Bests & Worsts Reviews from Amazon

A little while ago a buddy of mine bought a 2TB Seagate external hard drive for his Xbox One and told me about how much faster he loads into games now. He plays Battlefield and Destiny and says he's the first to load into maps nearly every time. If you've played Destiny, then you know the load times suck going to/from orbit pretty much anywhere, and Battlefield maps can take a while some times, so having an external hard drive shave that time down by any amount is much appreciated. I bought this SSD with Destiny 2 in mind, certain that Bungie would still plague us with long load times. Fortunately, they aren't as bad as Destiny 1, but here is the rough breakdown of load times which, understandably can vary due to network-related issues (internet, Xbox Live, Bungie servers, or all), but these are the results when we timed ourselves in various situations (ALL on wireless internet connections): With Destiny 2 completely closed out, from Xbox Home screen to Destiny 2 main menu (exactly when the "Press A to Start" appears): - 12 seconds with the Samsung T5 - 15 seconds with friend's 2TB Seagate hard drive - 17 seconds with default Xbox One Overall, not much difference but there really isn't much to load just getting to that screen anyway. Within Destiny 2, from Orbit to The Farm (excluding that "3, 2, 1" launch countdown): - 32 seconds with Samsung T5 - 44 seconds with friend's 2TB Seagate hard drive - 46 seconds with default Xbox One Within Destiny 2, loading from EDZ to Titan: - 30 seconds with Samsung T5 - 49 seconds with friend's 2TB Seagate hard drive! Our 3rd tester with the default Xbox wasn't present for this one but when I loaded into the mission I was stunned at how long I was waiting for my friend to load in after me - almost 20 seconds later! Now, these aren't scientific, definitive results in any way. We only timed ourselves once so they are not averages, and that last test with my friend being almost 20 seconds behind me doesn't appear to be normal, as once we stopped timing things and continued playing on, we never had a load-time difference that seemed as bad as that again (most likely network related delay). Just last night actually, he loaded into a map before me for the first time ever in the past few days - so while I think it's safe to say the Samsung T5 is generally going to be the faster drive, network conditions can hold it, and anyone, back from time to time. Overall, I'm very satisfied with this little unit. 250GB is plenty of space to load your most important 3-4, load-screen-heavy games onto, and if for some reason you're the type that's playing more than that many games at any time, copying game files to/from this drive is super quick as well. You won't be disappointed!