External HD 240gb will it work for xboxone?

Hello BabOne,

Technically, that is correct, the minimum size for an external drive for the Xbox One is 256GB, see "Using the USB ports on your Xbox One console" at the
following URL, support.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/accessories/usb-port-use . However, if your 240GB supports USB 3.0 there should be no harm in giving it a try. If the Xbox does not like your 240GB, it will just not recognize it nor let you format it for games
and apps.

Good luck and good gaming,

SA

Each external HD performs different.

First go into the Xbox settings and make sure the external HD settings match your desired outcome.

Next go to each hd manufactures site or if you have the manual, look at any options that you may have.

I keep mine on and don't want the system to turn them off but again, all HD work differently.

This discussion may help too:

www.reddit.com/.../can_ishould_i_disable_idlesleep_mode_on_external

My burning question is this....

I had a 500 GB xboxone. today I traded it in for the elite xboxone. (love the controller btw). Well I had a bunch of saves from my old xboxone on my external (western digital) I put there since I knew I was going to get rid of that system. Today I get home.
crack open the elite. hook up my external and then I realize I couldn't get to load my saved data. I tried to get back to my fallout 4 but the elite system didn't want to show the thumbnails of the saves I have. Instead it just showed the percentage that its
there and used. and yes I used the cloud but the cloud didn't have all my saves up to date for FO4 progress. I'm a day and some hours off. I'm back to level 28. I was at level 31 before smdh

but anyway I'm wondering is this situation stupid to where my external ONLY remembers my old xboxone? and cant get the elite to 100% get to its contents? Or theres something wrong with this elite system and I should turn it back in?

because I'm wondering if its jacked up to where externals ONLY work for that system you formatted for. Example: you buy an xboxone. you use the external for it. save stuff. the xboxone dies. you get a NEW xboxone and then use the external but it don't work
for the new one because it only agrees with the one before. Is that's how that works?

I'm baffled on this

Copied everything to an external HD and everything worked through it so reformatted my HD and transferred everything back on to it. Seems to be working now, touch wood.

Hi Daniele,

Thanks for coming to the forums. Essentially yes it will work, however if you are going to use an external HD, you could just keep the games on the external HD and not install on each PC.

Thanks,

Brad