Looks like a good deal especially for those who took advantage of the 500GB XBOX ONE consoles pre-Xmas and looking for some extra storage.
Western Digital 1TB Elements Portable HDD $69 @ The Good Guys
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Lshockme79 on 31/12/2016 - 11:05 thegoodguys.com.au (476 clicks)
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price is $69
$69.00 plus delivery if not c&cing (alredy edited in title)
How does one use these with XBOX One consoles? As an external HDD, or you swap it with the already installed one?
External. Unless you're happy to void your warranty.
I have a 1Tb xbox, id go a 2+ if I was you, by time you put backwards compatible ect on 2+ is what you want.
Two it's then. Ta
I would think nowadays there is no easy swap for those drives - both on XBOX 1S side and portable HDD side.
Most of the time, you cannot simply crack the portable hard drive open and just use the drive, because those USB HDDs are no longer with SATA interface.
HDD manufactures usually integrate the SATA to USB on the hard drive circuit board to reduce the assembly and production costs, plus they make consumers a lot more difficult to use the internal drive for something else.I got mine 500GB XB1S and I plugged in a TOSHIBA 1TB USB drive - you cannot feel much of the difference in terms of performance. I think the bottleneck of transfer speed would be hard drive itself and it's no longer on USB3. If you can source some of 7200RPM or even SSD, I guess the performance would be much better than the internal drive.
So if you have to go with the SSD do you have to buy one of those enclosures (can't remember their technical term) that you put the HDD (SSD in this case) in and use it as an external hard drive?
Exactly, you need a USB HDD case to be able to convert from SATA (the most common protocol in consumer market) to USB.
A cheapo case would do the job… I grabbed 2 sets of ORICO cheap case and both of them are working well.
Example Link Only…You might find somewhere for a cheaper price - or wait OZB for next deal…
@bjdchwr0: Thank you. I have a couple of extra games that would need more space in my console so all sorted now.
anybody out here that bought one of them 2TB usb sticks on wish? They said their capacity was guaranteed if so why go mechanical if one can go solid state for less?
They say they are 2tb when you plug them in as that is what the flash/firmware is saying it is. Like the fake SD cards on ebay. I think about 1tb is the max and they are Lots of dollars - quick google- https://www.scorptec.com.au/product/USB-Sticks-&-Hubs/USB-St… - they are $949 for 1tb.
But it's your data, you take the punt.The fact they have to add a guarantee on size is a red flag to me. There used to be fake Kingston 256GB sticks floating around, when put in a USB drive the computer would says 256GB but if you copied data it would only copy up to 4GB then corrupt the rest of the files. Often the original 4GB space would end up with corrupt files too.
Honestly, steer clear of any high capacity USB's until they are more mainstream.
Spring for a 2TB - you'll eventually need it with some games 50GB+ these days. This 2TB for $108 seems to be great value for money and worked like a charm in my XBOX - http://www.harveynorman.com.au/wd-elements-2tb-portable-hard… - otherwise they have this 1TB for $65 also - http://www.harveynorman.com.au/seagate-expansion-1tb-portabl…
Officeworks Seagate 2TB portable is only $99. Twice the capacity for an extra $30.
How are these things still the same price as they were 2-3 years ago?
And they are ususlly terrible quality as well.
How much?
Better put price and retailer in title before you get slammed.