Question about the Game drive!

The Xbox One uses a 2.5" SATA hard drive, the same as conventional computers.

As a matter of fact, Xbox Ones are manufactured with the same hard drives you can find sold separately in various stores. The brand and model would vary, depending on however they contract parts for console manufacture. Microsoft seems to use Samsung-Seagate
hard drives, for example the
500GB Spinpoint M8 ST500LM012 in most original 500GB consoles, or the
2TB Spinpoint M9T ST2000LM003 in Xbox One S launch consoles.

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Okay I get that, but would I be able to use this game drive as a normal external hard drive for the pc?

Hi

When you connect an external hard drive to the Xbox One for storing and playing games the console will use the complete drive and it cannot be used for storing information from a PC as well.

Hi, yea I figured that out, but that wasn't what I was asking I was wondering if it works for the pc aswell before I use it for the xbox, so I can use it as a normal harddrive as long as I don't plug it in the xbox

The Xbox One uses a 2.5" SATA hard drive, the same as conventional computers.

As a matter of fact, Xbox Ones are manufactured with the same hard drives you can find sold separately in various stores. The brand and model would vary, depending on however they contract parts for console manufacture. Microsoft seems to use Samsung-Seagate
hard drives, for example the
500GB Spinpoint M8 ST500LM012 in most original 500GB consoles, or the
2TB Spinpoint M9T ST2000LM003 in Xbox One S launch consoles.

Keep in mind that the forums cannot provide DIY-project assistance.

Okay I get that, but would I be able to use this game drive as a normal external hard drive for the pc?

I guess you may be on about replacing the consoles internal hard drive with a larger one? If you are then you can probably get the PC to format it for use as a regular data drive however please be aware this would be classed as modifying your console and
it's detected by Microsoft it will very likely get the console banned from connecting to the Xbox servers as it could be classed as
modifying the console.

The Xbox One uses a 2.5" SATA hard drive, the same as conventional computers.

As a matter of fact, Xbox Ones are manufactured with the same hard drives you can find sold separately in various stores. The brand and model would vary, depending on however they contract parts for console manufacture. Microsoft seems to use Samsung-Seagate
hard drives, for example the
500GB Spinpoint M8 ST500LM012 in most original 500GB consoles, or the
2TB Spinpoint M9T ST2000LM003 in Xbox One S launch consoles.

Keep in mind that the forums cannot provide DIY-project assistance.

Hi

When you connect an external hard drive to the Xbox One for storing and playing games the console will use the complete drive and it cannot be used for storing information from a PC as well.