Xbox One External HD

[Blujelly]

afternoon all!

I was just wondering does the Xbox one need a certain type of external HD or different cables? It will literally just hold games on it as my Xbox is near on full.

any recommendations would be helpful.

thanks in advance

 

[MRU]

afternoon all!

I was just wondering does the Xbox one need a certain type of external HD or different cables? It will literally just hold games on it as my Xbox is near on full.

any recommendations would be helpful.

thanks in advance

No any USB 3 drive will do. Your xbox one will format the drive to the appropriate format. I bought seagate's xbox one drive simply because i liked the colour scheme & branding, but could have saved €30 just buying their standard 2tb USB 3 portable drive.

 

[Blujelly]

No any USB 3 drive will do. Your xbox one will format the drive to the appropriate format. I bought seagate's xbox one drive simply because i liked the colour scheme & branding, but could have saved €30 just buying their standard 2tb USB 3 portable drive.

Excellent cheers mate"!

 

[mdhwoods]

Great drive and doesn't require external power. can get up to 3 terrabyte.

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00M1VICO2?refRID=3QXK4BZ294ZGM1M4QNB9&ref_=pd_rhf_gw_p_img_1

 

[gkarris]

I had an old 520Meg mobile hard drive I had used in an old MacBook and got a mobile USB 3.0 case for it for $14. Small and takes power from the XBox - works great.

 

[Blujelly]

Thanks for all the advise, can you run the games for the external HD? Or do they have to be transferred across?

 

[gkarris]

Thanks for all the advise, can you run the games for the external HD? Or do they have to be transferred across?

You can move them over. Go into your games panel, choose the game and hit the "Options" key and click on "Manage"

 

[Blujelly]

You can move them over. Go into your games panel, choose the game and hit the "Options" key and click on "Manage"

I see so if you were on near full storage on the Xbox you would to need to shuffle it over the external HD, then the game you wanted to play from the external HD to Xbox one?

 

[gkarris]

I see so if you were on near full storage on the Xbox you would to need to shuffle it over the external HD, then the game you wanted to play from the external HD to Xbox one?

You can play any game from any external drive on the XBox One. The drive HAS TO BE USB 3.0 connected and formatted to the XBox One.

 

[Blujelly]

You can play any game from any external drive on the XBox One. The drive HAS TO BE USB 3.0 connected and formatted to the XBox One.

Got you!

Cheers mate

 

[Jovian9]

I've had no issues running games off of external drives. I currently have 3 portable usb 3.0 drives (2.5TB total storage on them) hooked up.

Make sure you get plenty of space b/c now that they are releasing Xbox 360 games on the Xbox One as well my system is getting near full

 

[AFEPPL]

I went with these for ours.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Collective-...1453554114&sr=8-1&keywords=xbox+one+enclosure

I then put in 1TB SSDs and also connected up a WB 3TB passport drive.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/WD-Passport...id=1453554247&sr=8-1&keywords=WD+3tb+passport

The SSD is set as the default install drive, as i get bored or play games less and less i move them to the WD drive which is basically called archive. I don't utilise the internal drive at all other than for apps.

 

[Blujelly]

thanks for the advise all