Thanks to one of the tech bloggers, who got the opportunity to review the new console, it became known that the system requires a drive with at least a USB 3.0 interface and a volume of at least 128 GB.

As Tom’s Hardware points out, legacy Xbox One game titles specially optimized to run on Xbox Series X and Series S consoles by taking advantage of the Xbox Velocity Architecture technology can only be run from an internal PCIe 4.0 NVMe drive or an external SSD from the company. Seagate. Unoptimized but backward compatible old games from Xbox One, Xbox 360, and the original Xbox can be installed and launched on new consoles from external USB 3.0 media with a volume of 128 GB or more.

These external storage requirements are not new to Xbox consoles. According to the source, for Xbox One and Xbox One X, the requirement was to use USB drives with a minimum volume of 256 GB. For the new consoles, the company made changes, as it significantly redesigned the Xbox software shell.

The main reason Microsoft does not allow external USB drives to run optimized Xbox Series X and Series S games is due to their speed. These games can take advantage of the new features of the Xbox Series X and Series S consoles, including faster game levels load times than the Xbox One and Xbox One X. In addition, they will support Quick Resume, which allows you to quickly switch between games and resume them at the same time. the place where the player previously stopped. External USB storage devices, even using the USB 3.0 standard, are not fast enough to support these capabilities.

As for game screenshots and gameplay records, they can be stored and run on new consoles from external USB drives of any size. However, Microsoft specifies that they must be NTFS formatted and use the USB 3.0 standard. Any external USB device can be used to play music, videos, and pictures.