External Storage

CAPTAIN SUMMERZ · May 9, 2019

I have an Xbox One, X1S, and X1X. I use 2 8TB HDDs to share my games collection among them and I recently hit 600 games. I now cannot go to My Games and Apps because it crashes even my X1X. I cannot get to storage in settings to see if uninstalling some
would help and I would not want to uninstall as I enjoy having my games ready to go. I have reformatted these drives and done testing on them and they perform perfectly connected to my PC but it seems once you get to around 600 games the X1 OS gives up trying
to load them in My Games and Apps. I am in the Skip-Ahead ring of the xbox insiders program but only on the X1X and X1S not the original X1. I have also tried splitting the 600 games among the 2 drives

(300 games on each) and I get the same issue. It seems that either 600 games or ~10TB of external storage is the soft cap for the Xbox OS.

I am about to get some Samsung T5 2TB SSDs and some USB3.0 hubs to hold all my stuff to see if that fixes the problem unless someone has any more ideas.

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WPAK

Hi there,

just to be sure, are the games installed on the internal storage device or an external storage device?

If they are installed on an external storage device, please try and see what happens if the game is installed on the internal storage device and the external storage device is disconnected.

ngocphi

What Storage are you using external hdd or internal storage or storage card ?

If external had that won't qork it has to be next gen storage

DragonSamurai75

If I might make a suggestion on a particular brand, go for a Toshiba brand external 7200 RPM HDD, I have two 1TB Toshiba external HDD's and they have never let me down. I know at my local Walmart they have the 1TB for $49.99 a piece and they have the 2TB
for $69.99 a piece, so be sure to check them out if you can afford the right one you want.

Ice DjKilla

Hello Tamer,

I currently am using a WD MyPassport Ultra 3TB USB 3.0 external hard drive that I picked up awhile back for around $80.00 on sale.

I havent had any issues with it so far, I have it set to default so everything is loaded to it, so I can always take my games to go if needed.

If you have any one your looking at in particular, make sure it is capable of higher Rpms in order to read/write data quicker. Make sure to get one that is USB 3.0 (some companies still try to sell the 2.0 versions). I prefer ext. drives that use the power
through USB from the xbox versus having to plug it in to a seperate outlet.

Also space is very imporant, as for example, lets say each game you download or install is roughly 40GB. So that means 1 TB drive will provide you enough space for approx. 25 Games. Which is why I went for the 3TB version.

Flashmob 2

Had a similar problem last year. I returned it to the retailer and got a new one. I followed the formatting instructions and it worked.

External Storage