Return_of_the_STAR wrote:Do you guys leave your external drives plugged in when you Xbox is turned off? My son's external drive doesn't seem to turn off despite the Xbox being power down.
Mains or USB powered?
I’ve got both. My mains-powered drive is used as an “archive”, and that stays off at the mains except when I want to transfer stuff.
The USB-powered portable hard drives stay plugged in, same as I did with the Xbox One. Unlike the One, on the Series X I noticed that the drives’ lights were staying on pretty much all the time. I initially thought nothing of it, assuming it was just updating a game or something, but eventually I got concerned that the drives were going to die early if they kept running constantly, so I switched the settings to “When Xbox is off, turn off storage”.
EDIT: I was initially reluctant to switch that option because, as Oyster just said, you lose that remote install feature. But I’m permanently working from home now, so it’s not much of a loss for me!