Sony PLEASE give us the option to use external HDDs!!

[Barozi]

d21lewis said:

Intrinsic said:

This has nothung to do with the year or the hardware, its obviously a decision Sony has chosen to make. 

I think this has to do with piracy. I really can't think of any other reason why they don't allow the use of an external HDD.

But this would have been a really awesome feature tho,  with this I could settle for a 256GB internal SSD and then a 4TB USB drive and if possible just move the games I am currently playing onto the internal drive. Copying over USB 3 will be faster than redownloading stuff. 

But now I have to use a 512GB SSD for my pro (cause I can't justify buying a 1TB SSD for it). 

on the XB1, if using an external HDD is it possible to move data between it and the internal drive or the XB1 just sees it all as one drive?

You can view things in multiple ways.

-Everything (all as one drive)

-internal only

-usb/external only

And you can move content back and forth whenever you want, as much as you want. Even when you're actually playing the game you want to transfer.

 

*Just looked at it* Apparently, they made a change since the last update. All I see is

"Internal: 90.5 GB of 364.9 GB Games & Apps" 75.1% used"

 

"External 1: 846 GB Free of 1.8 TV Games & Apps" 53.5% used"

 

In my game library, it says: "57.1% Used. All storage: 955.1 GB free"

 

--since it says "External 1", it makes me wonder, could I connect multiple USBs (External 2?)? Hmm...

from the Xbox help page "Additionally, no more than three external drives can be connected to the console at the same time."

Also, support up to 16TB combined.