Extra storage internal/external

Richie079 · Dec 30, 2016

So I needed to expand my storage capabilities as I have officially run out of space on my external hard drives and my internal xbox one hard drive.

PLAN A: Purchase a 4TB hard drive and swap out the internal xbox one drive..... Plan A fails. It would appear the xbox does not support an internal 4TB hard drive. Please do correct me if im wrong!?

PLAN B: Use 4TB hard drive as an external drive instead.... Plan B fails. The xbox will not recognize that the hard drive is connected. In the mean time I can connect all 3 of my original external hard drives with no issues. So it also appears the the xbox
does not support a 4TB external drive either. Again please correct me if i am wrong!?

So what i want to know is this. Has anyone else had this problem? How did they get round it? What is the maximum size external/internal drive the xbox can handle?

:)

Morbidpsycho · Dec 30, 2016

External Hard Drive

Should be in your options menu, in the hard drive section I would have thought, no?Click to expand...
Click to expand...

Not sure , I'll check and let you know what I find.

ok , I found out how to do it . Find the settings then go to System then from System find the column that has Storage listed at the top. Underneath it should have "Manage Storage" . Then when I click on that it says Storage Select a device to see its options and I have an Internal and my formatted X box external hard drive . Move the Highlight from the Internal to the External hard drive and click the "A" button on the controller and it brings up a list
View Contents , Install here by default , Rename , and Format.
So just highlight the Install here by Default and your games will install on the External hard drive instead of the Internal.

I hope this helps out .

DarthMozza · Dec 30, 2016

Storage Space (oddity)

Just a quick query,if your using an external hard drive for extra storage which one are you using and does it work well.

Just thought I would ask as my internal is nearly full.

Thanks all

Farscape247 · Jan 1, 2017

just to check, the external 4tb hdd is using usb 3.0 and a full usb3.0 cable.

Farscape247

just to check, the external 4tb hdd is using usb 3.0 and a full usb3.0 cable.

BraddingoHD

Do you have room on your internal/external storage? sometimes games require storage on internal and external

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.

Sean Cullen

I understand that, but it just seems odd it automatically did it. There was plenty of room on the main hard drive, it just adds an extra step. Would have thought there’d be an internal flag for an optimized game to go to internal storage by default since they don’t run off external

Smwutches

I've had that message pop up on my flash drive, but never actually had an issue using the flash drive.

As far as extra storage, you can use any USB storage device (like an external hard drive) for extra storage, but you are limited to using only 32gb of space on that drive for Xbox storage. Use of any other unauthorized storage device (like a laptop hard
drive internally) would violated the terms of service.

Extra storage internal/external