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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illaPosted:

That's so much memory lol wish I had all that space in my PS3 lol

DohPosted:

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

DohPosted:

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!

RenovatePosted:

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.

RenovatePosted:

Rant They should sell optional HDD upgrades. It would make things a lot easier.


I agree. Would also stop people like Brian "modding" it.

MawderzPosted:

Lavish
Kex i don't think its even worth it.
I can wait 5 extra seconds waiting for a console to turn on I'm not that inpaitent


There are some people that are going to want the fastest thing possible.
Which doesn't make sense to me why they are playing console and not PC.


Then they're very impatient lol

MSDSPosted:

500GB should be enough for people but it does give you more room I guess.

RantPosted:

They should sell optional HDD upgrades. It would make things a lot easier.

_MarkPosted:

Vepr I don't think the xbox one console will get modded that much at all in the near future, just because people managed to open up the console to change the drive.


Well, I think some game companies are allowing people to be able to mod their game but on a different server in the game. But, the xbox one has only been out for a few weeks so there is more modifying to do.

_MarkPosted:

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 don't think there really is a way for Microsoft to find out that you have an upgraded hard drive. I mean, it doesn't really effect anyone's gameplay, they aren't modifying the game's code to get an advantage, so why should they be console banned?


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