Hard Drive Upgrades

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?

:)

 

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Hello Driftking197. I just wanted to confirm that if you use any other hard drive outside of the official ones, it will result in a ban under the Terms of Use:

12. Service Operation and Equipment.

Any attempt to disassemble, decompile, create derivative works of, reverse engineer, modify, further sublicense, distribute, or use for other purposes the Service, any game, application, or other content available or accessible through the Service, or any
hardware or software associated with the Service or with an original Xbox or Xbox 360 console is strictly prohibited and may result in cancellation of your account and/or your ability to access the Service, and the pursuit of other legal remedies by Microsoft.
Microsoft may take any legal action it deems appropriate against users who violate Microsoft's systems or network security, this contract or any additional terms incorporated or referenced in this contract, and such users may also incur criminal or civil
liability.

 

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lol i love it how i buy a xbox 360 THAT I OWN and i cand put my OWN hard drive in it now i got to spend £64 for a hard drive i already got

 

the xbox will support up to 2 usb3.0 hdds externally at 8TB each for a total of 16TB. you can only have 2 hdd's connected though for game storage.

 

Hi

Please do not use plan A as opening the console and changing the internal hard drive could get the console banned from connecting to Microsoft's servers due to the console being modified.

I have a 4TB portable external hard drive connected to my console and it works without any issues for me.

 

That is exactly what i thought.

Ive got 2 brand new fresh out the box 4TB hard drives that work fine with my PC but wont register at all with my xbox one or my ps4. As i type this I have 3 hard drives all used for game storage connected to my xbox. Even if i strip that back to none and
attach the 4TB one I get nothing

 

You have to be kidding me that they would ban you upgrading a hard drive!? right?

 

At the very least, opening the console will void the warranty.

 

Please go to this site for more info on your issue.

Storage on Xbox One | Check Storage Space on Xbox One

As for a compatible 4TB drive, this is the one that I use myself.

Amazon Seagate Game Drive Green STEA-4000402 4TB

https://www.amazon.com/Seagate-Game-Drive-Green-STEA4000402/dp/B01BV13S7S/ref=sr_1_7?ie=UTF8&qid=148...

 

I need to look at getting a bigger drive as running out room, damn these games that are 50GB in size.

 

In the support sections for Xbox there is mention of taking games you no longer use or use not so much and load them onto USB drives. In my limited hardware knowledge larger hard drives require advanced software for storing information on these 4 TB hard
drives. I do not know if there are any driver updates that will let your system see and use this "Advanced Hard Drive" I revert to using a WD- external drive connected to my router to store extra data on. Granted it is only an outdated 1TB drive but it is
the router that supports the external drive and is seen differently by my older Laptops. It is not seen as an external hard drive but as an media device and might be why my older devices can use it for storage where they cant use an external or internal 1TB
drive in the same way.

I share this to you as a possible work around. If you have a device that in fact can use the 4TB hard drive maybe your Xbox can than store information on that drive with granted access to it through the device that can see the 4TB Drive. Hope this helps.

 

Have you tried to see if the xbox can use the 4 TB drives through your PC?

 

Hi, can someone help me out.

I recently bought a hard drive, Seagate STEA4000400, and its causing my games to stutter/pause, like its uploading too slow.

From xbox support I was told I need a faster drive.

The above is 5400rpms and they said to get 7200rpms.

I see UD NO REMORSE is recommending a Seagate STEA4000402.

These 2 drives have the same specs and rpms.

Can anybody explain why my drive has issues?

It seems crazy to buy the exact same drive as a replacement just because it has xbox written on it, and is green?!?!?!?!?

Thanks in advance