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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gmlukensPosted:

I might try doing some of this, the prob is the SSD's are soooo expensive

ArrayPosted:

That would be awesome to have that but I have no clue about modding

KazuPosted:

Wish I was a modder, could be nice to have it doe.

ViIIainPosted:

Wish I could put a nice little SSD in the Xbox one for the operating system only, and use the hard drive for everything else.

Evo8Posted:

There is SO many things they needed to support but didn't. Can't wait to get my PS4 as well.

MusketPosted:

Im suprised it didnt take them shorter because i heard it faster then the 360 But i guess it was wrong

AlmightyHelixPosted:

That's pretty cool, I'm surprised it didn't take them longer.

Int_WolfPosted:

DemonSurfer Whoa that,s crazy... PS4 is practically instant booting up,i'm really suprised how long XBOX One takes.


It's instant on the xbox one, too. You can choose your booting times. I do the 3 second boot time because it saves me power.

MeteredPosted:

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HitUWithToaster Wow, Microsoft should lean how to do that and don't themselves! They would win a lot of customers and people would play it more! I want to do that when I get an Xbox one.


So Microsoft should spend around 130 more dollars for a 5 second decrease in boot time? Why? It would just make the console more expensive.


Some people don't understand that better tech means more money, if you upgraded to an SSD you could see anywhere from a 50-200$ price jump depending on what they would use.

I don't like however that it voids the warranty when you open the box, it should be like the PS4 and allow you to upgrade. My second part to this is that you can't just plug those hard drives in, you need to clone over all the files for it to work.

TobymAcPosted:

Microsoft needs to be taking notes. Or getting these guys to work on the consoles.


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