XBOne - Non-Replaceable HDD, External Storage NOT Supported Yet.

[Ajescent]

pezus said:

Ajescent said:

Madword said:

Ajescent said:
Unless you plan to fill up your 500gb the first 10 seconds of getting your console, this is a non-issue.

Considering they were touting the console as digital only (i.e all content was installed on disk) then 500gb is nothing these days.

My bigger concern though is that the internal HDD is non-replacable. So what happens if you have a faulty hard disk and it dies... your console is effectively dead. You cant swap it out... you have to send it back to maintenance or risk taking it apart yourself. For me this is the biggest issue... you can have a dead machine for a part that can be easily replaced.... totally bad design.

That doesn't matter, You would have to go out of your way to fill up 500gb in such a short amount of time.

I do agree that an external HDD goes against the "One box to rule them all" mantra but for what you need the 500gb for, this is not a big deal.

All One games will require a mandatory install, last time I checked. Since this is blu-ray we're talking now, many of them will likely be 20+GB so it won't take that long to fill. Also, if they really want to sell this to you as a media center, they need to support external harddrives for movies/TV shows.

I thought they changed that mandatory install lark saying games can be played off the disc?

Also, even at 20gb per disc (which I think is an over estimate but there we are) that's still about 25 games. I doubt you'll be playing 25 games at the same time.

I know the One allows you to swap between more than 2 things at a time but not 25 games.

500gb is fine