now it's around 200 ms. But overall the OS feels a lot better in responsiveness and transition. The latency seems to be the only issue with an internal SSD.

[@andrekohler5792]

Great video with detailed test results.

[@Templar02]

Thank you for this information. Good video!

[@seanhudson1675]

Excellent, truly excellent, I watch a lot of tech review/comparison vids on youtube, and this is one of the most clear ever - keep up the good work!

[@GamertagO1]

Thanks bruh, this was exactly what I needed to see to make a decision.

[@zetaalam7665]

I have a xbox one s with 480gb ssd external and the difference is huge nice vídeo!

[@MrCarlosj0]

Appreciate the work you put into this video. I think the only benefit of having an internal ssd would be for the original Xbox One. That thing needed all the help it could get. Sad i had to part with it but getting myself the One X was worth it.

[@CovenantArmada]

I appreciate you doing this i've been thinking about doing it for a while but i didn't know if it was really worth it or not on console.

[@ARMAKUNI01]

Nice video and easy to follow. Some good information here. Thank you for the upload.

[@RealGengarTV]

Thanks for this. I was wondering about internal SSD loadtimes.

[@kilegram]

I wonder if those spots that are the same are times it is trying to connect to the game's service. That would make sense why the time is the same. There is no local processing really instead its waiting to get a response back from the games server to connect and that wait time is relatively steady.

[@Phantoma3]

Great test. I have all my games on an ext SSD and was wondering if I can get even better improvements with internal SSD. It turns out the diff is only 1-3 secs so I'm fine with that and won't bother.

[@WeiYanMayThu]

Thank you great review

[@joshyazel1200]

First time watching, I must have looked at it backwards. I watched it again and now it makes sense! lol

[@doktordray3825]

Hi, cool video! If I have an SSD, how can I connect it to the xbox? Sata to USB 3.0 adapter? Or will that make things a lot slower? THX!

[@RealNeatGames]

A SATA to USB connection should work just fine.

[@IndyMiraaga]

A very nice and thorough test indeed. I appreciate the detail and mentioning how you made sure to put it through system updates as people were once very worried about those issues. The only difference I really wanted to see was for download times and speeds, and if there was really a difference there or not when compared to an External SSD. But with the Series X hopefully being better in stock soon, I may just save my money and use it elsewhere instead. Maybe a NVMe for my PC or putting it towards a CPU or GPU upgrade, or even getting a Series X itself. Much appreciated though, definitely earned a sub from me for helping me save my money. 1.5 TB of external SSD storage is plenty for me.

[@RealNeatGames]

Thanks, glad you found it useful! The reason we haven't done anything with download times is that, at least for now, our download speeds are the limiting factor. It may be worth looking in to as quite a bit of time has passed. However, there is an additional drive test now. On the Series X, we tested the speed to copy from the internal to various external drives in our latest video.

[@JoshuaVasquez]

Perfect video dude! Thanks for sharing this :)

[@drcarrot415]

I think I’m gonna do an internal SSD install after seeing these videos. The quieter operation, albeit marginally better performance in some areas over external, and preserving the clean look of the Xbox one x all sell it for me. Also I have a 1TB SSD to spare

[@Angultra]

I'm surprised the boot up time isn't even faster with internal SSD. But navigating all the various menus, store etc. would surely be noticeably quicker with SSD as well?

[@PatrickMorgan]

if you optimize the drive in windows before you move it to the xbox, the boot time i've often gotten (ive testing it many times since the change) is between 26-32 seconds. form cold boot to desktop UI. navigating the menus is instant. almost no pause between my pressing a button and the menu moving. or loading.

[@mosscamnola]

just wanted to say this video is ABSOLUTELY PERFECT. please make all of the videos for everyone 🤷🏼‍♂️

[@felcs89]

Great video! Greetings from Brazil! 🇧🇷🎮

[@josephbrlt]

Hats off to ya bud! 👍🏼

[@PulpVision]

Upvote for the Mass Effect hoodie!😎 And yes, I cracked my system open and there is a big difference between HDD and an internal SSD!

[@Lorten369]

Yeah uuh. If I change the internal drive with a SSD. Don't it need like a back up or some sort of date on it to begin with? System wise? Would love to put in a SSD and external SSD. But need to know if a have to do a copy or anything from the main HDD.

[@RealNeatGames]

You do need to copy data over. Here is the link to the data transfer process --> kzbin.info/www/bejne/rnPZeHmLlrR6eJY If you use this method, everything you need will be on the new drive.

[@donfripp1901]

Thanks for this. Glad I went with an external SSD!

[@jonathanpage6813]

The loading parts where the SSD didn't seem to help is almost certainly when the xbox wasn't reading from the drive like uncompressing textures into RAM or other large files that are compressed to save space.

[@jeo4483]

Great Video, although not much of a difference in SSD connectivity I would much rather do it internally just because I'd like to take apart the console for learning experience.

[@MrScary-ue2ir]

Appreciate this, thanks. 👍

[@sloeginandsleep1170]

I fitted a 1TB SSD to a Xbox One X, primarily because the hard drive failed. Being that I'd have to take the old one out before putting it all back together, it made sense to do it. Took the time to clean, change the thermal paste and generally refresh the console. Also fitted one to a One S, but that's because I wanted more internal space and I had a spare 2TB SSD hanging around from a client who wanted a upgrade for the laptop and then cancelled. Simple.

[@drjones694]

THANK YOU !!! great video

[@alejandrobonfiglio506]

You my good sir earned my sub

[@grizgames6458]

Would love to see an updated video comparing this time along side the series s for those debating updating but on the fence bc I think they’ll be similar times

[@RealNeatGames]

We don't have the Series S, but we do have the X, with which we are currently testing. From a storage stand point, they should be similar performance since they both use the same drive technology. We are comparing it with the One X and OG Xbone, stay tuned.

[@markypancake]

My launch day Scorpio edition internal drive is faulty, so rather than pay Microsoft around £200 to replace it with whatever is on the shelf, I've decided to keep my mint Scorpio and replace the drive myself with a 500 GB SSD to get it back running and to help it run a little cooler without a mechanical drive. I went for 500 GB to keep the cost down and because I run my games from an external drive, so don't really need the internal storage. Got all the bits I need to do it and just need to make time to get it done now.

[@MisterBinx]

How about heat? The Xbox One S is pretty much a space heater even when idle. Did you notice a difference there?

[@user-fm8xs3hr3w]

I'm wondering if you noticed gameplay being affected. Like, due to the SSD if pop-in is lessened or other graphical things that involved streaming from a local drive.

[@RealNeatGames]

That is a good question. Unfortunately, we couldn't find a good way to reliably test that. We may revisit that though.

[@Warj-hm7jd]

Thank you for such a great video "series." Like many here I was looking into the update and going with a larger drive on the XB one X. With your results I don't see the hassle being worth it....now get it to support 4-6 tb internal SSD and I'm all in. With my research I run across some video's that explained games take a compressed file and decompress that using CPU and Memory. So... your equal times between HDD and SSD is that game play area. The HDD, SSD is not the limit and strictly CPU (AKA No difference even with better drive installed). Keep up the great video content! W.

[@Originalimoc]

I want that pacman light ww. where to buy it.

[@TKFive21]

Thanks for the video. I'd be curious to see the difference in load times with Borderlands 3 on an Xbox One X. On the internal HDD it takes over three minutes to load. About 2 mins 50 secs just on the Claptrap loading bar. Does anyone have some load times for internal SSD or external SDD loading BL3? Subnautica even? For me those, two games take the longest to load.

[@PsychedelicEcho]

very helpfull ! thank you for explaining!!

[@Ali-tx2hc]

Thanks for this information 👍 and good luck

[@nigelturner5300]

I'm grateful for the information thanks

[@haylspa]

there is also space usage and speed variable with ssd's rule of thumb your fastest speeds is going to be half and under of your drive storage space being used

[@RealNeatGames]

During testing, the SSD only had the games being tested on it so capacity was pretty low (this was mainly done to save time transferring files between drives) so our test should not have been subject to that variable. That being said, although there is a known performance decrease in SSDs as capacity increases, it starts anywhere between 70 to 90% and at its worst is not very significant, at least in the scope of what we were testing. Still though, this may be worth looking in to just to see how much it can affect this use case. If we have the opportunity, we'll test this and share it here.

[@PicksterTG]

The Xbox (and I think the PS4 too but I'm not 100% sure off the top of my head) actually caps the I O speed. So peak throughout is the same no matter on the type of drive or how it is connected. The only part that gives you a speed increase with the SSD is the much reduced random read and write times. This will be why certain sections of loading won't have shown much or any difference. They will have been loading large files where the random read speed won't many much or any difference.

[@RealNeatGames]

Do you have a link to any literature on that? We're very curious to know more about how the Xbox (and Playstation) loads games.

[@PicksterTG]

@@RealNeatGames Unfortunately I don't remember where I read it. With that knowledge though it becomes obvious how they can boast such a grand increase for the next generation. I don't know this as a fact but I'm sure the reason for limiting the bandwidth is to create parity between different types of drives and SATA vs USB3. So I don't personally mind so much that they did this. If you are wondering. From memory the data throughput that I remember I'd 60 megabytes/second for the Xbox One X, which you may remember actually boasted an increase in IO over the vanilla console. Which would put the One and One S at around 45 mb/s (I think, maybe 50?). If you run the numbers on load times that actually works out about right, given that One has around 5 gigs for developers and the X has 9 gigs. I did a little googling but on a quick search I couldn't find where I read about this. Take it with a pinch of salt as I have not seen it from official documentation. I just tend to absorb information like this and as I said running the numbers adds up give or take. Sorry I couldn't be more help though.

[@RealNeatGames]

No worries. Yeah, there definitely going to lean into the loading on next gen. One part of the equation we're missing is we haven't tested other versions of the Xbox One. This makes sense though. We'll keep digging but this definitely gives us something to go on. Thanks for sharing!

[@fitdude69]

I've been wanting to do a ssd upgarde with all the old generation systems for quite some time as they have better upload time for the games and it will be awhile before I get the new generation systems and I just enjoy playing my games and like doing stuff like this.

[@tomasyaczik2641]

Has there been any progress on a definitive answer on the SATA interface? In my own opinion I believe it might actually be an SATA III interface. USB 3.0 performs at 4.8Gb/s while SATA III is 6Gb/s. Although your results were nearly identical between the 2 SSDs, USB 3.0 vs SATA II has a much larger performance gap than USB 3.0 to SATA III. While neither situation explains the near identical results, SATA III seems to me, to lend itself as the more likely candidate. Thoughts?

[@RealNeatGames]

Everything we know up to this point you can find here > kzbin.info/www/bejne/mKGYoICFl9SAsKs

[@tomasyaczik2641]

@@RealNeatGames I saw that link, but it was a year old and hoped you had made progress. I've been trying to find where the traces on the board go from the m2 location to their various end points but have been completely unsuccessful as well as being unsuccessful in determining the capacitor sizes needed. One with 500 ohm resistance maybe but that doesn't help very much.

[@RealNeatGames]

You may be confusing it with something else. The video in the link was posted last month.

[@90Christopher]

What is the best sad for the Xbox One 2tb?

[@emigdioalaniz]

We have to also know that SSD makes a difference in speed, depending on the ssd you have may change "small" but will change. So, that brings me to the question of what SSD did you use??

[@yorkshirepud6676]

Thank you very much good information!

[@donniejep5745]

What if you want to install an internal ssd and use an external ssd as well? Will that help load times even more?

[@texas1step]

Can use a higher capacity ssd like samsung 30 terabite or 16

[@ArenaGames]

Hello, I would like to install ssd on my xbox one x, just exchange the HD for the SSD or do I need to install any drive on the ssd before?

[@brainpinker282]

I would love to see the Results for Borderlands 2 and 3. There are some scenarios where you have to close and start the Game on repeat. Farming a Sand hawk as an example.I don't need the comparison just the time you have. In case you own the Games of course. Oh btw i really like this video its more than informative. Good job

[@RealNeatGames]

Interesting idea. We'll see what we can do. And thanks for watching! Glad you like it 😄

[@rickyhill2341]

Have you redone all these tests, since Xbox officially provided firmware from their website for clean installs on new/replacement hard drives , which was this year?

[@RealNeatGames]

Not yet, but when the Series X comes out we will be revisiting this and comparing it.

[@rickcarp5453]

i got a update and all my games but 15 pined games are gone even all my but when i go to the store there still downloaded and and let me play them

[@rickcarp5453]

so i can not see 320 games but there playable only threw pins or gamestore

[@ilgamsultanov9319]

but is there any difference on FPS?

[@andreas2228]

Do you have the equipment to test the fps in warzone compared the internal HDD to a SSD? Because it loads and feels way better on even an external HDD. Even Textures also loading way faster. I bet there also is a FPS boost too!!

[@RealNeatGames]

Maybe? Don't have Warzone, but we could give it a shot with a game we do have.

[@carlosrobertoern9194]

Bom dia! Gostaria de saber como faço para instalar internamente um SSD 500 GB Seagate no meu XBOX ONE S? E se isso é possível? obrigado!

[@RealNeatGames]

Aqui está um link para uma desmontagem do Xbox One S. kzbin.info/www/bejne/sGGkaqyYbqhljZY A parte do disco rígido é a mesma. Desculpe, não encontrei nenhum recurso em português. Eu usei o Google translate para esta resposta.

[@BomarJr]

Hey great video! I'm not planning on upgrading to next gen but I do plan on doing something like this if it improves the general system responsiveness. Did you notice load times between apps and going through the UI snappier and more responsive?

[@RealNeatGames]

Not really. The only significant improvement noticed was in load times. However, no measurements were made beyond load times so there may be a slight improvement but not enough to draw ones attention.

[@cheemoeun8656]

This guys really thorough thanks your the my new tech advisor

[@MattiaRaggiDrum]

Very informative video thank you. What is the best cable to connect the external ssd with the xbox? Thank you

[@RealNeatGames]

If you get an external drive, the cable that comes with is good. If you don't have that, most USB cables should work fine, USB 3 (the blue plug) would be ideal.

[@LowlyEidolon]

Sorry if this was mentioned in the video, my phone doesn't play sound or display subtitles so I have to rely on pinned comments and other people's responces, Does your console work after a system update or factory reset using the 960GB SSD?

[@RealNeatGames]

Have not done a factory reset. But after over a year of using it almost daily and all the updates that have happened, the drive still works without issue.

[@LowlyEidolon]

@Revelator and do you get startup animations with that method?

[@LowlyEidolon]

@Revelator thanks, not sure if it is a good idea when the console is in preview program, and why use 1tb instead of 960GB?

[@LowlyEidolon]

@Revelator thank you for your helpfulness

[@PatrickMorgan]

@Revelator igot a cheap WD blue 1TB and its excellent. as long as the drive has a good Dram cache module the performance will be fine.

[@PatrickMorgan]

i have no idea how you optimized your SSD. but mine boots from cold boot in 27 seconds. I'm guessing you forgot to use the optimize option in windows after you transferred your drive over. or if it was installed fresh, I guess the xbox can't use Trim to optimize the drive after its first boot. First time i cloned my drive using Xfix's script, it was only a little faster than my original. similar to your drive results here. but after taking it out of the xbox and plugging it back into my pc, and optimizing the drive partitions one by one. i seen a huge boost in load times for everything. could also be the quality of the drive. Sandisk don't have a nand cache iirc. this may slow down access speed of the data.

[@jorgiewtf]

I’m Really considering doing this to my 1X as well but I just got a gaming pc with a 1tb ssd. Good video and it makes me still consider doing it just for fun. Would you say it would be a big difference if I just buy an external one and go through the usb3 port?

[@psycho-pf2jm]

Which pc

[@JoshuaVasquez]

Just subscribed too! Good luck with the channel!

[@tomasyaczik2641]

Can you tell me what make and model your ssd was?

[@RealNeatGames]

www.sandisk.com/home/ssd/ssd-plus We used the 960GB variant

[@valdainis]

If possible do SSHD analysis of seagate firecuda 2 TB.

[@RealNeatGames]

It would be interesting to see how a hybrid drive fares. Unfortunately, we don't really have a budget to purchase one. However, if we are able to get a hold of one, we'll definitely add that to list of things being tested.

[@valdainis]

@@RealNeatGames there are some videos of them being tested. And the results are quite good for the price.

[@crregazzamerone]

Did you change the thermal paste for the one x? I placed liquid metal on mine a month ago and it does seem to run smoother in game. Thermalnconstraints are one of all console problems.

[@RealNeatGames]

Not this time. That definitely would be a good thing to test next.

[@PatrickMorgan]

LM causes the copper on the heatsink to create an alloy. Gallium alloy fuses with copper. probably not a good idea, as you'll eventually damage the heatsink. you'll see benefits for maybe the first year possibly 2 but once its fully formed you'll have a new metal between the copper and chip sometimes this new metal can cause insulation keeping heat right where it is and over heating your system. I've not used another thermal paste on my system as of yet. but I'd use a High Thermal Conductivity paste. not Artic silver 5. because its only 8.9w/mk transfer conductivity this is quite poor for a high performance device. I bought Prolimitechs PK1 compund over 12 years ago i still have over 30g left. i use it on everything. its got a heat Conductivity of 10.2w/mk they have a nano particle version of their non conductive (electrically) paste now that transfers 11.2w/mk completely wipes the floor in performance to the standard paste on CPU coolers. I've used it for water cooling, GPUs and PS3s its always done a fantastic job and does zero damage to the components over time. i did my PS3 ... yikes 7 years ago, and it still runs under 55 degrees under load. when a paste is applied correctly. its can out do alot of other corrosive alternatives. (i've been a computer hardware maintenance technician for over 15 years)

[@brendenhoad7972]

initial load times are only a small percentage of what should have been tested, are mid game load screens any faster? there are loads of games with tons of load screens. do games/updates install faster. Most games come packaged and compressed and decompression is usually what takes the longest. SSD can unpack data much faster due to Hight read and writes speeds when internet speed is a non issue it really comes down to those decompression times, Also loading in textures can sometimes be slow in some games again this could be down to those same read and write speeds. I don't see a benefit if its just the initial load times that are slightly improved. i need the overall impact.

[@xNightHawk32]

Cool video man! I wonder if External SSD’s will be an option for Xbox Series X? I have a Game Drive 4 TB HDD... that for all purposes I think is broken. - I’m not really sure how I’d test it... but what I do know is I can’t run my Xbox One X when it’s plugged in. The console won’t recognize the controller when it’s plugged in, so I can’t even gauge if the console recognizes it. - And if I plug it in after I boot the console, the external drive isn’t recognized. Hoping SSD is more reliable. I had my Game drive for I think just under 2 years and now it doesn’t seem to work. Still powers on, but it’s not usable.

[@RealNeatGames]

Can't really speculate what may be causing your issues, but Series X will most certainly support external storage.

[@wf3644]

Watching this after new gen has released, it basically makes it into an Xbox Series S with an optical drive

[@whatinthe4500]

the one x is more powerful than the s. but dream on