Exterior exhausting drives over 16TB in dimension will quickly be supported by Xbox consoles, Microsoft has introduced.
The addition of help for greater exterior USB storage has been confirmed for Xbox Insiders, as a part of a system software program replace rolling out now to public testers within the Alpha Skip-Forward ring. As ever, this new characteristic will slowly filter out to bigger testing teams earlier than its widespread public launch, sometimes over the subsequent couple of weeks.
“We’re enabling help for exterior USB drives bigger than 16TB, so that you will be certain your favourite video games are all the time able to play!” Microsoft wrote in a weblog publish.
“Newly formatted drives which might be bigger than 16TB shall be formatted with a number of partitions to utilise all obtainable house for video games and apps. These will seem as a number of gadgets within the storage gadgets checklist.”
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Intriguingly, Microsoft doesn’t checklist a brand new higher restrict for storage gadgets – suggesting that with the partition methodology in place, there is no such thing as a higher restrict anymore. How large a tough drive are you able to join?!
“Drives better than 16TB which have already been formatted shall be unaffected by this alteration and would should be reformatted to benefit from the up to date help for bigger drives,” Microsoft concluded.
For extra on what’s subsequent from Microsoft, you’ll want to be part of us tomorrow, Thursday twenty second January, for dwell protection of the Xbox Developer Direct, starting at 6pm UK time. We’re anticipating to see extra of Doom: The Darkish Ages, Clair Obscur: Expedition 33, South of Midnight and a few different surprises.
