Internal Hard Drive Replacement and max capacity

It is advised against changing out the internal hard drive. It will definitely void any warranty that you may still have on the console.

I know you are not interested in managing two drive but if you buy a large external drive you can move the content from your internal and make the external the primary drive and the system does most of the managing for you. The only thing that I have on
my internal drive is the OS. Good luck on whatever you decide.

One platform allows you to upgrade your internal drive while not being able to install games on external drives while the other allows you to install games on one or more external drives while not being able to upgrade the internal drive.

Either way you have options to increase your storage capacity.

Having all games on one single internal drive shouldn't be considered safer as the drives are pretty much the same with the difference being that the external drives have their own enclosure. In the end, the drives are pretty much the same.

If you want larger capacities you can always opt out for a 3.5" desktop external drive such as the WD My Book or even the WD My Book Duo.

If you want data safety it may be a better idea to have multiple smaller drives instead of a single larger drive where if it fails you would lose all data instead of only part of it.

Larger capacity internal drives are with different form factors and you may not be able to fit a 3.5" drive unless you do some modifications on your console. 2.5" drives don't have the massive capacities of 3.5" drives.

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Hey there ShiroDust

Unfortunately, swapping HDDs on the console isn't really supported, as you know.

It may be possible if you are willing to void your warranty. There are many known issues such as problems with adjusting the partition size and physically fitting a large capacity drive inside the console.

I would stick to expanding the console's storage capacity with external drives such as the
My Passport X.

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Just to add to above if the Xbox servers detect you have made a modification such as changing the internal hard drive of the console it may end up getting the console permanently banned from connecting Xbox live.

*sigh* so sad to hear that they might ban from xbox live for a hard drive swap to increase capacity/storage space. (Could an ADMIN confirm if this is true or not please?). Trying to modify it to cheat etc I'd understand but hearing simply swapping HDD to
have more storage could be a ban able offense is very disappointing. What I loved about the PS3 (bought used) was that it had an easy pop out and in a new HDD and it formatted then boom it worked. I Just don't know why more consoles don't do this. The fact
that they want to prevent us from doing so (the honest community at least) even if we're willing to void the warranty to do so disgusts me.

Reason: Internal is less likely to drop/fall/break since an external sits loose and is smaller on it's own. I just see no reason to use an external when I want a big internal HDD to store everything and I prefer digital over discs (unless good discount used
somewhere). Especially since then there is no need to hunt for discs and the library is kept all in one place easy to find.