Microsoft has launched a brand new software program replace for its Xbox consoles. It isn’t the biggest-ever launch, nevertheless it packs an necessary change, particularly for recreation hoarders with huge arduous drives filled with all types of titles. With model 10.0.26100.3362, which is now accessible for obtain, your Xbox can acknowledge exterior arduous drives of large capacities.

Till the most recent replace, Xbox supported exterior arduous drives of as much as 16TB. Now, it could possibly acknowledge and browse knowledge from disks as massive as 20TB (like Toshiba’s N300 PRO 20TB Giant-Sized Enterprise NAS), 22TB, and much more. Simply remember that you’ll have to format the drive upon connecting to your Xbox, so prepare to maneuver a variety of knowledge if you have already got an enormous drive filled with stuff.

Additionally it is value noting that Xbox Collection X and Collection S can solely run backward-compatible video games from exterior USB-based drives (even when you use an SSD). Video games that have been made solely for the current-gen Xbox consoles solely work when saved on inside storage or enlargement playing cards, like one among Seagate’s Xbox playing cards.

In addition to massive exterior arduous drive help, the replace doesn’t embody the rest. Here’s what Microsoft stated within the launch notes:

OS model: 10.0.26100.3362 (xb_flt_2502ge.250212-2140)

Assist for bigger exterior arduous drives

Now you can join arduous drives of any measurement to your Xbox console. The arduous drive will create partitions at a most of 16TB per partition.

With this alteration to storage capability on the console, you may go away all of your video games put in on the identical gadget.

You may examine your Xbox software program model by heading to Profile & System > Settings > System > Console Data > OS model.

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