Subj : Support for massive external hard drives over 16TB is coming to X
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From : TechnologyDaily
Date : Thu Jan 23 2025 11:00:07

Support for massive external hard drives over 16TB is coming to Xbox, here's 
everything you need to know

Date:
Thu, 23 Jan 2025 10:43:06 +0000

Description:
Support for external hard drives over 16TB is coming to Xbox soon.

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for external hard drives over 16TB is coming soon to Xbox The feature is 
currently rolling out to Xbox Insider members It's expected to become widely 
available in the coming weeks 

Support for larger external hard drives is coming to Xbox, with the feature 
currently available as part of the latest Xbox Update Preview for Xbox 
Insider members. 

As detailed in the Xbox Update Preview Release Notes , the company will soon 
be enabling support for external storage devices over the previous 16TB 
limit. Such drives will be formatted with multiple partitions, causing them 
to appear as multiple devices in the consoles storage device menu. If youre 
already using a drive thats above 16TB, just bear in mind that it will need 
to be reformatted in order to take advantage of the update. 

Although uncommon, manufacturers like Western Digital are already selling 
external hard drives with 18TB and even 28TB capacities. Theyre far from 
cheap, but this still seems like quite a wise forward-thinking change. The 
price of external storage reliably falls over time, so such high capacity 
drives are likely going to become much more affordable in the coming months 
and years. 

External hard drives are a popular alternative to the official Xbox Storage 
Expansion Card format, which is considerably more expensive. Theyre generally 
much slower and have a few key limitations, including the inability to play 
Xbox Series X or Xbox Series S games directly from the storage device. Xbox 
One, in addition to Xbox 360 and original Xbox, titles are supported, but 
tend to load a little slower than those on the internal drive. 

The update is expected to roll out to non-Insider users in the coming weeks. 
If youre looking for some recommendations for models to pick up before then, 
head over to our guide to the best Xbox Series X hard drives and SSDs . You 
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Link to news story:
https://www.techradar.com/gaming/support-for-massive-external-hard-drives-over
-16tb-is-coming-to-xbox-heres-everything-you-need-to-know


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