To Microsoft's credit, however, you are thankfully able to use external hard drives

For example, the Xbox has been built with internal storage since the 360 Slim, and because of this internal storage I was forced to get a new Xbox when my hard drive failed

The performance alone makes up for the small hard drive

I also purchased a 2 terabyte external hard drive

You're better off buying an external hard drive

Also, they bill it as a "500 GB" hard drive.

After having done this, you are left with 780.6 GB of free hard drive out of the relatively meager 1 terabyte disk space

You will soon need an external hard drive due to large file sizes.

I think the console is defective because of the hard drive or maybe something else, now it does not open any game

Not that much faster or larger drive

With a 1TB hard drive being the only available option currently, you may end up having to invest in an external hard drive

You will be ok if you buy a cheap external hard drive

My only complaint is the 1tb hard drive, doesn’t seem like it’s enough space considering most 4k games are 80-100gb large so you will definitely fill up that space quickly with just a few games

This is extremely irritating since I know it won't be long until I'm forced to buy another external hard drive to make up for the consoles lack of storage

Get an external hard drive if you want...or just delete some games when things start to get more full than you like (you don't need all those arcade and 360 titles on there

Just plugged in my external hard drive and had everything ready to go

Remember to save your games on a hard drive.

Its like they sat down and said lets make an awesome system that looks and performs better, and even though its a requirement to install every game on the hard drive as well as downloading the big 4k updates, let's go ahead and limit the storage

More storage if you dont have an external hard drive

and i'm not a fan of external hard drives

So it doesn't matter that my hard drive is 500 GB.

One thing I almost forgot is hard drive swapping.

After having done this, you are left with 780.6 GB of free hard drive out of the relatively meager 1 terabyte disk space

That's already 10% of the hard drive right there

a star is the fact that it only comes equipped with a 1 TB hard drive.

Buy an external hard drive if you intend on having close to a dozen games at once on this console-Still need a dang Kinect adapter that Microsoft recently discontinued

Going from an Xbox One Day One Edition with a failing internal hard drive to an Xbox One X is quite a substantial upgrade

How in this day and age of gaming can you put such a tiny hard drive on an otherwise awesome console

A good external drive will load just as fast or faster than the internal

If you're planning to play a lot of games on it, buy an extra hard drive because, with about 8 games, the 1TB will be almost done.

Get yourself a huge external hard drive and you're good to go.

Wished it had of been a solid state drive like the elite I have but most my games are on externals anyway which are faster

I honestly don't understand why they don't just offer another version of the Xbox One X with a 2 TB hard drive for $600

One month into use the hard drive crashed

Twice with just a system reinstall, and the third time with a complete hard drive wipe.

This console has great graphical capabilities, a good amount of storage (though I'd still suggest getting an external hard drive like I did for storing games you want installed, but aren't currently playing), & a great host of features

It does have a solid state drive a WD 1TB(1000GB

Also, if upgrading from Xbox One / Xbox One S, using an exturnal hard drive will speed up and reduced bandwidth usage of having to download games and apps again

I did not purchase mine through Amazon but decided to take a drive into Houston to pick mine up at a Gamestop and have enjoyed every minute of ditching my original Xbone i'm currently playing on a 1080p tv and enjoying the vast improvement of many of my older games like the Witcher 3 and others I have yet to decide if I want to make the jump to a 4k as I see no need to

A retro through back so the lack of pixels is excusable, or D