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

[Alby_da_Wolf]

errorpwns said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:

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Sure, but until they add external storage support, you need a media server for that streaming, instead of a far cheaper plain and simple USB HDD. It's not a terrible flaw, also because they said they'll add that support later, it's just a clumsy move to not support it from the start, also considering that it's quite trivial, USB storage support is provided also with the cheapest motherboards, costing at retail less than 1/10 of XBOne.

Or you know a portable HDD hooked to your computer? For the price of a high storage flash drive you could get a 500GB external HDD and use it on your PC to stream media. Heck when the Xbox One finally supports external you can use it with that! No media server needed. Your PC can act as one. 

Yes, I know this solution too could work, but with that support since the start, people, if they want, could put together an even more minimalist setup, composed of just a XBOne and an external HDD, neither media server nor PC needed. This is what MS seems to suggest with its marketing, and this will surely be possible after they add external storage support, providing it since the start would have been better, not doing it after having stressed so much XBOnes multimedia capabilities is just clumsy and nothing worse than it, no need to bash MS about it, it's just that seeing it doing so many clumsy moves, that it is anyway solving faster than in the past, is quite curious. I wonder if some of these things are related to the transition period with Ballmer leaving the CEO psition, and in this case, what's the cause-effect relation.