Hey all, I know this isn't the typical sort of hard drive question asked here but I found threads on the Xbox and the Gamestop subs and wanted to get the opinion from people more focused on data and hard drives, rather than gaming.
The Xbox Series X/S has a special hard drive slot on the back to expand the storage. To use this you have to buy one of their purpose build drives from either Seagate or WD. I don't know all of the technical details but, these are what you have to use if you want to expand storage for Series X/S games, if you want to run older games you can use an external drive (USB connected).
With the context out of the way, my question is whether or not a "refurbished" one of these drives would be fine or if there is concerns with not buying it new? The rough price for new ones are ~$150 for 1tb or ~$225 for 2tb. Gamestop sells refurbished 2tb for $180, so it is a solid savings. All of the threads I found, on r/Gamestop and r/Xbox, people are saying to just buy new and don't risk a refurbished, but I'm wondering what you guys think?
Thanks in advance for any help, I know this isn't normally the type of hard drives discussed here.
