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Plus, we hate the thought of having to delete games to make space for new ones. Especially when games of that size take an absolute aeon to download over a standard Wi-Fi connection. So, you might be wondering what’s the best way to upgrade the external storage on your Xbox One. Well, unlike the PS4, where you’ll need to get your screwdriver out, Microsoft has made the Xbox One compatible with external hard drives instead. It’s a quick and easy process that we’re going to help you through with our Xbox One HDD upgrade guide. Here’s what will happen on your Xbox One UI as you install: Step 1 – Choose your external hard drive. The first step to upgrading your Xbox One’s internal storage is choosing which external hard drive you want to use. And there are plenty to choose from. Microsoft’s only caveats for what the Xbox One will support is that it has to be at least 256GB in size and be USB 3.0 compatible. The Xbox One can actually support up to two 256GB or larger USB 3.0 drives, meaning you can expand your internal storage exponentially if you’re willing to fork out a couple of hundred quid. We’ve opted for the 2TB WD My Passport Ultra Metal Edition. It’s USB 3.0 and at 2TB it quadruples the available storage on our Xbox One. Plus, it’s only £100, making it one of the more affordable 2TB USB 3.0 hard drives. Actually, if you opt for the non-metal version, you can get them for around £80 from various online retailers. The WD My Passport Ultra is a 5400RPM drive, the same as the Xbox One’s built-in drive, meaning you won’t notice any performance difference between your internal and external drives. You could pay more for a 7200RPM hard drive, but they’re considerably more money than the 54000RPM options. Step 2 – Plug it into your Xbox One. The Xbox One has three USB ports that you could attach your shiny new external hard drive to. We opted for one of the rear ones so we could tuck the hard drive out of sight. Sign up for the newsletter. Get news, competitions and special offers direct to your inbox. When your Xbox One is turned on, plug the hard drive into one of the USB 3.0 ports. The Xbox One will notify you that the external hard drive’s been connected. Although you might be tempted to interact with the pop-up, to quickly and easily format your new hard drive, go to the settings menu. Step 3 – Format the hard drive for game installations. Head to Settings, then System and then choose the Manage Storage option. You’ll then see your internal hard drive on the left-hand side, and the new external one on the right. At the moment, you can only store pictures, music and video files on the external hard drive, so you’ll need to format it in order to be able to store games on it. Select it and you’ll be presented with a dropdown menu. Choose the Format for Games & Apps option and then select Format Storage Device. You’ll be asked to give it a name, and then decide whether you want it to be the default installation drive or stick with the internal hard drive for now. You can always change it at a later date. If you stick with the internal hard drive, as soon as it fills up content will automatically start spilling over into your external hard drive. But if you start storing your games on your external hard drive, you can then take that drive to a friend’s house and start playing your own games over there – if you sign into Xbox Live first anyway. Once you’ve made your choice, select the Format Storage Device option again. The little Xbox One loading circle will show for a moment and then you’ll have yourself a new location for all your games. Step 4 – Reap the benefits. Your Xbox One has now gone from a rather meagre 500GB capacity to 2.5TB – give or take a GB or two for system admin. That 2TB means an additional 100 or so games, based on an average 20-25GB install per AAA title. Or around 50 larger games like the 40GB Assassin’s Creed Unity. We noticed that there’s a slight speed increase in game load speeds with titles stored on the external hard drive. That’s because the WD drive’s USB 3.0 connection is faster than the SATA II connection between the Xbox One and the internal hard drive. Blocked IP Address. Your IP address has been temporarily blocked due to a large number of HTTP requests. The most common causes of this issue are: Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images, overloading our search engine Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time. 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What's New - New games, FAQs, reviews, and more. © 2018 CBS Interactive Inc. All rights reserved. Should you upgrade Xbox One with an SSD? Loading times are getting out of hand - can solid-state storage reduce waits on Microsoft's console? By Thomas Morgan Published 06/03/2016. Having seen the worthwhile results of SSD and hybrid drive upgrades on PlayStation 4, it's now Xbox One's turn in the test seat. With its stock 5,400rpm drive turning in loading times of well over a minute in certain titles - such as Just Cause 3 and Grand Theft Auto 5 - Microsoft's machine thankfully has plenty of options to speed up the downtime. One of its trump cards is the ability to connect to any external drive via USB 3.0, making the upgrade path much more fluid than it is on PS4. That is, provided you have one specific tool for the job. Now, it's possible to buy an external SSD and be done with it - but there's a more affordable path to the same results. For all our tests below, we rely on a simple USB enclosure device that costs in the region of Ј10-15, allowing us to connect any spare 2.5 inch laptop drive you like to the console. As long as it has a SATA interface, you can even slot in SSD or hybrid drives, and this combo comes in at a significantly lower price. Once connected, there's no lengthy 'backup and restore' process on Xbox One either; you simply copy a game over from the internal to the attached drive, and reap the rewards in faster read speeds. As a test process, this has made putting this article together much easier than on PS4, but the key hardware is otherwise the same. As before, we're pitting the Xbox One stock drive against a 1TB Seagate hybrid SSHD that relies on a small cache of fast NAND memory to boost access speeds, coming in at around Ј70. As an upgrade option it doubles the storage space over the console's standard 500GB drive, but also vies for read and write speeds with to a pricey SSD. To show the real deal at work though, we also have a full-fledged OCZ Trion 100 drive that falls around the Ј100 mark for its 480GB model. Xbox One benefits hugely from an SSD or hybrid drive upgrade in open world titles like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Just Cause 3. Tom and Dave run through the test results to highlight the pros and cons for each game. Order the OCZ Trion 100 480GB[?] or the Seagate 1TB Hybrid SSHD[?] from Amazon with free shipping. So let's get to the tests, and where better to start than Dead Rising 3 - an Xbox One exclusive that built up some notoriety for its long loading screens at launch. With all patches applied to date, the initial load of 29 seconds on a stock drive isn't the most radical of waits these days - and a possible sign of optimisation since. However, the frequency of loading screens is more the issue here when selecting chapters, and moving to an SSD only shaves eight seconds off its prologue (while a hybrid saves five seconds). In other words, the upgrade isn't substantial enough for Dead Rising 3 fans to be swayed here. The cumulative gains might stack up for each loading screen by the game's end, but it's one of the smallest gains overall compared to the rest of our tests. Meanwhile, titles like Grand Theft Auto 5 fall on the opposite end of the spectrum - and this brings out the biggest improvement of any game we've seen in moving to an SSD or hybrid on console. Indeed, there may only be one initial loading screen to it, but the savings are big in Rockstar's blockbuster title. Both solid state and hybrid drives come in at circa 25 seconds for this first load screen - in our case, spawning at O'Neil Way on each to keep the test fair. This shaves over a minute off the Xbox One stock drive's one minute and 28 second wait, and makes Grand Theft Auto 5 one of the main benefactors of an upgrade. Of course, the RAGE engine simply streams assets as we move around the world from here, but it's a clear saving nevertheless. Xbox One game performance generally sees little or no improvement by using an SSD, outside of improved loading times. The exception to the rule is Fallout 4, which still has a horrible stutter bug on the Microsoft console, solved by copying the game to an external SSD. The story so far is that a hybrid does a close enough job for a lower price - but that's not true in all cases. Notably, The Witcher 3 favours a shift to a full SSD solution, where the game's massive 40GB install can be read with minimal seek times. Novigrad City is our first test here, and for good reason: such a bustling hub provokes one the of the longest waits from the main menu. The initial load comes in at one minute and 39 seconds on Xbox One's stock drive, but the SSD cuts this down to 56 seconds, while our hybrid tails behind at 1 minute 7 seconds. The crucial point here is that the Seagate hybrid drive is some seconds off the SSD result. It's a similar story for Just Cause 3, an open-world title that continues to frustrate on Microsoft's stock drive, with initial loading times nearing two minutes . The OCZ solid state drive is a clear winner of the trio, of course, cutting that down to 57 per cent of the wait, at just over a minute when first loading into Baia. But the hybrid drive comes surprisingly close in practice, with respawn times here only three seconds off the SSD's recorded time. Just Cause 3's initial load times remain woeful regardless of your chosen option, but it's still a massive cut - and the stock drive's respawn times are chopped down by a third on SSD and hybrid. This is what we signed up for, and even other open-world projects like Fallout 4 show similar gains. In particular, NPC hubs like Concord town and Diamond city get the biggest mark-up in speed, and the high volumes of data in each spot seemingly gives these faster drives an opportunity to show off faster read speeds. Here, it's a direct 50 per cent halving on the SSD when compared to stock (note: each is loaded from the main menu), while the hybrid trails behind only by 2-5 seconds in these areas. For CD Projekt Red's superb action-RPG, The Witcher 3, the upgrade makes a more tangible difference than in most games. The choice to segregate its world into different regions forces the use of fast travelling, cuing up more loading screens along the road than your typical open-field design. Shifting from Novigrad City to Woesong Bridge, for example, incurs a 47 second wait that drops to just 26 seconds on SSD, while the hybrid falls directly between the two. It's a solid saving either way, but the price of each drive starts to scale with the speed benefits in this case. The one snag is that dying and respawning in The Witcher 3 remains a patience-testing experience on an upgraded drive. Even with all the data presumably loaded in, both hybrid and SSD take around 50 seconds to respawn into Crookback Bog - a similar timeframe as this area's initial load. This proved an issue on PS4 as well, and it's a shame no common information is reused on reloading the last save nearby. Project Cars mixes up the formula a bit, relying on a single load per race. Times vary based on the track and number of cars set up beforehand, and in a scenario of 44 AI racers on Le Mans 24 Hours, we hit 50 seconds on the stock drive. On SSD, however, we cut an impressive 14 seconds from that time, which again puts Project Cars among the better cases in terms of the overall percentage we're clawing back. Rounding out the tests is Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, where regular trips between missions and the command centre can tally up the loading times. Judging by the three missions tested, a hybrid gets a near match for SSD results on this game too - making which to go for a moot point. At under 50 per cent of the wait on stock, it turns out upgrading to either drive is well worth it, and it chops a considerable chunk off that 25-35 second loading screen. Should you upgrade your Xbox One with an SSD? The Digital Foundry verdict. Overall, there are three lessons learned from our Xbox One tests. The first is obvious; an SSD is a premium, costly solution that gets the job done better than any alternative - especially for data-heavy titles like The Witcher 3. However, the hybrid drive makes a very comparable return on the likes of Dead Rising 3 and Project Cars, and at a lower price point that still offers twice the capacity. For a catch-all improvement across all games, the SSD is the fast track to the best results, but if space on Xbox One's stock drive is a more pressing issue, then a hybrid upgrade may kill two birds with one stone. The second point is directed at the elephant in the room. Unfortunately, while these drives are much faster than Xbox One's stock solution, the full potential of both the SSD and hybrid isn't being tapped into at all. On PC, this OCZ SSD can hit peak read rates of up to 550Mbps via a direct SATA 3 connection - but Xbox One's peak transfer rate is capped significantly. Even with this bottleneck though, the improvement is clear, and benefits come mainly through the minimal seek times with solid-state tech. Last but not least, it's interesting to compare the upgrade experience with that on PS4. Simply put, it's a far easier process on Xbox One, where rather than replacing the console's internal HDD (where PS4 demands that you back up all your data in advance), this is a simple plug-and-play route. It does involve a USB enclosure, but it means we can still use the machine's existing stock drive in combination with the external - doubling up the space, and letting us choose which drive to use per game. As for the net gains in loading speeds, Xbox One benefits more than PS4 in its move to an SSD - for the simple fact its stock drive has proven slower on average than Sony's chosen unit. To explain this, Xbox One takes 19 minutes in total to run through all the above tests on its stock drive in on go. Meanwhile, PS4 achieves the same feat in 15 minutes across all the very same games. In upgrading to an SSD on each though, this total figure becomes almost identical at ten minutes for both PS4 and Xbox One. Overall, it makes the question of whether to upgrade your Xbox One drive much easier to answer. The benefits are greater on Microsoft's machine, and it's also much easier to implement. Given the sheer size of game installs so far this generation as well, where the stock 500GB limit doesn't cut it for convenience, it's quickly becoming a necessity to have that second pool of space at the ready. The only question remains: how fast do you want it? Sometimes we include links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. For more information, go here. Ben Dodson. Freelance iOS, Apple Watch, and Apple TV Developer. Using an SSD with the Xbox One. I love my Xbox One but the one big issue I have with it is loading times. This is mainly due to the spinning hard drive 1 inside and the huge amount of data it is expected to push for some of the bigger open world games like GTA V or The Witcher 3. In an effort to speed this up (and because the 500GB hard drive is almost full), I’ve upgraded my Xbox One with an external SSD 2 . The process is actually incredibly simple. You’ll need the following two things: An mSATA SSD that is at least 256GB in size. I went for a 256GB model from Transcend. A USB 3.0 enclosure for the SSD. You’ll want one that has UASP support like this one from ZTC. Do not get one from Sabrent 3 ! Once you have these, it’s a simple case of plugging the SSD into the enclosure and attaching the USB cable. This leaves you with an incredibly small device which can then be plugged into any of the 3 USB 3.0 ports on the Xbox One: As soon as you turn the Xbox One on, you’ll be alerted that a new media device has been attached and given the option to format it for games and give it a name. When you have done this, you’ll be able to copy games and apps by going to their individual storage settings and choosing the move option. I’ve only put 3 games on the SSD so far but they are all dramatically faster for loading and saving. I’ve put a few benchmarks below: This is by far my slowest game. Testing was from a cold startup (which automatically loads your previous save point) to the point at which the game was playable: SSD produces a 60% reduction in loading time. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt. The first test was from a cold start to the opening menu. SSD produces a 30% reduction in loading time (although that seemed to be as quick as it could go due to the logos and publisher videos at startup). The second test was from resuming a game from the main menu. SSD produces a 57% reduction in loading time. LEGO Jurassic World. For this test, I timed from the loading of the last save point on the main menu. It looks like LEGO Jurassic World’s loading sequence is limited to 37 seconds in order to show 3 pieces of dinosaur trivia at 12 seconds each. Playing through the game though, the time it takes to start a story and fast travel to new locations seems much faster. Overall, it seems that the SSD offers around a 55-60% reduction in speed unless there is something specifically limiting the load time (i.e. videos or placeholder content). I’m planning on just using the external drive for single player games at the moment as there isn’t much benefit in loading the Titanfall or Halo online textures any quicker when the limiting factor is the broadband connection along with everyone else. For me, the SSD option is definitely worth the cost for the big open world games that have a heavy loading time penalty when you die (looking at you GTA V) - it has also increased my overall storage space by 50% which is useful when some games are in the 100s of GB. Gross! One day I’ll look forward to telling my kids we used to store data on discs spinning at 7200rpm - it’ll be baffling to them.В ↩︎ As far as I’m aware, doing it internally would be slightly faster but would definitely invalidate any warranty!В ↩︎ The first enclosure I got was the EC-UKMS from Sabrent which was advertised as having UASP. It doesn’t and led to a 70% decrease in speed over the internal HDD with a load time of over 4 minutes for GTA V! This is the first product I’ve actually left a review for on Amazon as the title and images are blatent lies.В ↩︎ I perform all freelance work through my company Dodo Apps Ltd (07856552) registered at The Bristol Office, 2nd Floor, 5 High Street, Westbury on Trym, Bristol, England, BS9 3BY. Details about 2.5‘’ 256GB 3 USB 3.0 HUB External Hard Drive Enclosure For Xbox One Console. Seller information. Item Information. 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Having seen the worthwhile results of SSD and hybrid drive upgrades on PlayStation 4, it's now Xbox One's turn in the test seat. With its stock 5,400rpm drive turning in loading times of well over a minute in certain titles - such as Just Cause 3 and Grand Theft Auto 5 - Microsoft's machine thankfully has plenty of options to speed up the downtime. One of its trump cards is the ability to connect to any external drive via USB 3.0, making the upgrade path much more fluid than it is on PS4. That is, provided you have one specific tool for the job. Now, it's possible to buy an external SSD and be done with it - but there's a more affordable path to the same results. For all our tests below, we rely on a simple USB enclosure device that costs in the region of Ј10-15, allowing us to connect any spare 2.5 inch laptop drive you like to the console. As long as it has a SATA interface, you can even slot in SSD or hybrid drives, and this combo comes in at a significantly lower price. Once connected, there's no lengthy 'backup and restore' process on Xbox One either; you simply copy a game over from the internal to the attached drive, and reap the rewards in faster read speeds. As a test process, this has made putting this article together much easier than on PS4, but the key hardware is otherwise the same. As before, we're pitting the Xbox One stock drive against a 1TB Seagate hybrid SSHD that relies on a small cache of fast NAND memory to boost access speeds, coming in at around Ј70. As an upgrade option it doubles the storage space over the console's standard 500GB drive, but also vies for read and write speeds with to a pricey SSD. To show the real deal at work though, we also have a full-fledged OCZ Trion 100 drive that falls around the Ј100 mark for its 480GB model. Xbox One benefits hugely from an SSD or hybrid drive upgrade in open world titles like Grand Theft Auto 5 and Just Cause 3. Tom and Dave run through the test results to highlight the pros and cons for each game. Order the OCZ Trion 100 480GB[?] or the Seagate 1TB Hybrid SSHD[?] from Amazon with free shipping. So let's get to the tests, and where better to start than Dead Rising 3 - an Xbox One exclusive that built up some notoriety for its long loading screens at launch. With all patches applied to date, the initial load of 29 seconds on a stock drive isn't the most radical of waits these days - and a possible sign of optimisation since. However, the frequency of loading screens is more the issue here when selecting chapters, and moving to an SSD only shaves eight seconds off its prologue (while a hybrid saves five seconds). In other words, the upgrade isn't substantial enough for Dead Rising 3 fans to be swayed here. The cumulative gains might stack up for each loading screen by the game's end, but it's one of the smallest gains overall compared to the rest of our tests. Meanwhile, titles like Grand Theft Auto 5 fall on the opposite end of the spectrum - and this brings out the biggest improvement of any game we've seen in moving to an SSD or hybrid on console. Indeed, there may only be one initial loading screen to it, but the savings are big in Rockstar's blockbuster title. Both solid state and hybrid drives come in at circa 25 seconds for this first load screen - in our case, spawning at O'Neil Way on each to keep the test fair. This shaves over a minute off the Xbox One stock drive's one minute and 28 second wait, and makes Grand Theft Auto 5 one of the main benefactors of an upgrade. Of course, the RAGE engine simply streams assets as we move around the world from here, but it's a clear saving nevertheless. Xbox One game performance generally sees little or no improvement by using an SSD, outside of improved loading times. The exception to the rule is Fallout 4, which still has a horrible stutter bug on the Microsoft console, solved by copying the game to an external SSD. The story so far is that a hybrid does a close enough job for a lower price - but that's not true in all cases. Notably, The Witcher 3 favours a shift to a full SSD solution, where the game's massive 40GB install can be read with minimal seek times. Novigrad City is our first test here, and for good reason: such a bustling hub provokes one the of the longest waits from the main menu. The initial load comes in at one minute and 39 seconds on Xbox One's stock drive, but the SSD cuts this down to 56 seconds, while our hybrid tails behind at 1 minute 7 seconds. The crucial point here is that the Seagate hybrid drive is some seconds off the SSD result. It's a similar story for Just Cause 3, an open-world title that continues to frustrate on Microsoft's stock drive, with initial loading times nearing two minutes . The OCZ solid state drive is a clear winner of the trio, of course, cutting that down to 57 per cent of the wait, at just over a minute when first loading into Baia. But the hybrid drive comes surprisingly close in practice, with respawn times here only three seconds off the SSD's recorded time. Just Cause 3's initial load times remain woeful regardless of your chosen option, but it's still a massive cut - and the stock drive's respawn times are chopped down by a third on SSD and hybrid. This is what we signed up for, and even other open-world projects like Fallout 4 show similar gains. In particular, NPC hubs like Concord town and Diamond city get the biggest mark-up in speed, and the high volumes of data in each spot seemingly gives these faster drives an opportunity to show off faster read speeds. Here, it's a direct 50 per cent halving on the SSD when compared to stock (note: each is loaded from the main menu), while the hybrid trails behind only by 2-5 seconds in these areas. For CD Projekt Red's superb action-RPG, The Witcher 3, the upgrade makes a more tangible difference than in most games. The choice to segregate its world into different regions forces the use of fast travelling, cuing up more loading screens along the road than your typical open-field design. Shifting from Novigrad City to Woesong Bridge, for example, incurs a 47 second wait that drops to just 26 seconds on SSD, while the hybrid falls directly between the two. It's a solid saving either way, but the price of each drive starts to scale with the speed benefits in this case. The one snag is that dying and respawning in The Witcher 3 remains a patience-testing experience on an upgraded drive. Even with all the data presumably loaded in, both hybrid and SSD take around 50 seconds to respawn into Crookback Bog - a similar timeframe as this area's initial load. This proved an issue on PS4 as well, and it's a shame no common information is reused on reloading the last save nearby. Project Cars mixes up the formula a bit, relying on a single load per race. Times vary based on the track and number of cars set up beforehand, and in a scenario of 44 AI racers on Le Mans 24 Hours, we hit 50 seconds on the stock drive. On SSD, however, we cut an impressive 14 seconds from that time, which again puts Project Cars among the better cases in terms of the overall percentage we're clawing back. Rounding out the tests is Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain, where regular trips between missions and the command centre can tally up the loading times. Judging by the three missions tested, a hybrid gets a near match for SSD results on this game too - making which to go for a moot point. At under 50 per cent of the wait on stock, it turns out upgrading to either drive is well worth it, and it chops a considerable chunk off that 25-35 second loading screen. Should you upgrade your Xbox One with an SSD? The Digital Foundry verdict. Overall, there are three lessons learned from our Xbox One tests. The first is obvious; an SSD is a premium, costly solution that gets the job done better than any alternative - especially for data-heavy titles like The Witcher 3. However, the hybrid drive makes a very comparable return on the likes of Dead Rising 3 and Project Cars, and at a lower price point that still offers twice the capacity. For a catch-all improvement across all games, the SSD is the fast track to the best results, but if space on Xbox One's stock drive is a more pressing issue, then a hybrid upgrade may kill two birds with one stone. The second point is directed at the elephant in the room. Unfortunately, while these drives are much faster than Xbox One's stock solution, the full potential of both the SSD and hybrid isn't being tapped into at all. On PC, this OCZ SSD can hit peak read rates of up to 550Mbps via a direct SATA 3 connection - but Xbox One's peak transfer rate is capped significantly. Even with this bottleneck though, the improvement is clear, and benefits come mainly through the minimal seek times with solid-state tech. Last but not least, it's interesting to compare the upgrade experience with that on PS4. Simply put, it's a far easier process on Xbox One, where rather than replacing the console's internal HDD (where PS4 demands that you back up all your data in advance), this is a simple plug-and-play route. It does involve a USB enclosure, but it means we can still use the machine's existing stock drive in combination with the external - doubling up the space, and letting us choose which drive to use per game. As for the net gains in loading speeds, Xbox One benefits more than PS4 in its move to an SSD - for the simple fact its stock drive has proven slower on average than Sony's chosen unit. To explain this, Xbox One takes 19 minutes in total to run through all the above tests on its stock drive in on go. Meanwhile, PS4 achieves the same feat in 15 minutes across all the very same games. In upgrading to an SSD on each though, this total figure becomes almost identical at ten minutes for both PS4 and Xbox One. Overall, it makes the question of whether to upgrade your Xbox One drive much easier to answer. The benefits are greater on Microsoft's machine, and it's also much easier to implement. Given the sheer size of game installs so far this generation as well, where the stock 500GB limit doesn't cut it for convenience, it's quickly becoming a necessity to have that second pool of space at the ready. The only question remains: how fast do you want it? Sometimes we include links to online retail stores. If you click on one and make a purchase we may receive a small commission. For more information, go here. Use An SSD Instead Of HDD With Xbox One For Improved Game Loading Speeds. For most us, the in-built HDD that comes with Xbox One is never enough. We usually connect a external HDD to expand the storage for game installs. How about using an SSD instead of a HDD in Xbox One? It improves game loading speeds significantly. A Reddit user tried it and posted a detailed comparison of SSD and HDD game loading performance on Xbox One. Xbox One Day One Console with Preview Dashboard Samsung 850 Pro 256GB SSD Sabrent EC-UASP USB 3.0 External 2.5″ Enclosure. Each game was already installed to the internal HDD, tested, then transferred to the external SSD and tested again. Each test was run 3 times. The average is shown. Individual results never varied more than 1.5s. The first test for each game was done after a cold boot, and the subsequent 2 tests were done after quitting the game from the Home screen. Each test is comprised of loading times only; menu navigation, logos, intros were not measured. Halo MCC, DR3, and F5 are originally disc-based installs (key check?), the others are pure digital. Halo MCC, launch game from home screen till logo start. Sunset Overdrive, load saved game till playable. Forza Horizon 2, load saved game till playable. Dead Rising 3, continue story mode till playable. Forza 5, load hyper-car challenge in Prague till playable. Ryse, main menu, continue campaign (Trial by Fire, first checkpoint) till playable. The Samsung 850 Pro is probably the best bang for the buck SSD out there. The 256GB can be had for about $130-ish judging by recent deal alerts from SlickDeals.net. Stay clear of the cheaper 850 Evo 250GB, as it falls short of the minimum required drive size. Evo 500GB should be OK (in theory). 256GB is NOT a lot of space. I ran out after only 5 games being installed, and was swapping games back and forth between the HDD and SSD. You have to decide for yourself if adding a tiny SSD for a decent speed boost is worth the money, but personally, I’m glad I did. If it is, choose an external enclosure that supports UASP, as it’s optimized for SSD. 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In order to successfully upgrade the storage capacity of the Xbox One, there are several requirements that need to be met: USB 3.0 connection 256GB minimum storage space. 5400RPM drive speed. Installing the External Storage Unit. . Once an acceptable hard drive has been selected, the installation / setup process is fairly simple. Power on the Xbox One and plug the external storage device into one of the three USB 3.0 ports located on the console. Once the drive is connected, a notification should appear on the Xbox screen. Press the Menu button to proceed to the setup screen, or select it manually by navigating to: Settings > System > Manage Storage. Step Three. Select the external drive and scroll down to the Format for Games & Apps option and press A . After the storage device is successfully formatted, power off and restart the Xbox One. This is not a required step, but it is recommended. Once the XB1 restarts, the total sum of available space (between both the internal and external drives) should be displayed on the Games and Apps screen. You can now install games, apps and all of your other content to either the internal or external storage devices on your Xbox One. How to Appear Offline on Xbox One Previous. How to Update Your Xbox One Controller. © 1996-2018 Ziff Davis, LLC. We have updated our PRIVACY POLICY and encourage you to read it by clicking here. IGN uses cookies and other tracking technologies to customize online advertisements, and for other purposes. IGN supports the Digital Advertising Alliance principles. Learn More.