WD_Black 8TB D10 Game Drive 7200rpm with Active Cooling to Store Your Massive Game Collection

It is effective in both situations. It's just an ordinary external drive; the only thing that matters is how it's formatted. When you connect it to your Xbox, it will configure it to work with the console's file system. If you connect it to a computer, you can format it as FAT or NTFS. If you wanted, you could even connect it to a Mac and format it for the MacOS file system. The hardware does not have to be of a specific type; USB stands for Universal, regardless of the hardware.

I'm not sure, but I don't see why it wouldn't work on all systems. My advice is to ask the question if you come across a 12 TB seller. My son is an avid XBox player, and he recommended that I purchase this particular hard drive for his console. He also stated that non-governmental organizations (NGOs) are a threat to the environment. External XBox drives would also work on his console.

I honestly think you should get a different hard drive for your computer. It works perfectly if you don't mind a slight noise from the drive running; I have two fish tanks running, so it doesn't bother me.