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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SurvivalOfTheFittestPosted:

They will probably get Console Banned for this, They are getting expensive hard drives, when they are paying cheap for it (just the HDD of course)

BigRedMachinePosted:

I don't think the xbox one console will get modded that much at all in the near future, just because people managed to open up the console to change the drive.

TywinPosted:

Katsumi
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fex It's stupid that you cannot use the USB3.0 ports for USB thumb drives or even external hard drives


Probably because external harddrives are so slow that it isn't even worth using.


Eh.. i wouldn't quite say that. They are pretty handy when it comes to storing data and some externals can be relatively fast


If you want to spend a couple hundred dollars on the somewhat fast externals, although it would only be handy for temp storage, not long term.

KatsumiPosted:

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fex It's stupid that you cannot use the USB3.0 ports for USB thumb drives or even external hard drives


Probably because external harddrives are so slow that it isn't even worth using.


Eh.. i wouldn't quite say that. They are pretty handy when it comes to storing data and some externals can be relatively fast

TywinPosted:

fex It's stupid that you cannot use the USB3.0 ports for USB thumb drives or even external hard drives


Probably because external harddrives are so slow that it isn't even worth using.

TywinPosted:

Kex i don't think its even worth it.
I can wait 5 extra seconds waiting for a console to turn on I'm not that inpaitent


There are some people that are going to want the fastest thing possible.
Which doesn't make sense to me why they are playing console and not PC.

MawderzPosted:

i don't think its even worth it.
I can wait 5 extra seconds waiting for a console to turn on I'm not that inpaitent

fexPosted:

It's stupid that you cannot use the USB3.0 ports for USB thumb drives or even external hard drives

KatsumiPosted:

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Katsumi
Rant I think you should be able to purchase and use any HDD you like. I hate running out of space on my HDDs.


Well.. yes and no. I think you should be able to use an external hard drive for space on your Xbox One but not replace the original one.


I think the same ^ you should keep the 500GB but then maybe add another 500Gb external HDD or something o.0


It would be much more easy and safe to do. Hopefully Microsoft gives up the option to do so in the near future

TywinPosted:

fex I think MS should have copied Sony and had the option to take out the SSD


There isn't an SSD in the Xbone.


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