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LEAK: Xbox 360 To Support Gimped USB Mass Storage

5:08AM March 19, 2010 | Mark Wilson

According to what looks like legitimate Microsoft documentation, the Xbox 360 will soon support USB mass storage through an official System Update. There are a few caveats, however.

From the looks of it, the 360 will support pretty much any size of external hard drive (over 1GB), and this drive can be partitioned to be partially or fully dedicated to Xbox 360 files – including DLC, XBLA titles, games on demand and general game updates. Ooh, and even Avatar items!!!

However, Microsoft seems to have capped 360 partitions to a maximum of 16GB, no matter how large the drive you’re using may be. 16GB isn’t much, especially since even the original 360 launched with a measly 20GB drive. [Joystiq]

Comments

  • Trent

    March 19, 2010 at 9:18 AM

    So does this mean it will detect an NTFS drive for media purposes? It’s quite backwards at the moment how it will only read FAT drives.

    • Greg

      March 19, 2010 at 10:12 AM

      … and HFS.

    • andrew

      March 19, 2010 at 11:39 AM

      i mean really its bad enough the PS3 is gimped with FAT32 but i’d have to laught if even Microsoft can’t make their own products read NTFS drives.

  • Steve M.

    March 19, 2010 at 12:01 PM

    Sounds like this is aimed more at using USB sticks, not external HDDs. That’s fine with me to be honest, though capping does seem somewhat unnecessary.

  • josh

    March 19, 2010 at 1:20 PM

    COME ON I WANT TO USE MY 1TB DRIVE!!!

    sorry about the caps but it needed to be yelled

    • David Bunt

      March 19, 2010 at 2:27 PM

      I agree Josh, it did need to be yelled….damn it! At least release a competitively priced terabyte drive, or let a third party start releasing them!

  • David

    March 21, 2010 at 5:44 PM

    I wonder if it will detect multiple 16GB partitions on a single drive?

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