Modders have upgraded Xbox One's hard drive but it's not for everyone

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Microsoft's Xbox One has a Samsung 500GB SATA II hard drive inside, but it's not designed to be upgraded by anyone. In fact, people who do decide to tear open the Xbox One's case to change the drive will void the console's warranty. Having said that, some modders have posted up proof that they have been able to upgrade the drive in the console to get better game loading performance.

A modder named Brian Williams posted up a YouTube video on his blog today that shows the Xbox One with a 1TB hybrid drive from Samsung, along with a 500GB SSD, again from Samsung. Both of these drives cut the load times of "Call of Duty: Ghosts" by several seconds compared to the standard drive inside the console.

Putting in a new hard drive in the Xbox One is one thing, but getting the console to recognize that a drive has more storage space to work with is something else. A person who goes by the name "Juvenal1" has posted a way to let the Xbox One make use of a drive with bigger storage space on the GitHub website, via a Linux-based tool. Once again, this is for the advanced users so proceed at your own risk.

Microsoft has already announced it plans to update the Xbox One at some point to support external hard drives via its USB ports. The console currently does not allow users to view just how much free storage space is available, but Microsoft Xbox executive Albert Penello posted word recently on the NeoGAF message board that such a feature will be added when the external hard drive support is enabled.


https://github.com/juvenal1/xboxonehdd

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7O2Posted:

I dont think I will need more than GBs when I get my Xbox One but you never know.

OfficialLeonPosted:

Rocky5 At the end of the day, more than 500gbs is not needed on this system.

Reason bellow.

Ok the Xbox one was designed to be no fuss no hassle when it comes to how storage is handled.

Now the way the system works is as follows.

1. You can install about 8, 50GB (Not all games will be 50GB, the user content partition is about 400GB)
2. The system auto cleans its self. (Removes content that hasn't been played in ages)
What the latter means: Say you have 9 games installed taking up all the available space & you go to install a new one, it will remove the least played game, to make space)
3. Currently we can remove DLC & Games by pressing the menu button on them & picking remove/uninstall
4. Stores game saves locally for the most recent games, uploads them to the cloud when done, or turning off the system.

What would be handy are the following.

1. Allow us to remove save game files manually from the dashboard, instead of daft button combos ingame.
The latter will then sync across the cloud & all systems.

That's all we need.

Our saves are stored in the cloud (MS Servers) so spa storage manager is not needed, as much as it was on the Xbox 360.
Also the fact the system dynamically cleans itself so you don't need to worry about space (it alerts you anyways if your running low) is the reason for 500GB. We could install 13, 30GB games & still have some space left for saves/DLC.


You must be dumb 400gb is too small. i if you have to install games which are bigger than 10gbs this gen then you have apps game saves gamer pics and etc 500gb is too small don't make excuses because you can't change it.

ToastifyPosted:

Oceans
Debris
Frog If I bought an Xbox One, I'd be so nervous to open it up and start messing about. Strange that other hard-drives work in the console though, you'd think they'd make the ports unique.


That would only cost more money to have proprietary ports. I don't know why they couldn't make the hdd easily accessible like on the PS4.


I agree, it'd be much better if they did mad the hdd accessible. We shouldn't have to void the warranty just for a little upgrade.


I had the 320GB hardrive and I'm not much of a hard gamer but I only had about 60GB left after I installed all my games

BRSPosted:

Modders from 10 years ago creating a stripped down boot environment for a script? If you're talking about something like the ndure installers, they probably distributed Linux images because they couldn't legally distribute a Windows image?

In regards to CLI 'richness', I feel being able to treat a device as a file or character device adds a lot.

YopPosted:

Its just a way for Microsoft to gain more of a profit

DV8Posted:

Eventually they will add external hard drives "USBs" to be formatable so this will be a waste.

Rocky5Posted:

At the end of the day, more than 500gbs is not needed on this system.

Reason bellow.

Ok the Xbox one was designed to be no fuss no hassle when it comes to how storage is handled.

Now the way the system works is as follows.

1. You can install about 8, 50GB (Not all games will be 50GB, the user content partition is about 400GB)
2. The system auto cleans its self. (Removes content that hasn't been played in ages)
What the latter means: Say you have 9 games installed taking up all the available space & you go to install a new one, it will remove the least played game, to make space)
3. Currently we can remove DLC & Games by pressing the menu button on them & picking remove/uninstall
4. Stores game saves locally for the most recent games, uploads them to the cloud when done, or turning off the system.

What would be handy are the following.

1. Allow us to remove save game files manually from the dashboard, instead of daft button combos ingame.
The latter will then sync across the cloud & all systems.

That's all we need.

Our saves are stored in the cloud (MS Servers) so spa storage manager is not needed, as much as it was on the Xbox 360.
Also the fact the system dynamically cleans itself so you don't need to worry about space (it alerts you anyways if your running low) is the reason for 500GB. We could install 13, 30GB games & still have some space left for saves/DLC.

sir_grecoPosted:

Dreams
Konviicted
Wavelength
Dreams 500 gb is enough imo and not worth voiding a warranty just for extra space


500GB is nothing. Once you start installing those games it's going to add up quickly.


Yea 500BG is nothing at all. The digital version of Ghosts is 39.5GB for example, and the demo for NBA Live 14 is 10GB. That will add up very fast


are they really? you dont have to install them though unless u buy the digital version so i should be ok


lol at everyone whining. you wanted hard copies of games, so microsoft gave you that. meaning you dont need all this memory. not your mad bc you can't have 100 digital games? funny stuff rite there. and yes you will easily be good with 500 gb. i got the 120gb xbox for 4 years. not even half way used up yet.

CraKeLPosted:

I had the 320GB hardrive and I'm not much of a hard gamer but I only had about 60GB left after I installed all my games and DLC/Extra's! Should of made xbone atleast 1TB

edbreauPosted:

Debris
Frog If I bought an Xbox One, I'd be so nervous to open it up and start messing about. Strange that other hard-drives work in the console though, you'd think they'd make the ports unique.


That would only cost more money to have proprietary ports. I don't know why they couldn't make the hdd easily accessible like on the PS4.


I agree, it'd be much better if they did mad the hdd accessible. We shouldn't have to void the warranty just for a little upgrade.


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