Seagate Game Drive 5TB Halo Master Chief Limited Edition Review

How Much Does it Cost?

The Seagate Game Drive for Xbox 5 TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD Xbox Master Chief Edition is available from most major retailers. It’s available on Amazon for just £139.99, which is about £20 more than a similar drive would be without the Halo stuff. That seems pretty reasonable to me, and actually, I didn’t realise 5 TB drives had gotten this cheap.

Overview

The Halo theme of this drive is really cool, and let’s be honest here, it’s not easy to make mass storage exciting. Try shouting “COME QUICK KIDS, WE GOT A NEW MASS STORAGE DEVICE!” and watch them not move. However, slap a cool picture on there, and you’ve got something that feels more fun, and a lot more interesting as a gift too.

Fortunately, if you’re not into your Spartans, there are other themes available. They make some basic blank looking ones in black and white, and there’s a really funky CyberPunk 2077 one out now too, but that costs another £10 for some reason.

Build Quality

It’s pretty robust, but keep in mind it’s designed to sit under your TV and it is a HDD so don’t go juggling with it any time soon. However, it does look and feel like a quality product, and that’s fair enough. I like the little details too, such as the matching green cable. It’s not much, but it helps justify the extra £20 investment.

Performance

I’m really surprised with the performance actually, it does move data around a bit quicker than the Xbox One did, but again, the SSD on the Series X has the ability to max out the 5TB drive read and writes with ease. While it won’t be usable for Series X/S enhanced games, off loading all your Xbox One and under games to this drive helps free up that super-fast SSD for modern titles.

Should I Buy One?

For most people, the 2TB model will likely be way more than enough. However, the price of HDD storage is so good these days that the 5TB model is a solid future-proofing investment. If you like to have 100-200 classic games installed, the Seagate Game Drive for Xbox 5 TB External Hard Drive Portable HDD Xbox Master Chief Edition is about the coolest way to get it done!