Talking Point: Xbox Series X|S Owners, How's Your Storage Looking In 2024?

It's become a yearly tradition for us here at Pure Xbox to ask the question of how well you're managing your Xbox Series X and Xbox Series S storage, and in 2024 it's become harder than ever to manage it effectively.

In 2023, 40% of all Pure Xbox voters told us that their internal storage was basically full on Xbox Series X, and 51% on Xbox Series S. Naturally, AAA games have continued to increase in size over the past 24 months, and we're willing to bet those figures will be even higher when it comes to the 2024 version of these polls.

The one saving grace might be the existence of the 1TB Carbon Black Xbox Series S, which came out last September. Nevertheless, the majority of Series S users in 2024 are still using the 512GB version (which actually ships with about 400GB of usable storage), and realistically that's an unfeasible figure for a lot of Xbox fans these days.

We also ran some other polls about external storage last year that delivered some interesting results. The majority of Pure Xbox voters told us they were interested in buying a dedicated Expansion Card for their Xbox Series X or S, but at the time they were considered to be too expensive. Instead, it seems like a lot of people reverted to external harddrives (or SSDs) for storage, even though they can't be used for actually playing optimised Xbox Series X|S games.

Things have changed since then, though. Seagate announced some permanent price cuts for a variety of Expansion Cards in May of 2023, and then Western Digital brought a couple of new options to the market later in the year. These are still expensive sources of external storage, but they're at least not quite as expensive as they used to be.

So, let's run this back! Below, you'll find all the same polls as we provided last year, and we're very interested to see how things fare this time around. If you have any other thoughts to share, let us know down in the comments section below.

Xbox Series X Owners, How Full Is Your Internal Storage? (1,977 votes)

  1. 0-10%  0.9%
  2. 11-20%1%
  3. 21-30%1%
  4. 31-40%2%
  5. 41-50%3%
  6. 51-60%5%
  7. 61-70%6%
  8. 71-80%12%
  9. 81-90%23%
  10. 91-100%45%

Xbox Series S Owners, How Full Is Your Internal Storage? (708 votes)

  1. 0-10%1%
  2. 11-20%  1%
  3. 21-30%1%
  4. 31-40%1%
  5. 41-50%3%
  6. 51-60%5%
  7. 61-70%5%
  8. 71-80%8%
  9. 81-90%17%
  10. 91-100%58%

Xbox Series X Owners, Do You Use Any External Storage? (2,197 votes)

  1. Yes, I bought a 2TB Expansion Card11%
  2. Yes, I bought a 1TB Expansion Card22%
  3. Yes, I bought a 512GB Expansion Card  1%
  4. Yes, I bought an external HDD/SDD24%
  5. The Expansion Cards are too expensive right now34%
  6. No, I don't think I really need it8%

Xbox Series S Owners, Do You Use Any External Storage? (817 votes)

  1. Yes, I bought a 2TB Expansion Card6%
  2. Yes, I bought a 1TB Expansion Card18%
  3. Yes, I bought a 512GB Expansion Card3%
  4. Yes, I bought an external HDD/SDD24%
  5. The Expansion Cards are too expensive right now41%
  6. No, I don't think I really need it8%

Xbox fans, how's your Series X and/or Series S storage looking in 2024? Come and tell us!