Modders have upgraded Xbox One's hard drive but it's not for everyone

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Microsoft's Xbox One has a Samsung 500GB SATA II hard drive inside, but it's not designed to be upgraded by anyone. In fact, people who do decide to tear open the Xbox One's case to change the drive will void the console's warranty. Having said that, some modders have posted up proof that they have been able to upgrade the drive in the console to get better game loading performance.

A modder named Brian Williams posted up a YouTube video on his blog today that shows the Xbox One with a 1TB hybrid drive from Samsung, along with a 500GB SSD, again from Samsung. Both of these drives cut the load times of "Call of Duty: Ghosts" by several seconds compared to the standard drive inside the console.

Putting in a new hard drive in the Xbox One is one thing, but getting the console to recognize that a drive has more storage space to work with is something else. A person who goes by the name "Juvenal1" has posted a way to let the Xbox One make use of a drive with bigger storage space on the GitHub website, via a Linux-based tool. Once again, this is for the advanced users so proceed at your own risk.

Microsoft has already announced it plans to update the Xbox One at some point to support external hard drives via its USB ports. The console currently does not allow users to view just how much free storage space is available, but Microsoft Xbox executive Albert Penello posted word recently on the NeoGAF message board that such a feature will be added when the external hard drive support is enabled.


https://github.com/juvenal1/xboxonehdd

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HonkPosted:

Aue Good, more storage the better. Barely any on the 360.


I have had my 360 for 4 years and it came with a 120GB storage and I still have 40GB left so yah.

1492Posted:

Good, more storage the better. Barely any on the 360.

iIIuminatiPosted:

The option for more storage would be fantastic, more space, less costs!

VPNPosted:

Renovate
SurvivalOfTheFittest They will probably get Console Banned for this, They are getting expensive hard drives, when they are paying cheap for it (just the HDD of course)


I could see them getting a console ban. First of all they're opening up their Xbox to "modify" it.


I don't see how most people are going to do it correctly.

SovietRussiaPosted:

I wish they would allow more options for storage. It's kind of stupid to just integrate 500gbs and leave no other options for storage.

RenovatePosted:

Lye I do not own an xbox one, so lets say I do get it then do this, will it void the warranty?


I could see it'll void the warranty. After all, they're taking the risk of ruining the console by modernising it.

RenovatePosted:

I could only guess they'll receive a console ban.

SurvivalOfTheFittestPosted:

I think this will void the warranty, They should get console banned for this.

CutPosted:

Lye I do not own an xbox one, so lets say I do get it then do this, will it void the warranty?


Yep since you have to open the console in order to modify it. Same as the 360.

CutPosted:

Lye Well personally I would say 500GB Is a fair enough, decent size for a hard drive, but I mean 1TB Is just ridiculous, the loading speeds will obviously increase!


To be honest, being a next-gen console, they should of had a way bigger hard drive. Just saying.


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