Can you use a PC SSD as a xbox 360 hard drive?

BenGerman8876 · January 28, 2019

I know that the Xbox 360 slim has a 2.5" drive bay in the back that can be used for upgrading from 4GB. Can I buy a 1TB SSD and use it with the drive bay? I know that you can use the SSD as a flash drive/

Crunchy Dragon · January 28, 2019

As long as the Xbox 360 uses the standard SATA interface, I don't see why not.

CharminUltraStrong · January 28, 2019

10 minutes ago, BenGerman8876 said:

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It will not work. Microsoft uses a proprietary (FATX) in their drive partitions that act as gatekeepers for anyone trying to install their own cheap HDD's/SSD's(From what I remember only certain Western Digital drives work, otherwise you'll be hard pressed to find a drive that can behave properly w/FATX). You could only use the SSD/HDD externally over USB but not internally via SATA. The issue with using it externally is that you can NOT save games to the SSD/HDD and only game saves/misc. files could be placed on the ext. drive. Furthermore, Xbox 360's don't recognize ANY internal drives ABOVE 1TB so unless you mod your console or drive, you can't use a 1TB SSD internally. Though, again, like @Crunchy Dragon says the SATA interface is standard so if you can figure out which WD model drives work with FATX then you could get it going in the 2.5 bay but as far as your SSD it will most certainly not work.