External hard drive

Ok i need a good external hard drive must be 2tb or more and cant have an external power supply

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External hard drive choices

So what external hard drive do you recommend?

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They think this one is overall best option Toshiba HDTB120EK3CA Basics 2TB USB 3.0 2.5 Inch Hard Drive - Black:Amazon.co.uk:Computers & Accessories

Thoughts?

 

Hard Drive Storage Limit

if adverts for "compatible" external hard drives are any indication it would seem the external storage patch should be coming some time soon although I note it wont be in the first patch released.

Xbox One 1TB Portable Hard Drive by DIGISTOR™-DIG-82153

 

I have this one, works perfect and really small, self powered, Just plug it in and fully restart your console then go to setting and manage storage and format, done.

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WD My Passport Ultra Portable Hard Drive - 2 TB, Red

 

If i buy a 2tb but fill it up and change to a 4tb can i transfer stuff from the 2tb to 4tb?

Also if i delete everything from my external hard drive will i lose my saves like game saves

 

you can setup another drive and transfer every thing easily, games saves are never affected as there stored locally and on the cloud.

 

Ghosts I have that same one (in black) got it from amazon with my prime account as it was chaeper, moved Destiny install to it and it does load quicker.

Only think I don't like is when in instant on mode it has a slow flashing light (standby mode) which means it's not powered but available (so disk heads parked and not spun up) the light is bright

 

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I have this one and I have 35 games installed on it and only used 13.8%. I have everything being Downloaded there and to me my Xbox seems to run smoother. But it does have a power supply.

 

the wd ultra portable does not have a power supply it runs directly from the console and is as quiet as a whisper, loving it and a very good investment.

 

I have a Seagate Backup Plus Fast drive. It's 2.5", so it's powered by USB, but there's actually 2 hard drives inside it so it has a 4TB capacity. It's the fastest and highest capacity USB-powered drive you can get for the Xbox One, but it's expensive.

You can easily copy or move any item from one drive to another, including from external to external. The only options missing are "move all" and "copy all", so unfortunately you have to manually queue up each item to be moved/copied.

The copy option can be handy if you have a friend with an Xbox One, as you can copy games to each other's externals to save you doing massive downloads, then you just have to buy a game to unlock what's already on your hard drive.

 

So I bought
this hard drive. Straight out of the box I hooked it up to mt PC which is on it's last legs to download all photos and videos and documents etc. before my laptop dies. After that I hooked it up to my ONE to put some games on it. When I plugged it in, it
said it had to format it, but in order for it to do that it would erase everything. Naturally I clicked "cancel" since I moved everything from my laptop to it.

The next day I removed everything from the external hard drive back onto the PC.

Now when I hook the drive back up to the ONE to format it, it doesn't ask me that option. It is now only recognized as a media device. I do not have the option to move my games to it. I've tried everything including deselecting "when Xbox is off, turn storage
off" and doing a hard reboot.

I formatted it on my PC and it still won't work. What a waste of 80 euro.

Any help would be great. Thanks.

 

My xbox one doesn't recognise my external hard drive when it worked perfectly fine on my 360.... doing my head in! Does any one know how to resolve this??

I want to use it to watch movies etc from, not as storage.

 

@brandiesel - Go into Settings - System - Manage storage. The device should show up there and you can choose to format it for use as Xbox One storage (which will wipe it in the process). The reason it doesn't ask you every time is because it would be annoying
to get that prompt every time you plugged in your external to watch a movie off it, so it only asks you the first time for each new drive you connect.

@KiLLa - Make sure it's formatted as NTFS. The Xbox 360 supported FAT32, so if it was formatted for use with that, then that's probably why it's not working. Just hook it up to your PC and reformat it as NTFS and you'll be good to go. Obviously, doing that
will wipe it, so make sure you copy any data you want to keep off it first.

 

@Sigma - I don't want to sound like a complete noob lol, but how do i do that, i am currently on a mac book pro :S , thanks!

 

I'm not sure you can do it mate, as OS X uses a different file system.

If you have access to a Windows PC, hook the drive up, open Windows Explorer/File Explorer, right-click on the drive and choose "Format" and a small window will pop up. Set "File system" to "NTFS (Default)" and then hit Start.