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Xbox One June Preview Update - My Real Name is External Storage
- Thread starter The Flash
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Pre-order bonuses dude.
Syphon Filter
Member
Q: Can I store game saves on the external storage device?
A: No. Game saves are automatically stored in the cloud and synced to the Xbox One console.
Aren't saves local too though?
A: No. Game saves are automatically stored in the cloud and synced to the Xbox One console.
Aren't saves local too though?
Yes they are always stored on the save partion of the internal HDD.
yes, but they probably dont want to take the risk of people editing their save files
Steverulez
Member
Last time checking before I go to bed if it doesn't work 
Dammit Microsoft.
Dammit Microsoft.
Syphon Filter
Member
It would make sense if it did eventually.
CaptainSlow
Member
This. So many people jacked around with transferring saves to increase their achievements that's it's best to just keep one place on the HDD you can't touch and save backups to the cloud.
Also, still no update in WI
Syphon Filter
Member
Can you use your saves in the cloud in another console?
Miss Portia in the beta forums. And yes, it's to address audio issues.
Turboclese
Banned
Yes. My friends has recovered her profile out my house many times and her saves are always there in the cloud. Its really awesome.
yes, once you log in to another console, all your save files are available to you as long as you have log on live before going.
They like me better.
LowerLevel
Member
ugh! Hope you have it now. I got it right after reading the 4th post (West Bridgewater, MA)
I sure hope so. I think that'll be announced at E3 or maybe a week before even.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Oh I have an update to download. Dunno if it's this update but I don't know what it would be.
Looks a little better.
Could definitely use some more work though.
Got the update. I can't try out the external storage because I don't have any USB 3.0 drives. The system gave me an error when I tried an older drive and flash drive. The store looks exactly the same, which is a little odd. System version is 1406 though.
Edit: Huh. I still had the Titanfall Beta
on my hard drive (my laziness precluded me from deleting it), but it has disappeared with this update. I think it's still taking up space, but doesn't show up in My Games and Apps.
Edit 2: Ok, so I quit and restarted My Games and Apps and now they're there. So never mind.
Edit: Huh. I still had the Titanfall Beta
and Alpha
Edit 2: Ok, so I quit and restarted My Games and Apps and now they're there. So never mind.
ElRenoRaven
Member
Yup it was the update. Auto Sign in rocks! External storage is set up and a go. So glad too. I only had 137GB left. Now I have that and a TB more.
BruiserBear
Banned
Still no update for me. They added the ability to "manually update" a while ago, but they still seem to be tightly controlling when you have access to the update. It really doesn't make sense.
It's been hours since the update began rolling out.
It's been hours since the update began rolling out.
Steelyuhas
Member
I assume the manual button should be work for the general pop updates pretty much all at the same time, but I think they still specifically roll out the preview builds in waves. Probably just in case something big is wrong with the build, they can pull it before it affects everyone in the preview program.
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
Thats weird, I did mine an hr ago. Check again.
dreamer3kx
Member
Still nothing here, Im not sure if Im even in the program to be honest, I did receive the message from MS but Im still not sure, I received it during last update also but received it when it officially came out.
SmoothRunningGun
Member
Categories should be first.
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Tatersalad
Member
External storage is cool, wish you wouldn't need the disc but oh well.
The previews are different from the official updates.
Agreed.
Hawk269
Member
Not sure if you are being serious?
VlaudTheImpaler
tl;dr
Hmmm, well this is weird, I have a whole library full of games on my X1 that I switch instantly between simply by saying "Xbox go to" and then the name of the game I want to play and I've never had to put a disc in my console.
In fact, I don't even own any discs at all.
Am I doing it wrong?
BeforeU
Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.
If anything it would be faster I think. Isn't USb 3.0 has faster transfer rate than SATA ports these consoles have?
Hawk269
Member
I am pretty sure the other guy is stating he wishes that his purchased disk based gamed no longer need the disk in the drive. You have your game DIGITAL which do not require the disk. I am not sure if the other user was being serious as it seems pretty odd to think adding HDD external support would not require you to have the disk for disk based games.
Zeuanimals
Member
OMG! The Heavy Sundance Kid.
Yeah, that's what it looks like, but as I'm researching this out I see people who say that since sata is specialized for file transfer which makes a difference. But I don't know anything about this so I'm trying to find people and legitimate sources that could make things clear.
Sata II is pretty slow and USB 3.0 is actually faster than Sata II. 5.0 Gbps (USB 3.0) vs 3.0 Gbps (SATA II). I think being able to use a 7200 rpm hard drive in the external will actually be the most beneficial thing as right now the Xbox One uses a 5400 rpm drive internally.
Yeah, I've seen that it's faster. What I was trying to understand if there are other factors that would impact the performance: for example, I've read that if you use a 7200 rpm HDD that it won't come close to filling the bandwidth of either interface, so it wouldn't matter which drive you install it on.
Another thing I've read is that USB by its nature has to support lots of different devices and uses and therefore isn't as good as SATA at file transfers.
The sad thing is, all the things I've read have just been on forums and not from good, reliable sources, so I'm not sure I believe it.
Anyway, maybe DF can do an in depth analysis of some games off an external HDD to clear things up. That's cool that it will be an option for Xbox soon.
Games that run off the external drive play at 59fps.
BabyFaceKillah
Member
Yo can i get an invite also please, i didn't even know they had a preview program.
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