** Xbox 360 System Update – USB Memory Support released! **

[sunlitsix]

i know it says we can install demo's there but can we install games to flash drives as well?

Yup I've just transfered afew arcade titles across and they all launch off of it no problems. Installing GOW2 to the it now.

 

[Musty Pie]

Yes, you could do this before with the Memory Units, this patch allows a cheap USB pen to do the same job.

Good, i dont agree with paying the silly price for a 512MB xbox memory unit when the USB pens are MUCH cheaper *rejoices*

 

[point decay]

When you say backed up, do you mean it allowed you to copy them across?

yeah, i have them in 2 places now.

 

[PiKe]

Good, i dont agree with paying the silly price for a 512MB xbox memory unit when the USB pens are MUCH cheaper *rejoices*

16GB for £19.99

 

[point decay]

Good, i dont agree with paying the silly price for a 512MB xbox memory unit when the USB pens are MUCH cheaper *rejoices*

seems like only certain flashe memory sticks will work however, I have 4 sticks, and the 360 tells me that 2 of these are not fully compatable. strange as the 2 that dont work are ready boost sticks from corsair (didnt think id have a problem with those)

 

[RichieM]

updating now (wow its a large update )

Now gotta decide wether I'd actually use a 16GB USB Stick (ASDA have some for £20 or Amazon have a Sandisk for £17.99) on the Xbox

I'm assuming once the stick is used on the xbox a PC cannot read it too?

 

[PiKe]

Will it allow me to use my 4gb USB stick that's formatted in FAT32 with stuff already on it, or does the Xbox have to faff around formatting it?

 

[sunlitsix]

No it will erase everything that is on it.

 

[point decay]

Will it allow me to use my 4gb USB stick that's formatted in FAT32 with stuff already on it, or does the Xbox have to faff around formatting it?

yeah, pretty sure it formatted mine, but i think you can set a partition size, if you choose a customized setup

 

[point decay]

updating now (wow its a large update )

Now gotta decide wether I'd actually use a 16GB USB Stick (ASDA have some for £20 or Amazon have a Sandisk for £17.99) on the Xbox

I'm assuming once the stick is used on the xbox a PC cannot read it too?

the sandisk sticks on amazon are very slow aparently, id hazard a guess that they wont work with this, but you never know


yeah, couldnt see any files on it when i popped it in the laptop.

 

[BlizzardX]

Apparently once partitioned, the remaining space can be read and written to in windows but the actual 360 stuff is either hidden or encrypted.

 

[nikebee]

So can you install games (etc) to the USB drives after this update?

 

[point decay]

So can you install games (etc) to the USB drives after this update?

yeah

 

[Neolink]

Is it only for USB sticks? I had hoped to be able to attach my 2TB external HDD to it

 

[PiKe]

The official Xbox one will be a Sandisk Micro Skin 8GB.

 

[point decay]

Is it only for USB sticks? I had hoped to be able to attach my 2TB external HDD to it

you could, but only 16gb will be usable IIRC

 

[Nymins]

Be interesting to see the performance of running an installed game of a USB stick. Would it be slower than the hard drive and/or DVD drive?

 

[PiKe]

Be interesting to see the performance of running an installed game of a USB stick. Would it be slower than the hard drive and/or DVD drive?

USB is limited to about 30MB/s so I don't know how that compares to the Hard Drive.

 

[Neolink]

Curious too, I am sure some benchmarks will pop up within a few days

 

[BlizzardX]

Can someone try moving some Forza 3 stuff like setups, liveries etc from the HDD to a pen drive if they have the game?