Xbox One includes a 500GB as standard. Whenever you first get your console 500GB might look like plenty, but with A game setup sizes reaching the 40GB mark that 500GB hard drive will fill up. Plus, we hate the notion of having to delete games to make space. Especially when games of this magnitude require a complete aeon to download over a standard Wi-Fi connection.
So, you might be thinking about what's the best way to upgrade the outside storage onto your own Xbox One.
Step 1 -- Select your external hard drive
The first step to updating your Xbox One's internal storage is choosing that xbox one external hard drive you wish to utilize. And there are plenty to choose from. Microsoft's only caveats for your Xbox One will encourage is that it has to be at least 256GB in proportion and also be USB 3.0 compatible.
The Xbox One may actually support up to two 256GB or larger USB 3.0 drives, meaning you are able to expand your internal storage exponentially if you're willing to fork out on a few hundred quid. We've chosen for the 2TB WD My Passport Ultra Metal Edition. It's USB 3.0 and in 2TB it quadruples the available storage in our Xbox One.
Step 2 -- Plug it into a Xbox One
The Xbox One includes three USB ports that you could attach your shiny new xbox one external hard drive. We picked for one of those ones so that we could tuck the drive from sight. When your Xbox One is turned on, then plug the hard drive into one of the USB 3.0 ports. The Xbox One will probably notify you that the drive's been connected.
Although you might be enticed to socialize with the pop up, to fast and easily format your new hard drive, go to the preferences menu.
Step 3 -- Format the hard drive for game installations
Head to Setups, at that point System then choose the Manage Storage alternative. You watch your hard drive on the left-hand side, and the newest one on the best.
At the present time, it is possible to only save images, music and video files on the xbox one external hard drive, so you'll need to replicate it in order to be able to save games about it.
Choose it and you will be presented with a dropdown menu. Choose the Format for Games and Apps option and then choose Format Storage Device.
You'll be asked to give it a name, and then decide whether you want it to be the default installation drive or stay to the internal hard drive for the time being. You can always change it at a subsequent time.
If you stick with the inner hard drive, as soon as it fills up content will automatically start spilling over into your external hard drive.
But Whether you begin storing your games on your external hard drive, you can then take that drive into some friend's house and get started playing with your own games over there -- if you register into Xbox Live first anyway.
The moment you've produced your choice, select the Format Storage Device option again.
The little Xbox One loading ring will show for a moment and you'll have yourself a brand new location for all your games.
Step 4 -- Reap the benefits
Your Xbox One has currently gone out of an extremely meagre 500GB capacity to 2.5TB -- give or take a GB or two to get system admin.
That 2TB usually means an additional 100 or so games, based on an average 20-25GB install per a game. Or around 50 larger games like the 40GB Assassin's Creed Unity.
We pointed out there is a small speed boost in game load rates with names stored on the outside hard drive. That is since the WD drive's USB 3.0 connection is faster than the SATA II connection between the xbox one game console and the internal hard drive.