Xbox is launching a brand new beta software program replace to extend its exterior storage restrict. Microsoft’s gaming platform has beginning rolling out the take a look at for Insiders as a part of the Alpha Skip-Forward ring which is able to enable the Collection X and S to assist bigger exterior exhausting drives.
Though beforehand assist was solely accessible for as much as 16TB of area on a single USB-connected drive, the brand new up to date will enable consoles to partition bigger exhausting disks into segments to profit from the total bodily space for storing.
In a publish on the Xbox Help web site, the workforce stated: “We’re enabling assist for exterior USB drives bigger than 16TB, so that you may be positive your favourite video games are all the time able to play!
“Newly formatted drives which might be bigger than 16TB will probably be formatted with a number of partitions to make the most of all accessible area for video games and apps.
“These will seem as a number of gadgets within the storage gadgets listing.”
Nevertheless, any “drives larger than 16TB which have already been formatted will probably be unaffected by this variation”, which suggests they’ll must be reformatted make use of the “up to date assist for bigger drives”.
Present technology video games nonetheless can’t be performed instantly from an exterior drive, however the change will give players more room to retailer older video games while not having to redownload them for subsequent replays.