Media Player Preview using 3TB USB 3.0 hard drive sometimes not working properly with certain ...

Guys, it seems to be a HARD DRIVE/USB 3.0 interface issue. For one thing, I have noticed that when I need to access to my my 2TB app and games drive, it will first have to spin up, leaving a long gap of time when it is not available. If this happens in a
game, I would imagine that it would cause a failure. Perhaps it is something as simple as the hard drive spins down after a certain amount of time inactive. The other is that I have a 3TB Seagate 3.5 inch drive in a Rosewill USB 3.0 enclosure for movies and
TV shows. About 4% of the movies either do not work or worse hang up the Media Player Preview while either trying to play the movie or EVEN worse, just trying to display the thumbnail. NOTHING WRONG WITH THE MOVIES. If I copy the movies onto a USB thumb drive,
It displays the thumbnail and works fine.

If you get desperate enough, get a large USB 3.0 thumb drive and use that until MS can figure out either how to get Hard drives to work properly or gives us a list of compatible hard drives/ enclosures.

PS I tried turning off the instant on to see if the long boot up causes the hard drive to automatically spin up. No luck. Something to try tho.

WD 3TB USB 3.0 external drive here. Works like a charm.

You can already use USB Flash drives and hard drives on Xbox One to view videos, music and pictures. To view these files you first need to download the Media Player Preview App from the Xbox One Marketplace. Connect your device and load the app.

To use an external hard drive for Xbox One storage, the device itself must be at least 256GB and USB 3.0. Which means the external storage for Xbox One data must be a hard drive, USB Flash drives are not supported for Xbox One storage.

[quote user="Dilbert88"]I'm looking at the "Seagate Expansion 3TB Desktop External Hard Drive USB 3.0"[/quote]

That's the exact same external drive I use, and I have not had a single problem with it.

The Xbox 360 had a hard set limit on the partition sizes allowed on external devices. Xbox One will NOT have this same limit.

Personally, I prefer having an external USB 3.0 3TB or 2TB to use instead of an internal. Easier to swap, easier to take with you. USB 3.0 is pretty darn fast too. I can get a 3TB USB3.0 drive on sale for under 140$.