Would this External Hard Drive Work

Discus and support Would this External Hard Drive Work in XBoX on Consoles to solve the problem; I'm looking for a long term solution and Microsoft did say 16TB is the maximum it will allow per port, so will this work?... Discussion in 'XBoX on Consoles' started by Eric Sauco, Nov 18, 2014.

  1. Eric Sauco
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    Would this External Hard Drive Work

    Eric Sauco, Nov 18, 2014
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  2. Cutter Dee
    Cutter Dee Guest
    Transferring Content onto new xbox?

    would an external hard drive work?

    thanks for your answer
     
    Cutter Dee, Nov 18, 2014
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  3. External hard drive problems

    I was playing Xbox one evening and my console froze, so I restarted and tried playing again, most of my games were installed on my external hard drive. I tried playing every game I had on my external hard drive and none would start.

    I completely reset my console and external hard drive, i installed games on my internal hard drive and they all work, but the games I installed on my external hard drive still do not work.
     
    CanadianSnipper, Nov 18, 2014
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  4. f00xm4n
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    Would this External Hard Drive Work

    Nope it will not work, its NAS storage it has to be USB 3.0 storage, that NAS only has USB 3.0 Expansion ports (add more storage)

    Also you would be better to get 2 separate drives as you have to format them to either Apps/Games or Music/Movies.

    I would say any kind of RAID is over kill but if you had to then stick with RAID 1.

    You can hot swap them also so you could always just have multiples
     
    f00xm4n, Nov 19, 2014
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  5. Any ext. hdd will work as long as it supports usb 3.0. I'm using a Seagate Backup Plus 2tb ext hdd and it works great!
     
    MaximumExtreme, Nov 19, 2014
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  6. DEACON
    DEACON Guest
    i don't think that's they kind of external storage Microsoft had in mind lol
     
    DEACON, Oct 31, 2018
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  7. MaximumExtreme Win User

    Would this External Hard Drive Work

    Any ext. hdd will work as long as it supports usb 3.0. I'm using a Seagate Backup Plus 2tb ext hdd and it works great!
  8. f00xm4n Win User

    Would this External Hard Drive Work

    Nope it will not work, its NAS storage it has to be USB 3.0 storage, that NAS only has USB 3.0 Expansion ports (add more storage)

    Also you would be better to get 2 separate drives as you have to format them to either Apps/Games or Music/Movies.

    I would say any kind of RAID is over kill but if you had to then stick with RAID 1.

    You can hot swap them also so you could always just have multiples
  9. DEACON Win User

    Would this External Hard Drive Work

    i don't think that's they kind of external storage Microsoft had in mind lol
  10. Smwutches Win User

    Xbox one game storage

    It wouldn't work as an external hard drive. You would need an actual external hard drive attached to the console for extra storage.
  11. KrizanLovich Win User

    Which external hard drive to use with Xbox 360 ?

    as per the other comments about the use of the external hard drive for the 360 I am in the update preview program which allows additional External hard drives to be used.I purchased the same Seagate 2tb external hard drive as per my xboxone but when I apply
    the format on the xbox360 as per the instructions it replies with unable to format. Would like to know what external hard drives are compatible? I no the hard drive works as tried it on the xboxone after it would not format for the 360

    thanks

    NZ Racer
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