

You can check out the rest of the Xbox One disassembly video from iFixIt below. Hopefully Microsoft rolls out that update to allow for external hard drives before the second tier games arrive in spring of 2014, otherwise it's going to be a difficult time deciding on what stays and what goes on your hard disk. Sizes of games are likely to double later into the eighth gen of gaming, and optimized compression techniques will stand front and center as some titles could install into massive 60GB or 70GB beasts.įor now, Xboners will have to play hard-drive-space- Tetris to get the most out of that irreplaceable 500GB unit. To do this, you can go to the Start menu, open the Run prompt, and just enter the diskmgmt.msc command. Step 1 To start with, you need to launch the Disk Management utility tool on your Windows. That non-replaceable 500GB hard drive fills up pretty quick, eh?Īlso take into account that these are first-generation games. The process to format hard drive for Xbox One is the same for both kinds of disks and can be done in the following way.
XBOX ONE NEW HARD DRIVE OS INSTALL MOVIE
That's not including game saves, movie saves, movie streaming, media storage, music or game streaming content. Is there any way possible to use my existing external hard drive as the main hard drive or does the Xbox always need to have an internal hard drive My external hard drive is a Seagate Expansion Desktop Drive (4Tb) Thanks. If you decided to buy those three games, you're looking at a total of 104GB and only 287GB of free storage left. I believe the internal hard drive of my Xbox One is dead. The PS4 gives you nearly 20 additional gigabytes of workable space, which could make the difference between storing an extra game or not, such Assassin's Creed IV, which is an even 20GB.įor those of you who don't think that the 391gb limit is that bad, take into account that all Xbox One games require full hard drive installations, and games like Call of Duty: Ghosts clocks in at 39GB, while titles like Forza 5 is 31GB and Ryse is 34GB.

Just for comparison, the PlayStation 4 leaves you with 408 gigabytes of usable storage space with the default hard drive, as reported by Geekfed.
