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Xbox Consoles will soon allow up to 16TB of Storage

Draugoth

Gold Member
Xbox consoles will soon support external USB drives larger than 16TB. It’s rolling out to some Xbox insiders today



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Celcius

°Temp. member
I'm guessing they have to do a "hack" to use multiple partitions and trick it into thinking there's multiple drives due to some constraint of the OS?
 

Nonehxc

Member
Wat.

I just have the one TB SX comes with and I'm chockfull of great games and thousands of hours of fun: Harold Halibut, Starfield, Indiana Jones, STALKER 2, Mass Effect Legendary, etc etc etc to name 1/3rd of what I have installed right now.

What the fuck would I need sixteen fucking TB for? 🤷‍♂️
 

Quasicat

Member
I have 3TB of ssd storage and 8TB of an external hdd and both are mostly full. I wish I could pop in a normal ssd and upgrade it that way. It would be much more convenient.
 

ReBurn

Gold Member
Can I hook up a 4 bay enclosure with 64 TB? It would be kind of cool to download everything I ever bought just to see how much space it all takes.
 

adamsapple

Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Can I hook up a 4 bay enclosure with 64 TB? It would be kind of cool to download everything I ever bought just to see how much space it all takes.

Sounds like it, the topic title has been Draugoth Draugoth 'ed, the actual article says they're allowing support LARGER THAN 16TB, not UPTO 16TB.

It will divide > 16TB into multiple partitions so you can still use all the space, it just shows up as multiple different devices connected to the console.

edit: I don't know if enclosures will work, the article doesn't go into that kind of minutiae.
 
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ReBurn

Gold Member
Sounds like it, the topic title has been Draugoth Draugoth 'ed, the actual article says they're allowing support LARGER THAN 16TB, not UPTO 16TB.

It will divide > 16TB into multiple partitions so you can still use all the space, it just shows up as multiple different devices connected to the console.

edit: I don't know if enclosures will work, the article doesn't go into that kind of minutiae.
Sounds like a science experiment is in order.
 

odhiex

Member
Is this for storage only? I thought that Series S/X games could only run on the internal SSD and/or the SSD expansion?
 

LordCBH

Member
Imagine, it's 2025 and those shitty cards are still over $150.

Over $200 if you want 2TB. I don’t care how much Microsoft tries to convince me they’re pro consumer on anything, Vita Series X memory card prices show otherwise.
 
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