Poll: How Full Is Your Xbox Series X|S Internal Storage?

I have the old xbox 2tb external drive I use to play non-enhanced games on. I look to get the sea gate expansion card if the price ever comes down.

There's not too much there, only Valhalla cuz till now imho GamePass sucks and rest of time I'm playing on switch.

I just delete/uninstall after I finish these days

The Seagate expansion was a day one purchase for me. 2TB (combined) seems to be a sweet spot with the current size of games. May need more by the end of this generation though. I wish the console was better at just treating it as a unified storage instead of internal + external.

Currently with 25 Games installed on Series S internal SSD.

Including Series S optimized games, Xbox One and backward compatible games from 360 and OG Xbox.

So far I'm satisfied with the amount of space available, didn't have any issue to play what I want.

I have a few Series S optimized games on the SSD, so it's about 65% full. And then nearly all the XBO games are on a 320GB USB 3 drive I had from a few years ago.

Since regular SSDs can play all Backwards Compatible and some Series X upgraded games, while still having practically, the same loading bonuses of internal, I put those on my 1 TB external SSD. I still have my old 3 TB external, mostly for storage of my older games as well. Seems to be a good working solution for me until the expansion cards become much more reasonable in price.

It’s full, plan on using my internal to keep the latest sports titles and games like Destiny, Gears, Forza and Halo that I always want available.

I got the Seagate expansion to cycle in/out all other current gen games and a 2TB SSD external for previous gen games.

It's always close to full (around the 90% mark), and despite having an expansion card (along with the option to include an external SSD if needed), I manage the storage in what games I'm currently playing with no issue.

With that storage (console and Seagate card), I have around 65 games installed (give or take a few), which allows me freedom to play, whatever my tastes at the time.

I have a 10TB Xbox Branded Western Digital Black Hard Drive, and the 1TB Expansion Card. So, I use the 10TB for storing all my games, the internal drive for the games that actually require it, and the Expansion card for non-Series X games that I'm actively playing.

I have a 12 TB external drive and almost all my games are there in cold storage. Over 300 games, and still not 60% full. Whenever I want to play a game, I just copy it. Does not take too long, certainly faster than pulling a disk and downloading updates.

Minor rant: I won't own an SSD expansion anytime soon, but them being hot-swappable makes me wish the slot was on the front of the unit. Eventually, prices of the 1tb expansion will come down and would be nice to just swap as needed, having multiple of them around. That's much harder when the Xbox is an entertainment unit with its back out of reach.

My XSX internal storage is pretty full, with less than 100gb free now. I recently had to do some “housekeeping” and offload some games (mostly older last-gen titles) to an external hard drive (not SSD). This week I plan on buying the Seagate external SSD expansion.

Had a 5TB throughout the whole XB1 gen. but it quit right before Series X launch. Took some getting used to the substantial space reduction but it really hasn't been too bad. I'll probably cash out MS Reward points (120K) and nab an expansion card in the next few months.

I’m sitting at about 44%. I have about 12 games installed and I remove them when I’m finished then download something new. I’d be interested in the ssd expansion but not until the price goes down. So far the system is working lol.

@LifeRetro lol switch and all there erm great games....

I have the Seagate 1TB, and the green Xbox Seagate 2TB external. I have roughly 4TB total, and less than 300GB open.

I have Game Pass to thank for that.

I’ve never ever had to buy an external drive or expansion card. I don’t get why people need more space? I currently have 13 games installed on my Series X, GTA V is the only game that isn’t optimised and I still have about 180gb of space left.

With a 1TB HDD/SSD no one should ever need extra storage as they could just delete a few games they’ve finished with or just don’t play much of. Obviously it’s up to that person to have how ever many extra TB of storage but seriously how often is that person going to be playing the games on the extra storage, as well as the ones that have filled up the 1TB internal storage? It’s just seems quite excessive to me.

Ran out of space day 1. 1tb wasn't acceptable even when the Xbox One came out. No idea why they'd think it is now.

I only keep Series-enhanced games on it, the rest are on the 4TB HDD. When more games are enhanced, I move them to the internal memory when I want to play them. No issues at all if you have an external HDD/SSD.

1tb seagate expansion well worth it

With Gamepass there are just more good games than time or space. So yeah I picked up the Seagate expansion and much happier.

I always have 4-5 games installed at the same time and close to 40-50% free space. Why would anyone have 20+ games installed at the same time is beyond me. Unless your internet bandwidth/connection sucks.

I'm at capacity but i also have a lot of games installed that i haven't played yet. Working on Fallen Order and Halo right now, Halo will likely be staying put for multiplayer but Fallen Order will be getting the boot once i finish it. I have unlimited internet so I can always reinstall a game if i want it again but ideally I'd have more storage. I'll hold off until I can get at least a 2TB SSD without a mortgage attached to it.

Main selling point for the XBox for me has been trying new games with GamePass, so I like having a ton of games installed that I can just try out. I've got a 2tb hard drive for non enhanced games and an expansion card (got for free thanks to MS rewards), currently about 70% full across all my storage with about 100 games installed - although right now the only thing I'm playing is Dark Souls, which takes about 8gb!

Warzone, Division 2, MCC...... My Series S is full.

@Tasuki Mainly the Nintendo games. Switch has too many shovelware in the slow to load eshop.

@Secryt Same here (day one Segate expansion) - I think the reason that it doesn't treat it as more unified if because of the hot-swap feature. Technically you could have multiple expansion cards and swap them in and out seamlessly while the system is on. The 2TB total is good for me now - it's enough that I don't have to think about storage, which is how I like it best. I could see myself replacing it with a 2TB card (for a total of 3TB) if they ever did one at a reasonable price.

Mine is 30-something % full, but only because I have one of the Seagate cards. Before I got the card, the internal drive was around 60% full and that was with me being VERY selective about what I downloaded; games like Destiny 2 and Forza Horizon 4 gobble up a good chunk of space by themselves.

@Tharsman wow!!! 12TB?? I have an 8TB external drive and I didn’t realize the Xbox One would even recognize anything larger than 8TB! Good to know! 👍

@StylesT what's more on Xbox right now? Besides Valhalla, maybe Cyberpunk and two games more... nothing. It's not bad, switch is longer on market and have more good games in terms of quality.

@LifeRetro Well that's your opinion, if you like all sorts of games there's shed loads, that's why most people with gamepass have quite the back log to play through.. Just off top of my head, I just finished Cyber Shadow and The Medium which are new, I'm still playing gears tactics

I gave up Nintendo with the wii, I owned every Nintendo console up untill the wii but I realised I was playing through nostalgia.. They have 1 or 2 superb games but the rest is pretty meh and 3rd party support is always lacking