nav[aria-label="Primary Navigation"] { padding: 0; & ul { list-style: none; width: 100%; display: flex; flex-direction: row; justify-content: start; align-items: start; gap: 30px; padding: 0; & li { margin: 0; } & ul li { list-style: none; } } }

Child Item

Hardware Discussion Thread

Myrddin

As per the title folks, any posts related to Xbox One or 360 hardware can go in here. This is as a result of the locking of the general discussion thread, we will need a place for general hardware chat etc.

Find more posts tagged with

Quick Links

Comments

dunworth1

I imagine that the decision for the 500gb drive was to bring costs down.

But they should have offered two models a basic and premium

calex71

How hard is it to open the case Misky ? I remember the 360 needing a T6 or a T8 to open, cant' actually flip mine around where it is to see.

calex71

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

You still have over a years warranty then? My warranty's out in February anyway so it's not too bad lol.

Just waiting on uBuntu to download at the moment and I'll be straight into formatting. I'll be back to let you's know it worked ok, (fingers crossed) :pac:

So it uses a GPT format even though it's only a 500 GB drive originally ??? Haven't checked but you should be able to do that in windows with the right tools.

Edit: Oh wait I see what they did , it's not a straight GPT format, MS have modified it slightly to make the discs unreadable in windows. Anti Piracy or what ever?

Actually the fact they went with GPT would point to them having larger discs in mind down the road so that makes sense.

MiskyBoyy

2Mad2BeMad wrote: »

I think the hdd were way to small. Standard should of been 1tb and 2tb models. Surely someone must of known the size of games would increase 10 fold. Need a new 2tb now meself. Might even go higher seen as i know it will b used up. Hate deleting games though like little virtual collections haha

Yeah I'm exactly the same. Even if I won't play them for ages. I hate owning a few games and not having them installed

2TB worked fine as internal hard drive anyway. Just copying all my 380gb of currently installed games onto new hard drive now which is taking a good while!

FQA1D8a.jpg?1

2Mad2BeMad

I think the hdd were way to small. Standard should of been 1tb and 2tb models. Surely someone must of known the size of games would increase 10 fold. Need a new 2tb now meself. Might even go higher seen as i know it will b used up. Hate deleting games though like little virtual collections haha

rottie 11

So it would just upgrade the standard hardrive , must get one soon as it half full after 2 months and have alot of games to get yet

MiskyBoyy

rottie 11 wrote: »

And you just plug it in the usb port? But games stored on hdd and that thing would be seperate then? Like would the games still be in my games and apps?

If you were just using it by plugging it into the usb port on the side to store your games and such then yes your games would still show up in your games and apps like normal and your total storage would show your total free storage of the xbox hard drive and external hard drive combined.

rottie 11

runawaybishop wrote: »

about 1800 when you use it.

And you just plug it in the usb port? But games stored on hdd and that thing would be seperate then? Like would the games still be in my games and apps?

runawaybishop

rottie 11 wrote: »

Just wondering what is 2tb ? Its 2000gb is it?

about 1800 when you use it.

rottie 11

Just wondering what is 2tb ? Its 2000gb is it?

rottie 11

Just wondering what is 2tb ? Its 2000gb is it?

MiskyBoyy

Lucious Sweet wrote: »

Actually doesn't look too bad. I might give it a go in a few months when my HDD fills up. My console is only 3 weeks old :-)
Interested to see how you get on though.

You still have over a years warranty then? My warranty's out in February anyway so it's not too bad lol.

Just waiting on uBuntu to download at the moment and I'll be straight into formatting. I'll be back to let you's know it worked ok, (fingers crossed) :pac:

Lucious Sweet

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Yeah it is a bit of effort alright but I love this kind of stuff. I guess it wouldn't suit everyone.

Sorry this is the guide for formatting the HDD to be used as the internal HDD in the Xbox I meant to post not the other link, for anyone who's interested:

Actually doesn't look too bad. I might give it a go in a few months when my HDD fills up. My console is only 3 weeks old :-)
Interested to see how you get on though.

MiskyBoyy

Lucious Sweet wrote: »

That looks a bit messy for me. Think I'll just plug the drive into the USB port.

Yeah it is a bit of effort alright but I love this kind of stuff. I guess it wouldn't suit everyone.

Sorry this is the guide for formatting the HDD to be used as the internal HDD in the Xbox I meant to post not the other link, for anyone who's interested:

Lucious Sweet

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

There's a guide on how to format the new HDD for the Xbox ONE here: http://www.ludvikjerabek.com/2014/07/14/xbox-one-fun-with-gpt-disk/

& there's a guide on how to take the Xbox apart here: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Xbox+One+Teardown/19718

That looks a bit messy for me. Think I'll just plug the drive into the USB port.

MiskyBoyy

Andddd I'm in:

2HGuLEh.jpg?1

Years worth of dust starting to take over already!

MiskyBoyy

GottaGetGatt wrote: »

It was €80 on amazon last week so I picked it up, had my eye on it for a long time in argos.

Job

It wasn't listed under portable hard drives on argos website so I never seen it. Just happened to spot the 1tb version so said **** it they must have the 2tb one so! Under desktop hard drives it was, doh!

Pretty nice price tho for a bricks & mortar store. €1.01 cheaper than Amazon at the moment and I'm an impatient bastard when it comes to stuff like this

GottaGetGatt

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

So it turns out Argos actually have that exact same HDD but for €2 cheaper, who would have known!

On my way in to collect it now

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/2489935.htm

It was €80 on amazon last week so I picked it up, had my eye on it for a long time in argos.

MiskyBoyy

So it turns out Argos actually have that exact same HDD but for €2 cheaper, who would have known!

On my way in to collect it now

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/2489935.htm

MiskyBoyy

There's a guide on how to format the new HDD for the Xbox ONE here: http://www.ludvikjerabek.com/2014/07/14/xbox-one-fun-with-gpt-disk/

& there's a guide on how to take the Xbox apart here: https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Xbox+One+Teardown/19718

maximoose

Interesting. Let us know how it goes, have to start looking at storage options soon!

dunworth1

Lucious Sweet wrote:

I thought the X1 HDD was not swappable?

It's not supported but doable

Lucious Sweet

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Just ordered a 2TB 2.5" HDD for my Xbox ONE which comes with a usb 3.0 enclosure to use as plug and play external storage for Xbox but I plan on taking it out of the enclosure and putting it into my Xbox instead of the stock 500gb. Watch this space...

I thought the X1 HDD was not swappable?

MiskyBoyy

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

Product Link?

Oh yeah forgot to link it and mention its €84

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B00ILALU9G/ref=cm_sw_r_awd_O-QCub0BW065F

FAILSAFE 00

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Just ordered a 2TB 2.5" HDD for my Xbox ONE which comes with a usb 3.0 enclosure to use as plug and play external storage for Xbox but I plan on taking it out of the enclosure and putting it into my Xbox instead of the stock 500gb. Watch this space...

Product Link?

MiskyBoyy

Just ordered a 2TB 2.5" HDD for my Xbox ONE which comes with a usb 3.0 enclosure to use as plug and play external storage for Xbox but I plan on taking it out of the enclosure and putting it into my Xbox instead of the stock 500gb. Watch this space...

MiskyBoyy

Hears6 wrote: »

Weird then as when I go to set it up, its just popping up as a media device rather than a storage device, and tbh speed isn't everything for me atm.

You'll have to format it to use it for game storage. You won't be able to use it as a media storage once you do this and anything that you have on the hard drive will be wiped.

go to Settings>System>Manage Storage, choose the external drive you want to format, and select Format.

You should then be able to use it for games storage

Hears6

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Not a thing wrong with it at all

It would do the job very nicely, they also have the portable version for about a fiver extra which is a smaller form factor but same storage space and doesn't need to take up an extra socket. Takes power straight from the USB port on the Xbox.

Just also note that they're both 5400rpm which wouldn't be as fast loading games as a 7200rpm drive but it would be just about as fast as the current hard drive that's actually in the Xbox.

Weird then as when I go to set it up, its just popping up as a media device rather than a storage device, and tbh speed isn't everything for me atm.

MiskyBoyy

Hears6 wrote: »

Probably the wrong place to post this but any one use this drive as an external drive for their xbox ?
http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/1443673/Trail/searchtext%3EEXTERNAL+HARDDRIVE.htm

Not a thing wrong with it at all

It would do the job very nicely, they also have the portable version for about a fiver extra which is a smaller form factor but same storage space and doesn't need to take up an extra socket. Takes power straight from the USB port on the Xbox.

Just also note that they're both 5400rpm which wouldn't be as fast loading games as a 7200rpm drive but it would be just about as fast as the current hard drive that's actually in the Xbox.

Hears6

Probably the wrong place to post this but any one use this drive as an external drive for their xbox ?
http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/1443673/Trail/searchtext%3EEXTERNAL+HARDDRIVE.htm