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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DreamsPosted:

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

Slade_WilsonPosted:

Who would mod a new console?

KorutoPosted:

I remember when the The Teach Game was a modding place as well.

LatiasPosted:

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.

TywinPosted:

I can already tell that there is going to be so many people that will accidentally brick there console trying to upgrade the HDD.

FrogPosted:

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.

MaFiaEditingPosted:

It's disgusting how they have a SATA II hard drive and are selling as 'next generation'.

KonviictedPosted:

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

DissPosted:

I think the console has enough storage already but it's pretty cool how people can do this.



Vulepsy Im just gonna stick with the Hard Drive i've got. I don't wanna try and mess anything up.


I'd mess my console up as well xD

kudzuPosted:

Im just gonna stick with the Hard Drive i've got. I don't wanna try and mess anything up.


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