Xbox One External HDD support limited to 16TB

The June Xbox One system update will include the ability to utilize external storage devices. A Microsoft spokesperson has confirmed to videogamer.com that the upper limit for external storage support is 16TB.

[christocolus]

Damn..that's huge.

Thumbs up to the update team,those guys are definitly doing a great job.

[Bigpappy]

16TB=infinite to me.

[zeuanimals]

Bioshockingly Infinite.

[Bathyj]

Hoho, you are such Dewitt

[ThanatosDMC]

I bet a movie enthusiast can fill up 16tb real fast with their porn collection... errr... movie collection.

[alexkoepp]

More than enough for gaming needs. Not so much HD video content, but 16TB will be more than enough for 99% of the population, should last the entire generation.

With support for 2 drives, at 8TB apiece? Those don't even exist yet and won't for a good long while.

Bummer they have to be USB 3.0, I got an old 2.0 4TB I got a few years back I paid $380 for, be nice if I could use that.

500GB for X1/PS4 was a foolish decision. I'm sitting at 75% usage with 11 games on my X1 already. Considering there are 44 games available right now, you certainly couldn't have them all installed on your system, and we are only 6 months in. The systems should have had minimum 1TB, but 2TB would probably be optimal.

"Kinda working out to 40 games per terabyte"
I'd estimate 50GB a game, so I'd half that figure to be on the safe side.

[FayZ_]

my porn collection disagrees :/

[Malphite]

I remember people saying the same thing about 20GB. In a couple of years 16TB won't be that much anymore. It'll probably still be more than enough for the lifespan of the X1 though.

[choujij]

I have 18 TB in my PC. 6 3TB Barracudas (4 in RAID0 and 2 in Windows RAID).

Here's a pic: http://s13.postimg.org/yonm...

I thought it was a lot when I built my PC last year, but I'm only left with 4.5TB of useable space between the 2 volumes. And that's because I already offloaded about 2 TB to an external drive.

[BallsEye]

That's what I've said when I got my 20 MB's for Atari back in the day...probably for vast majority over here it's ancient history.

[DLConspiracy]

Assuming that most games are between 14gb and 50gbs.. Let's just say each game is 50gbs. 16TB of room = 16,000Gbs

16,000 / 50gbs = 320 games.

That's a lot of games!!! So you can fit up to 500 if there are smaller files.. Man.. Xbox is doing great stuff.

[killzone619]

will the ps4 support external HD? just curious considering it has USB 3.0 ports

[jebabcock]

The title is worded as if that is a bad thing... Nothing is future proof but anyone complaining about 17tb for a console needs help...

[DaGamingKing]

Wow! Thats incredible. But, I'll add this.
When 360 launched the best model was 20GB. The biggest now is 320GB. Or, 16 times the original size. Now, my 320GB drive is filled.

The X1 came with a 0.5 TB drive, which is solid, however a 16TB drive would represent 32 times as much storage. I fully expect that this should cover the next generation, especially if games take between 5Gb and 50gb in instal size, plus updates, DLC etc.

Great move, and hopefully this suffices over next 5-7 years.

[n4rc]

I only have a network drive at home so I'll need a new external for my x1.. Started thinking about storage..

I have ten games in under 250gb (its at 50% but os takes room etc)

Kinda working out to 40 games per terabyte.. Realized that and stopped looking at 4tb drives.. People need to think about how many games they actually buy... 16.5tb is insane and way more then 99.9% of people would need..

[rainslacker]

Early last gen games didn't take up as much space on the hard drive either. As the gen progressed they began using more of the hard drive for quicker access. Then of course digital became a bigger thing.

I do have a feeling by the end of this gen, you'd be lucky to be able to find a 1TB drive, much like you have to hunt down anything that's less than 40GB nowadays.

[AngelicIceDiamond]

Realistically I'm only gonna need 8. And that will last forever for me.

EDIT: Somewhat offtopic what do you guys think of this vid?

Can this happen in the future updates? http://youtu.be/GLEEnoEzuH4

[dasbeer88]

What people are forgetting to realize that while next generation consoles are coming, the next gen games are also getting bigger and bigger. Also don't forget lazy developers bring day-one patches which, depending how broken the game is, can be incredibly enormous.
So I wouldn't be surprised if 1 TB is going to limit less than 20 next-gen games.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

Man, still with the "lazy" developers?

[n4rc]

You are right.. Games probably will get larger..

But most updates rewrite data, not simply add to it.. A 2gb update may only add 500mb to the total size

[Nine_Thousaaandd]

Well, nice update for Xbox users. Congrats to Microsoft for making it happen.

I was curious to see how much a 16TB HDD would cost, WOW...a whopping $1000.00-$10,000.00! And I've seen them priced up to $20,000.00

I think it's safe to say, that most if not all Xbox users will be using on average 1TB to 8TB units. 8TB cost around $650 or more...but nonetheless...a great update for Xbone.

[Cobberwebb]

You can have TWO external HHDs with the update. So two 8GB HDDs not one 16GB.

[vega275]

I ordered 2 5tb hard drives from Amazon last night. So I have 10.5TB right there which should hold me for a long time

Edit: also love the fact you can take it to your friends house with it. Just plug and play. Nice

[GameSpawn]

@Nine_Thousaaandd

Some of the stupidly expensive 16TB storage solutions you may have found were NAS'es. NAS enclosures have proprietary software that you are shelling serious money for. Some are made from numerous SSDs combined together (VERY EXPENSIVE). Also some have mirroring meaning you actually have much more than 16TB (or whatever the stated capacity) of combined space between drives, but some of the drives are used for duplication (mirror) and/or as "hot spares" in the event of drive failures.

RAID 6 is one of the most resilient RAID types (especially with mirroring), but because of the largest minimum drive requirement due to the double parity it is also the most expensive.

The irony of RAID is that one of its acronyms (not a fully correct one, especially now) is "Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks". A more correct acronym is "Redundant Array of Independent Disks".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

Other factors add to external drive price (beyond those in NAS'es) such as connectivity options -- Thunderbolt being the most expensive connectivity option, especially when combined with eSATA, USB3.0, and Firewire 800 simultaneously. Those planning on getting drives for the XBO can obviously focus on USB3.0 only drives to keep the price down.

[rainslacker]

Could get an external USB raid enclosure and get several cheaper drives.

Probably better to just scale as needed though unless you are really into techie cool stuff that none of your friends will care about.

[MASTER_RAIDEN]

16TB?

how am i supposed to run my spaceship now?

[parentoftheyear]

Wow, This is an Amazing feature.

[Vystrel]

I guess if not being able to upgrade your internal hard drive and allowing you to use external hard drives like you should always be able to is a "feature" then sure

[parentoftheyear]

@vvstrel. I'm a playstation fan. I own a ps4. Won't own an Xbox for a while, I do know I can't purchase a 16tb 2.5" internal hard drive for my ps4. So ya this is very cool.

[Visiblemarc]

Says you, meanwhile I have a pile of 17 Terabyte hard drives rotting in the corner. ;)

[Pogmathoin]

Sckipt, well be a good Sony fanboy and complain about all the X1 updates, and you can call it evens...... Game over.....

[amazinglover]

Me too glad to have an update here and their then one big one every six months or so. I do believe the updates will start to be spread out a little more around November since that when the console will be what it should have been at launch feature wise at least. Am happy though finally now I can put my 2TB drive I bought just for this to use.

[GamingAngelGabriel]

If you ever need more than that, you can probably afford a second Xbox.

[christocolus]

Lol.Very true

[cl1983]

Being that one could hook up to two devices at a time, if you would run out of space you could just remove one and add another and still be set to go.

[4Sh0w]

Hell yeah, that's sweet, I'm going to have a huge digital collection of games on 1- 16TB HDD (eventually). lol, remember early last gen when we thought 20GB were alot? Micro has done a great job here in fixing any storage concerns, very convenient also.

-From Videogamer.com:

"This is also a great way to take your content to a friend's house and get straight into a game directly from an external drive. You'll need to sign in to Xbox Live if you've purchased your content digitally or insert a disc to verify your game ownership when you take your content on the road. The great benefit here is there's no need to wait to re-download your game and all the DLC. With external storage support in June, you can also choose to copy full games and all of the associated content in one easy step."

I don't always agree with some of their decisions but I do commend their aggressiveness and focus to improve their platform.

[MazzingerZ]

Isn't that a little against the whole cloud concept? Baring HDD is not really "modern" but I agree, 16TB is more than enough and I guess it supports any device which is really nice!

[MarkusMcNugen]

"lol, remember early last gen when we thought 20GB were alot?"

Cant say I do. Back in 2005, I had 1.5TB of HDD space in my PC and it wasn't nearly enough. 20GB was pathetic even back then. Hence all the mods people were doing to use their own HDDs.

[MorePowerOfGreen]

16,884 gigs? Same HDD's can be used on Xbox Three in 2030 with all the games from all 3 consoles

(number based on 16TB+internal HDD)

[JasonKCK]

I don't even use that much for my PC, and I own a lot of games. I have almost 5tb used. 16tb is just, damn.

[rainslacker]

Hmmm...when I was into downloading software illegally I could have easily filled up that much.

I don't do that anymore though, and I haven't even filled up a 1TB drive on my PS3 yet despite downloading everything PS+ has offered since it's inception, and a bunch of PS1 RPG's I brought.

PS4 and X1 both install the whole game on the HD now from what I understand, so I'm sure it'll fill up faster.

[Gozer]

So its limited to two 8TB external drives? I don't think I would ever need that much space personally. Maybe one 8TB.

[gameon1985]

Do they even make HDD that big?

[incendy35]

If you RAID them haha

[lets_go_gunners]

I just did a Google search, the biggest hard drive ever is apparently 120 petabytes. Whatever that is...

[Calvin_ISA]

A Petabyte is 1024TB. :)

That's a lot of storage.

[kneon]

I think the largest announced drive is 6tb right now, though I don't know if it's shipping yet.

But you can get enclosures that hold multiple hard drives that make it appear as one large drive to the os. You can also get better performance using striping across the drives.

[MarkusMcNugen]

@kneon

True, but I highly doubt the Xbox One will allow Raid 0 on USB 3.0 drives. Perhaps if the enclosure you have in mind has a built in controller.

[rainslacker]

You could also just expand them with smaller drives. So buy a 1 or 2TB drive now, then another one in a couple years, then another down the line, then just swap them out as needed.

[gameon1985]

Now that,s insane, why would they limit you to such small storage?/s

[DeathOfTheFanBoy]

Even with the "/s" people fail to pick up on it.

[corvusmd]

Earlier on twitter Major Nelson said you could have two plugged in at the same time...so is that 16tb each or total? Either way, that is way more than you need right now, and if it fills up...oh well...swap it.

[TheBrit]

16 TB total between the two drives.

[nigelp520]

Microsoft keeps on winning

[Utalkin2me]

Just curious, exactly what is MS winning? And not only that you said they keep on winning. Come in last place every game generation. But keep winning, roflamo.

[marlinfan10]

@utalk

lol go enjoy your system man, no need to come start arguments. clearly you don't like the xbox so why bother coming to xbox articles?

[christocolus]

@utalkin2me

Why does his statement upset you so?he never mentioned hardware sales but you brought that in all by yourself. Chill out,if you don't like the xbox,comments from xbox fans or these type of articles then why bother coming around?

[insomnium2]

@christ

Why does it upset? Maybe because the statement is false in every possible way outside fanboy thinking? Could that be it?

This place has been so full of people spewing false information for years it gets frustrating from time to time. Even the smallest of false comments irritates sometimes.

Clearly nigel's comment was meant in that Charlie Sheen "winning"-mentality but still the way he said it can be taken as a jab against competition in which case the statement is false. Had Nigel only said "winning" and nothing more we wouldn't have this debacle now would we?

[mrpsychoticstalker]

U are trying too hard bro. MS is winning back it's fans.

[Darkstares]

insomnium2, you just commented in another topic that the X360 stopped getting games after 2 years. So is there a reason why you think you're opinion is valid on who is and isn't a fanboy?

So stop trying to take what is essentially a positive topic about the XBOX One and make it about you and your fight against those who like the system and your own personal issues with the company.

Great update, years people have been hounding Microsoft to be able to have an external hard drive and one that isn't a proprietary based with a huge mark up like we've seen on the XBOX 360 and we still see for memory cards on the Playstation Vita. It will also host 2 external drives simultaneously so you could have 8+8 terabyte drives.

[nigelp520]

-Bringing back Killer Instinct
-Changing their policies for the better
-Getting rid of Don Mattrick
-Constent updates

[insomnium2]

All of those are good moves to promote sales for their product yes. It doesn't change the fact that they want gaming to be VERY restricted, controlled, milked and abused (from a gamers pov ofc). The initial reveal ruined their chance of ever winning me over most likely.

[JeffGUNZ]

@ Insomnium2

What? How are they restricted, controlled and milked? Give me a break, especially with "milked". How many GT or God of Wars, or Metal Gear Solids have we seen on the PS? Are we not excited for Uncharted 4 anymore because that tends to be "milked"? Popular franchises are not milked when it comes to exclusives. They are popular and in high demand, of course studios will continue the franchise. COD is a milked franchise. They made COD4MW and attempted to rinse and repeat and ultimately have ruined COD for many old school COD fans. MS doesn't Milk anything. If you think MS will stop with Halo and Gears, their 2 monsters and face of the Xbox division, well then, you really don't know how business works.

Also, their initial reveal should not have ruined anything. Sure, they could have explained it better, but it had a LOT of awesome features they were going to do but were overshadowed by people who have internet, complaining on websites, about having their consoles always connected. It was laughable. Hate to break it to people, but consoles target audience are not countries with under developed infrastructures and third world countries.

[insomnium2]

@jeff

How are they restricting the gamers? They wanted DRM and used sale fee on games for example. Also everything behind a paywall.

How they controll gamers? Participating retailers only for example. You should watch angry joe's rants about this.

How are they milking? I say that since it's only the same 3 franchises MS "invests" in that are safe bets every time. Where are the big budget exclusive new ips? Also Halo ODST and Halo Wars is something that defines milking to me.
GT games have been releasing in a timespan of 2 decades. Kinda same with MGS. GOW is milking imo. However in addition to all those games there are a douzen new ips on 7th gen alone that were born on PS3. Uncharted, Infamous, Resistance and Motorstorm for example. MS only has Geow as a new ip but Forza, Halo and Fable were all on the original xbox.

You can't explain 24 hour check in or else your console is a dud in any acceptable way. You seem to be one of those entitled pricks who think that the world revolves around your needs and wants. The x360 had about 50 million offline gamers. It's clearly the master plan to ignore them and put a DRM into Xbone. That shows how MS really knows how business works right?

[mochachino]

Ignorance is bliss i s'pose.

Xone isn't winning at all at the moment, not even close.

[Kayant]

Sounds like it's using NTFS with 4k cluster size(Want even that is loool :p) http://support.microsoft.co...

That's a mega tonne of storage

[DarXyde]

"Limited"

Er....right.

[AceBlazer13]

When I saw the word and then the number I was thinking it got used wrong here.

Like saying you limited to do what you want.

[Majin-vegeta]

Im jelly of you guys,Hopefully Sony allows PS4 users to use External HDD also.

So i can have all mi DLC in one and all my downloaded games on another.

[HugoDrax]

"So i can have all mi DLC in one and all my downloaded games on another."

Interesting! that's not a bad idea I suppose

[AngelicIceDiamond]

@Majin Yeah I think Sony will announce something regarding external soon.

Hopefully at E3 when they announce future updates coming to PS4.

[gameon1985]

Then what will you use the internal HDD for?

[Majin-vegeta]

For my apps and mumbo jumbo.

[XiSasukeUchiha]

Same Sony please raise the cap to 16TB as well!

[DollMytee]

Haha, knowing the way things have gone Sony will announce it and say 17TB max just to spit in Microsofts face haha.

[XStation]

http://www.polygon.com/2013...

[rainslacker]

lol. Same here. Not sure when I'll need that much space but I certainly want it.:)

[SuperBlunt]

"Limited" to 16 tb aka 16,000 gigs lol okay

[Cobberwebb]

16384GB to be precise.

[MarkusMcNugen]

16,384 GiB to be precise.

16,777,216 MiB to be more precise.

I dont like it, but there is a very specific reason why MB, GB, and TB are not suppose to be used to represent 2 to a certain power. They actually are calculated using 10 to a certain power. Kilo, Mega, Tera, Peta, etc... are all derived from the metric system which is why they all represent 1000 of the previous unit. They are base ten math; whereas Mebi, Gibi, Tebi, and Pebi are base 2 since computers only read binary.

For example:
1 tebibyte = 2^40 bytes = 1024 GiB
1 terabyte = 10^12 bytes = 1000GB

[Bonkerz]

16TB... Might as well just say unlimited lol. Nice job MS!

[DJustinUNCHAIND]

Only 16,000 GIGS?

That's it?

[MarkusMcNugen]

I see what you did there ;)

[F4sterTh4nFTL]

The words Limited & 16Tb just don't go together.

[Tedakin]

NOT ENOUGH! Yeah, limited. You know someone will have more than 16tb of crap and will complain. Someone always does.

[Illusive_Man]

If the games are 50 GB that is at least 320 titles. 16TB is insane.

[Tedakin]

NOT ENOUGH!

[mhunterjr]

Lol, even the guy who complains could solve that issue by having another HDD, that he swaps in as needed.

[Wikkid666]

No need to swap. You can have 2 plugged in.

[Illusive_Man]

Xbox Won.

[DigitalRaptor]

.

[Aussiebeachbabe]

16 Tb. I will fill this in 1 week.lol.Not enough ha ha ha

[Dread]

Nice.

[Demoa]

mother of god that's already alot

[Benchm4rk]

That awesome. Part of me still wishes we could upgrade the internal hard drive too though.

[nigelp520]

Call of Duty Advanced Warfare Install Data will be 250gb

[LightningMokey]

Only 16 TB? PRE-ORDER CANCELED! :D

[koliosis]

Holy cow

[BLKxSEPTEMBER]

Excellent...*in Mr Burns voice*

[Aussiebeachbabe]

Take me awhile to fill that. Just kidding earlier.

[gamertk421]

That's what he said.

[Codewow]

Now all I need is google fiber so my games only take 5 minutes to download the 50gigs rather than 5 hours.

[Benchm4rk]

I hear ya mate. Im sick of my third world internet speed

[TimeSkipLuffy]

That is one feature I want for my PS4 real bad. I know I can switch the HD internally but to simply plugin an external USB 3.0 drive is awesome!

With PS3 I already got so many digital games I have bought 2 additional HDD cages and switch the cages when needed.

But I think of having an external drive for music, video clips, etc.

Hope Sony will copy this and support their fanbase with the same attention as MS doing lately!

[Gamer666]

I will just buy USB powered pocket drives as necessary and economically feasible. Right now the 2 TB drives seem to be the sweet spot.

I'm not so concerned about a single drive holding everything. Much more important to be able to buy drives as I want and plug and unplug them as required. USB will make it easy to swap drives even when the console is on. Unlike 360, where you had to remove the drive from the internal SATA harness.

Nice job on this update MS.

[Jamaicangmr]

Thats a damn good limit i mean it is a videogame console.

[MegaRay]

No! Its multimedia machine that play videogames.
Some will be offended, but I found that advantage rather than disadvantage...

[OC_MurphysLaw]

LOL. .. 16? Mother of God ... I was thinking 4GB was a lot!

[Major_Glitch]

16 TB?! Damn that's a lot. I'd be happy with half that. Good job MS.

[Slick81]

Will it allow movies and music files to be transferred ?

[Max-Zorin]

Outstanding!

[Mrtemper]

+ 1 for MS, that's massive.....

[Ipunchbabiesforfun]

Good god that's HUGE! What a nice addition! Microsoft is dumb though. They come out with Xbox One tell us all to F off and we have no control over anything in the system from DRM,HDD,Online etc. and than now it's just a total do over for them.

I mean, it's good they're doing it. But, man how they could be so short sighted and ignorant beforehand!?

[JasonKCK]

Since when is a "do over" a crime in gaming? You get a "do over" in every game you play. Go ahead, try and imagine a game.

[kingPoS]

Hmm... I like the idea. It's what I do with my pc, OS & most apps on the main, most of the media & misc on external USB.

Gateway MT6706 2008

[DJ]

"Limited". Sure.

[Hozi]

only question now is how much for 16tb hdd for xbox one?

[Mithan]

Let me guess, Sony will respond that theirs can do 17TB within the next 24 hours.

[KillerByte23]

32TB with 2 external HDD's

[alti]

I've only used 500GB of the 2TB my computer has. So this is good news, but it's like saying I can have all the food in a buffet lol. Like, no shit, but it's not really useful up to a point.

[Ulf]

Umm.. yeah. Not really a problem.

[PrinceOfAllSaiyans]

Damn 16tb ? I honestly thought 2tb was the highest there was. I personally think I'll get by with a 2tb for this whole gen because I'm 100% against digital and my XB1 will mostly only be used for exclusives. Sony needs to announce external HD support for PS4.

[No_Limit]

Ahhh...You do know that physical disc do require you to download the entire game into the HDD on both XB1 and PS4, right? So it makes no difference if you buy digital or retail as you will need to lots of space on your HDD to fit all these games in. And for the record, no one cares what you buy or don't buy on the XB1 or PS4.

[mhunterjr]

For me, this confirms my sentiment that external HDD > swappable internal HDD.
I much prefer adding to my existing 500GB than replacing the 500GB HDD that I paid for. Not only that, but swapping internal drives would mean having to transfer data from on HDD to another... And there really isn't an elegant solution for that.

[Imalwaysright]

That must be expensive!

[sgtGanGreen]

There goes my 20T HDD :( So sad, cry cry

[Ninjamonkey82]

That's an amazing amount off storage

[TRS_Gear]

"Limited to 16 TB"?
I would hardly consider the word 'Limited' do be appropriate for this announcement. More like 'XBOX One external HDD support expanded up to 16TB'.

[JMyers]

This is great news. I can't see anyone running out of Space!

[user9597082]

Great news but why does the article title have such a negative sound to it?
"Limited to 16tb"?
Why not "it goes all the way up to 16tb!"?

[veegeeeffex]

Somehow the use of the word "limited" doesn't seem to fit here.

[pwnsause_returns]

one thing i liking what Microsoft is doing right now, the rate of updates that are increasing the functionality of the system on a monthly to monthly basis. props to Microsoft there.

[Flames76]

Anyone with a life will never use this much space.So this is more than enough.For those of you pc players that says its not enough for games you need to get out of your parents house find a girlfriend and get a life.

[pwnsause_returns]

with games as big as 50gb having to install onto a hard drive, i think its best to be on the safe side...

[kewlkat007]

I mean, come on now, really?

Can I play movie comes from there? When the plex app is out?

[saber00005]

Hmm... So it's a big box, powered by a box, that has a camera box and an external hardrive box.. I guess that's an xbox...

[mrbojingles]

Imagine one day, 10 years from now we'll all be complaining that Nintendo/Sony/MS should have shipped their consoles with more than 16TB HDDs because 8K resolution games are so huge lol.

[blakstarz]

Shit that is enough for me, my kids and my kid's unborn kids..

[its_JEFF]

16TB Damn! Do they even sell at 16TB HDD? The funny thing is in 5 yrs 16TB won't seem like a lot, crazy how fast tech moves.

[thexmanone]

you can use two 8TB Drives

[optimus]

This is excellent news to say the least. I'm not in the habit of downloading movies so I would figure that 90% of that storage would be used for games with me. considering i managed to survive with 20g of storage on my 360 for 2 yrs and later settled with 120g ($40 on ebay) into 2014 i'd say 16t will be more than enough for me...I would like to see support for solid state drives even if it means having their own 1tb solid state drive.

on a sidenote- I'm anticipating that Microsoft will have some major news to showcase at e3 seeing as how they have been releasing a lot of positive information for the x1 in the last few weeks that would be worthy of e3 bombshell reveals....i'm still holding out in buying into the next generation on any side until well after e3.

[rataranian]

...And here I thought my whole porn collection was gonna fit on there. PPPFFFFFFTTT!! ;P

[DoggyBiscuit]

16 tb is more than enough

[Iamnemesis4880]

That is great

[Milesprowers]

Xbox One is a FAT Machine, over twice as big as a PS4 now you wanna ad more fat to it?? The PS4 as a built in upgradable hdd

[Immorals]

Always preferred external. Good for film nights, and will be useful for save games (cloud transfer on skyrim took forever)

[Dirkster_Dude]

The PS4 requires an internal hard drive no larger than 2.5 inches thick. As of about 6 months ago there was only 1 company that made a 2TB 2.5 inch hard drive and you can be sure it is far more expensive than the XB1 solution. I haven't been able to confirm it, but I suspect the max hard drive size on a PS4 will be limited by whatever is in the filesystem used from FreeBSD 9.0 (version of UNIX developed by U.C. Berkley), which is what the PS4 operating and file system is based on

[Rockyrob]

He actual article is:
"Xbox One June 2014 update includes external storage, OneGuide, real friend names and more"

The n4g.com tittle is:
"Xbox One External HDD support limited to 16TB"

So how did that change from a positive to a negative?

[XxGOWxX]

Yeh very typical of this site. Cant just have positive unbiased news. It has to be turned into a negative and put down for no reason.

[Dirkster_Dude]

Any version of Windows after Vista should also be able to support up to 16TB provided the operating system and computer is 64-bit and the BIOS has the necessary support. If you have the necessary BIOS support, but still run a 32-bit version of Windows you can use a drive larger than 2TB, but the largest volume or formatted size of the partition is limited to 2TB or smaller. The USB 3.0 limitation is probably an artificial limitation by Microsoft to make sure data can be transferred quickly enough without the support calls saying "My XB1 is not allowing my external drive to work right!". USB 2.0 would probably be fine for videos and music, but compressed textures may be too much.

[pop-voxuli]

Who in the blue hell has 16tb of storage???

[XxGOWxX]

This feature combined with NAS/media streaming support (when it comes out) should cover most if not everyone's needs.

The fact you can swap out drives and take drives to your friends place and play off that drive is an awesome feature.