Xbox Beta Tests Support For Massive Amounts Of External Storage

Xbox has a caller beta package update rolling retired coming for Insiders successful nan Alpha Skip-Ahead ringing that enables Series X and S systems to support overmuch larger outer difficult disks. Previously, nan Xbox could only support up to 16TB of abstraction connected a azygous USB-connected drive.

With nan caller update, Xbox systems tin now partition difficult disks larger than 16TB into segments to usage nan afloat beingness retention space. A azygous 24TB difficult disk tin now beryllium formatted into aggregate partitions (the largest still being 16TB) truthful you tin archive overmuch games, apps, and media than ever — if that’s point you’ve wanted to do.

However, if you personification already been utilizing a difficult disk greater than 16TB pinch Xbox, nan institution says you’ll petition to erase it first to return afloat advantage:

Drives greater than 16TB that personification already been formatted will beryllium unaffected by this alteration and would petition to beryllium reformatted to return advantage of nan updated support for larger drives.

Although you still can’t play existent procreation games consecutive disconnected an outer drive, it tin beryllium useful to backmost up each of your installs anyway, aliases games made for older systems. You won’t petition to redownload afloat titles specified arsenic nan 300GB-plus Call of Duty: Black Ops 6 utilizing an nett narration erstwhile you consciousness for illustration playing it again aft a hiatus, unless they petition an equally-sizable update.

Xbox is too releasing an update that enables caller web worth indicators for unreality gaming sessions to show you if your narration is slow and affecting your gameplay. They will look successful reddish bubbles connected nan precocious correct broadside of nan screen, telling you what is happening, specified arsenic packet nonaccomplishment aliases accrued ping, which tin thief you troubleshoot your connection.