Seagate Game Drive Hub for Xbox 8TB USB 3.0 External Hard Drive STGG8000400 White

Pros: Storage space on my Xbox One has a been a huge problem for me. With the 500 GB model, with actually around only 400 GB of available drive space, and with games using usually 50 GB and even some like Gears of War 4 upwards of 100 GB. I can only have a few games installed at any given time and if I want to install a new game, I have to make space by uninstalling a different game. A high capacity storage solution is exactly what the X1 needs. Seagate gives us the most epic solution for storage space on the X1 to date. With 8 TB of hard drive space, you can have dozens of 50 GB games installed at any given time. With the USB 3.0 interface it even has the bandwidth to provide nearly the same hard drive bandwidth as the internal X1 hard drive. Which should allow for game play and load times to be as good or even better, at times, than with the internal hard drive.
This drives footprint is pretty small for an 8 TB external hard rive. It's not as small as a portable external drive, but no bigger than it needs to be. This drive requires external power in order for it to work and it utilizes a USB 3.0 interface. It also has two USB ports that can be used as charge or power ports for your various controllers and other devices. It's a nice looking piece of equipment, so it's not something you'd be forced to hide. But it is small enough that if you do want to tuck it away, it shouldn't be a problem. It runs quiet. The X1 power supply produces more noise than this game drive.
The price point on this drive is awesome. You'd be hard pressed to find any other 8TB storage solution with this drives performance for a similar price. This drive is designed for use with the Xbox, but it also works perfectly fine with Windows. At this point, if I wanted another external hard drive that wasn't portable I would just purchase another one of these.
This drives bandwidth is pretty impressive. I tested it using several data drive benchmarks including Crystal Disk Mark, AIDA 64 and AS SSD. Using USB 3.0, each benchmark showed an average of 150-160 MB/sec sequential reads and writes on an empty drive tapering down to around 90 MB/sec once the drive approaches full capacity. This drive definitely favors USB 3.0, like almost all external drives tend to do. Transfer speeds between my laptop and this drive maintained between 60-90 MB/sec on file sizes up to 20 GB on USB 3.0, which is average for a good external hard drive on USB 3.0. Transfer speeds really suffered on USB 2.0, however. I typically see around 30 MB/sec USB 2.0 transfer speeds on most external hard drives, I own at least half a dozen different types. I saw speeds dip to between 10-15 MB/sec on transfers of file sizes around 5 GB average using this drive on USB 2.0. Which isn't uncommon to see on some drives, but it is uncommon for most drives to perform like that consistently.

Cons: Well there is a pretty serious issue with this drive at this moment, given that this is supposed to be an external hard drive designed exclusively for use with the Xbox. I can plug the Xbox Game Drive into the Xbox One via USB port and the Xbox will see it. It lists it correctly, shows the correct amount of free space available on the drive and even shows the drives contents. However, as soon as I try to access anything on the drive it immediately causes my Xbox One to literally power down. The only possible explanation I can come up with for that is that since this is a prelaunch device, it's trying to prevent it from being used before the official launch date. Either that, or there is a major driver issue causing the Xbox One to crash. I will try again in a couple days and update my review when I know more.

Overall Review: Overall I'm really happy with this drive. As a PC gamer primarily, I will still get great value from this drive even if it never works correctly on the Xbox One. Although, I am very confident my issue will be resolved soon. Under ordinary conditions I would give this drive 5 Eggs for great value and performance. But since it's meant to be an Xbox Game Drive and it doesn't currently work with the X1 I am forced to reduce it's rating to 3 Eggs. Still, a great value for the PC. May be better after the official release.

Update:
I was able to get it working. I had to reformat the drive on my PC. I scanned the drive and a few sectors were corrupted. Don't know how that happened. Works great now! Changing my rating to 4 Eggs.

Pros: Good looking enclosure matches well with the Xbox One design, large drive capacity, having the extra hub for USB device charging is nice, especially when you don't have to worry about the power draw from the USB interface because the drive is powered via a separate power brick

Cons: Very slow drive, clocks in at 2-3 MBps on a USB 3.0 interface while a normal USB 3.0 hard drive could easily transfer at 60MBps, such poor transfer rate makes this drive only suitable for the super patient.

Overall Review: It's surprising how slow the data transfer rate on this drive is despite of the massive storage size, wondering if there are any firmware issues causing this problem. Maybe the manufacturer thought gamers on an Xbox One wouldn't care how slow the load time is on this drive.