Expand Your Xbox 360 With USB Storage Today
A pair of USB sticks can boost your Xbox 360's storage by 32GB starting now.
Earlier in the month we reported that the Xbox 360 will be supporting external storage in an upcoming update. Today, that update is here.
This news should come as a huge relief to Xbox 360 gamers already at the brink of their storage, especially for those without hard drives or are still using the old 20GB models.
Before you plug your drives in, know these couple of things:
· You can have two devices connected to the console at a time, enabling up to 32GB of simultaneous storage.
· The system won’t just configure the device once it is connected to the console. You’ll need to head to the memory area in system settings, select your USB Device, and choose from Configure Now (Format and Configure the Full Device), or Customize (you can choose how much memory you want configured for Xbox360 from the free space on the device.)
This could be as close as things get to running an Xbox 360 SSD setup.
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Very welcome news. PS3 has had it from the start...I've been envying that feature for too long.
32gb is nice I guess, but can you use an external HD or does it have to be a flash drive. From a user standpoint I find it idiotic to be able to do one but not the other.
I'm guessing flash drives only otherwise you would never buy the bigger hard drives specially made for the XBox 360.
Any USB drive will due, does not have to be a flash drive. It will partition up to 16GB's on any attached drive and allocate the remaining space for other non-xBox storage.
I already moved my profile and ALL of my saves to a 4GB stick I bought just for this purpose. It reports it as a memory card in games. (which is funny to see when the game in question shows an actual picture of a memory card - and I've never owned one.
I even put stuff like Perfect Dark from the arcade on it and it doesn't seem any slower in loading than it did on the SATA connected hard drive.
I'm guessing flash drives only otherwise you would never buy the bigger hard drives specially made for the XBox 360.
totally agree ~ i bet they wont support those external HDD for sure~ they still fxxking selling 99 for 120G ! LOL
why is it only limited to 16gb, why can't use my external usb 500gig drive???
/sarcasm
Gosh, what to do with all that room....
/sarcasm
So... you don't need to pay for that update, too? usually everything's comeing from Microsoft is for sale, even everywhere else is free...
wow, this is useful...
One of those little card readers which turns an SD card into a USB Stick would probably work out great. Like this:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6820717002
Then you could swap cards as needed, especially since 8GB cards seem to be at the sweet spot right now as far as price goes, which in turn would also be enough room for most game installs or whatever suits your fancy.
Get a PS3
Get 32GB more space, yay. Lose 2 USB ports at the same time.
Lame.
So I can have 32gb of storage, and not be able to charge my controller?
So I can have 32gb of storage, and not be able to charge my controller?
Unless things have changed, there are 3 USB ports on the xbox - 2 on the front, and 1 on the back above the ethernet connection. With 2 USB devices, that obviously leaves you one still.
I welcomed the addition gladly, I plugged in a couple of spare 4GB drives and my free space on the hard drive is no longer
*for some reason I cannot go back and edit the above what for some reason got cut off when I hit the post reply button...???
less than 500MB. Nonetheless, I'll take what I can get even if it is an unfortunate 16GB x2 limitation.
Never noticed the USB on the back. What was that used for before this?
You guys do realise that the xbox360 will take a USB hub, right?
Why, oh why can't we just plug in a HDD like any normal machine? The PS3 can do it. Trying to profit on proprietary HDD drives is lame; I thought Microsoft more than any other company would know the money is in the software- not the hardware.