Anyone here got recommendations for what kind of External Storage to use that has 4TB or more capacity and maybe doesn't seem to suffer too much in terms of loading time/performance penalty?
I know only SOME games are affected by such things but I theorize that my 2TB drive tends to be kinda crappy to play games from because it's 5400rpm >and< only powered by a single USB connection to the console itself. I've noticed that plugging it into my Xbox actually has a notable effect on slowing down the entire OS, too, because it seems like the OS is constantly try to track the games installed to it as well, and it's nearly full now. Playing any non-enhanced BC games works just fine with decently improved loading times, but trying to play an X-enhanced X1 game and it generally has texture loading issues or increased loadtimes or even slowdown in some areas. I currently use the MyPassport X which is just a regular MyPassport drive with minor Xbox tie-in branding. It doesn't have an external power supply and draws completely from the Xbox for its power, and it's only 5400rpm.
Between my internal storage space and my external, I'm down to about 300GB and I've still got some major releases around the corner in 2019, and I'm all-digital on my Xbox so I don't like to redownload stuff as it uses up a ton of bandwidth with how big game files have gotten. Since this thing seems to struggle to perform (and I theorize it's because it relies on drawing power from the Xbox to run, not necessarily because of the HDD speed), I'd like to replace it outright with a larger storage capacity drive, hopefully around a 4TB. I have plenty of room in my entertainment center to fit something in, including some of the larger drives.
So anyone got any recommendations for what kind of drive to get? Something that maybe doesn't have a ton of performance issues? Something bigger capacity and cheaper than the SSD options? It'd be glorious to get an SSD but they're so damn expensive.