How To Add More Memory To Xbox 360

While the Xbox 360 has long supported external storage devices, it has only recently been able to add large capacity devices with up to 2 TB of storage. And that prompted me to upgrade my own 360 internal storage. Here’s what you need to know.First, you may not need the extra storage space. If you’ve been using your Xbox 360 for a while, like I said, you probably have a lot of junk on its internal (or bundled) storage. So take the time to get rid of things you never use, especially games, which can take up GBs of space. To do so, navigate to System, Storage and then the appropriate device (Hard drive on my 360, 250GB unit). Then select a product category (Example: Games and Apps) and see what’s in it. And then delete space-consuming games and other content that you can never access again. Read: how to add storage to xbox 360More memory? You need USB memory. The Xbox 360 has three USB 2.0 ports — sorry, they’re not USB 3.0 — with two on the front hidden under a small door and one on the back. You can plug USB storage — flash drives and/or hard drives — into any or all of these ports if you want. For my own upgrade, I bought a 1 TB WD external hard drive. (It was actually designed for Mac, but for some reason was cheaper — just $65 — than the Windows equivalent on topqa.info back then. You could format it with the Xbox 360 system software, because so don’t worry about the format.) Read more: how to finish a rough bathroom in the basementAccess the new storage device. To access the storage devices on your dashboard, navigate to System, Storage. You should see the new device in your list of storage devices.Configure device options. Press the (A) button on the controller to access the storage device’s options, including Rename, Format (which I need to use for Mac hard drives), Clear system cache, and Transfer content. dung.Read more: How to remove contacts with long nailsTransfer all content from one storage device to another. If you want to replace one storage device with another — for example, perhaps you’ve been using a 32 GB USB flash drive in the past and have upgraded to a larger hard drive like I have — you can can do so easily. Simply navigate to the Device Preferences screen for that device and select Cast content. You will be prompted to select the Destination device, such as a new hard drive or other storage device. Then select Get Started. (Or modify the list of what’s to be passed if you like.)Move games or other content to a new storage device. You can transfer a large game, video, or other content to another storage device. To do so, navigate to Settings, System, Storage and then the storage device that contains the game or other content. Then drill down into the exact content category (Games and Apps, Videos or whatever) and find the content you want to transfer. Select the item and then touch (Y) for Game Options, then select Move and select a target device. Alternatively, you can select the game and then select the game content to move.Save new content to a new storage device. Unfortunately, Xbox 360 doesn’t let you choose your default storage device—that’s obvious, I guess—but at least you can choose where to download new content at download time…but only if the set Your internal memory is also full. Otherwise, you’ll need to move the content once it’s downloaded. Hopefully this will change in the future.Read more: how to know someone has blocked you on viber | Top Q&A