Hardware Discussion Thread

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...

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

Lucious Sweet wrote:

I thought the X1 HDD was not swappable?

It's not supported but doable

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

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.

Andddd I'm in:



Years worth of dust starting to take over already!

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 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:

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

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?

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

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!

There's a lightning deal coming up at 12:40pm on this 3TB Seagate External HDD

Currently at £78.99, so hopefully around £50-60 mark!

maximoose wrote: »

There's a lightning deal coming up at 12:40pm on this 3TB Seagate External HDD

Currently at £78.99, so hopefully around £50-60 mark!

Definitely keeping an eye on this!

Also seen this, a 64gb dual usb drive, it's £20 already, wonder will it go down
much more than that :eek: http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00HR7J3CA/ref=gb1h_img_c-3_2147_2ba4e793?pf_rd_m=A3P5ROKL5A1OLE&pf_rd_t=101&pf_rd_s=center-3&pf_rd_r=17P914Y52MKRPE8DBAZJ&pf_rd_i=161428031&pf_rd_p=560262147

maximoose wrote: »

Gone within a minute ffs :pac:

Down to £64.99 was hoping for more

It's ****e anyway, it said there was only 1 on flash sale?

Anyone looking to do the internal 2TB hard drive like I did or even looking for a handy size 2TB for external games storage, this is as cheap as I've seen yet. €79.99 for 2.5" portable one in PC World for Black Friday sale

http://www.pcworld.ie/Product/seagate-expansion-stbx2000401-portbl-hard-drive-2-tb-black/317963/393.6

Deleted User wrote: »

I'm going to argos today (have a e10 voucher) and just wondering what external hard drive would be the best to buy for Xbox One?

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/1443673/c_1/1%7Ccategory_root%7COffice%252C%2BPCs%2Band%2Bphones%7C14418968/c_2/3%7C19780850%7CHard%2Bdrives%252C%2BUSBs%2Band%2Bdata%2Bstorage%7C14419053/c_3/4%7Ccat_14419053%7CExternal%2Bhard%2Bdrives%7C16528298.htm

http://www.argos.ie/static/Product/partNumber/2489935/c_1/1|category_root|Office%2C+PCs+and+phones|14418968/c_2/3|19780850|Hard+drives%2C+USBs+and+data+storage|14419053/c_3/4|cat_14419053|External+hard+drives|16528298.htm

Thanks for any help.

I've had the portable one connected to my xbox for a few months and it works perfectly, never had any problems with playing games from it and 2TB should be more than enough, I still have 1.6TB free space.

FAILSAFE 00 wrote: »

What did you do with the 500GB hard drive that you took out of the XB1?

Can it be reformatted and placed into the casing of the other drive you bought?

I haven't done anything with it at the moment tbh. It can be formatted and used on pc or for anything if you want but I just haven't bothered yet tbh.

Only thing slightly putting me off doing so is the fact that you can't factory reset your xbox one with the 2TB hard drive in it. As it won't boot after doing this, it will give error screens and also a **** attack to me! :P

It creates partitions based on a 500gb HDD is the reason why.

So after this happened, I had to put stock HDD back in xbox and it worked perfectly, then factory reset xbox, then re-format 2TB HDD on Linux again for use in the XB1, then swapped them over and restart downloading your games with the new hdd in it, or transfer them from an external like I did with most of mine.

Btw, reason it needs to be factory reset is after you put 2TB into Xbox, it will show up as 0% used but all your games and apps will still think they're installed.

ROAAAR wrote: »

I'm surprised voice commands aren't supports in Ireland as of yet. Any idea as to when this may be happening?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/xbox-one/feature-availability

Oh anther thing is that now my xbox is turning on my tv which is pretty cool, it's just that it's turning it on to the old analogue tuner rather than hdmi1. Is there a way to make it turn onto hdmi from the start up?

Voice commands work in Ireland for a while now. I only posted this in a similar thread earlier.

MiskyBoyy wrote: »

Voice commands work if console set to Ireland for months now. Go to Settings>System switch region to Ireland and an option will pop up to the right of Ireland for you to choose what language to enable voice commands in, set to English (U.S) or English (U.K) and restart, and you'll now have Irish store and voice commands.