Modders have upgraded Xbox One's hard drive but it's not for everyone
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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WavelengthPosted:
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.
CayPosted:
I wonder how the external HDD are going to be, probably a bulking add on that you need to include on top of the console or something
TomorrowLandPosted:
MeteredBecause they were pre-programmed to allow the type of drive that they were to put in them...-HexHitUWithToaster 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.
TomorrowLandPosted:
bingbing10I have about 70 games for my Xbox 360. In this next generation games up to 50 GB (at the minute, bound to increase). That would be 3.5TB...YurSphinq Each game takes up around 20gb instillation i think. So is 500gb really enough.
20GB ea game?! 500gb wont last long..
I've had my PC a month and I've used 800gb on a my 1tb hard drive which is for games alone ? I've got get another one in time for steam Christmas sale
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ImGiraffe They should've had external drives from the beginning
exactly, but i believe eventually modders will find a way for more people to use.
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