{"id":518488,"date":"2010-04-06T11:48:29","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"tag:betanews.com,2007:article-1270568909"},"modified":"2010-04-06T11:48:29","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T15:48:29","slug":"xbox-360-system-update-finally-adds-usb-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/518488","title":{"rendered":"Xbox 360 system update finally adds USB storage"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Tim Conneally<\/a>, Betanews<\/a><\/p>\n

As expected, Microsoft has pushed out a mandatory update to the Xbox 360 today, which adds support for USB storage devices, expanding the memory capacity of the five-year old video game console.<\/p>\n

The update will ostensibly allow any FAT32-formatted USB storage device between 1GB-16GB in size to be used to save profiles, game saves, and downloadable content. There are, however, a number of caveats, which mean users can’t just plug anything in and have it work.<\/p>\n

When the update was first announced, Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb said “Since performance on flash based USB storage is usually better, I highly<\/u><\/i> recommend using flash based instead of spinning media like a hard drive\u2026it’s just going to give you a MUCH<\/u><\/i> better experience.”<\/p>\n

Microsoft has minimum performance recommendations for USB storage devices, and if the one you plug in does not meet them, you will be warned<\/a>. So far, it looks like Microsoft is using this update to highlight the partnership with SanDisk on the branded Xbox 360 USB memory stick<\/a>, which comes pre-configured with the software update on board, and includes a one month Gold subscription to Xbox Live.<\/p>\n

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By Tim Conneally, Betanews As expected, Microsoft has pushed out a mandatory update to the Xbox 360 today, which adds support for USB storage devices, expanding the memory capacity of the five-year old video game console. The update will ostensibly allow any FAT32-formatted USB storage device between 1GB-16GB in size to be used to save […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6429,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-518488","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518488","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6429"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=518488"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/518488\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=518488"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=518488"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=518488"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}