These issues may drive you to purchase an 'internal' Xbox 360 hard drive, which I believe uses SATA (instead of USB) and is not limited to 32GB. Instead, the sticks or external USB devices have to be formatted and. We must point out that once youve formatted the drive. Unlike the PS5, the Xbox One and Xbox Series S/X consoles dont let users easily transfer/export screenshots to USB sticks. It seems like Microsoft's intent with adding USB storage support was to replace the old Xbox 360 'memory card' with the option for using a USB flash drive, as they hint at in the FAQ section of this help page. In order to store games on your drive youll need to format it. However, if you plan on using this terabyte drive exclusively for Xbox 360 content, most of it is going to go to waste. You can also install games from disc onto the hard drive or external USB storage, and those tend to run around 6GB per disc installed, give or take. To put that 32GB limit into perspective, downloaded games can range from 500MB to upwards of 5GB, depending on the game. The Xbox 360 currently only allows for 32GB of useful storage per USB device ( UPDATE: This is changing in 2015, and 2TB drives may be fully compatible in the future, see here for details).External is the only way to go with an SSD or any internally un-supported storage device. If you were somehow able to force the 360 compatible firmware onto an SSD, all you would end up with is a bricked SSD. The answer to your particular situation is 'kind of.' You can certainly hook up a 1TB hard drive via USB 2.0. No such firmware update exists for SSDs or hard drives that are currently incompatible. The majority of Microsoft's Xbox consoles now ship with 500GB or 1TB hard drives, unfit for a sizeable. How do I partition my HDD for use on an Xbox 360? Games are getting bigger than ever, but the internal hard drive in your Xbox One is not. We kinda/sorta covered this in a couple of questions, but neither seem clear enough to be duplicates:Ĭan you run an installed Xbox 360 game off of USB flash drives now?

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