USB memory

[Palerider_GB]

I know you can use USB memory sticks but I'm wondering if something like THIS would be compatible with the XboX360?

[Tom909]

Possibly. I have two external drives, both Iomega ones, one is 250gb and the other 1tb. The 250gb one works in that you can section off and format up to 16gb for use with the 360 but it then comes up with the message 'the USB flash drive is rated below the recommended speed, you might experience reduced game performance and quality'.
The 1tb one won't even register as a USB device.

I've used the 250gb one to play music and video through the 360 that's already on there and it's fine and also to transfer data onto my new official 360 HDD (just by transferring it onto the flash drive then back onto the new HDD) which it also did fine but wouldn't want to use it for storing stuff I'm going to be playing directly from it.

This: http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-360/accessories/usb-flash-drive explains things pretty well.

[Palerider_GB]

Possibly. I have two external drives, both Iomega ones, one is 250gb and the other 1tb. The 250gb one works in that you can section off and format up to 16gb for use with the 360 but it then comes up with the message 'the USB flash drive is rated below the recommended speed, you might experience reduced game performance and quality'.
The 1tb one won't even register as a USB device.

I've used the 250gb one to play music and video through the 360 that's already on there and it's fine and also to transfer data onto my new official 360 HDD (just by transferring it onto the flash drive then back onto the new HDD) which it also did fine but wouldn't want to use it for storing stuff I'm going to be playing directly from it.

This: http://support.xbox.com/en-GB/xbox-360/accessories/usb-flash-drive explains things pretty well.

I'll take that as a "no" then... Cheers for the info.

[Johnny Shoulder]

Yeah only certain USB sticks are compatible for use on the 360 for saves n shit and there is a limit of 16gb max. Its to stop people getting cheaper external drives than the official M$ ones if you want loads of HDD space. Bastards.

[Ginga]

I may be wrong, but I think it's only ones that are setup as FAT file system (exFAT, i think. Not entriely sure) as opposed to NTFS, whcih most modern day things are nowadays.

You can easily convert NTFS to FAT when it's plugged into a PC though, wether that would make it work on the 360 or not I dunno, but it doesn't hurt to try.

[Johnny Shoulder]

Yeah that should work Ginga.

You may have lost most people tho!

And you still be limited by 16gb.

[Tom909]

I may be wrong, but I think it's only ones that are setup as FAT file system (exFAT, i think. Not entriely sure) as opposed to NTFS, whcih most modern day things are nowadays.

You can easily convert NTFS to FAT when it's plugged into a PC though, wether that would make it work on the 360 or not I dunno, but it doesn't hurt to try.

The 360 will format it to FAT Ging but it's the speed they run at that matters. After mine was formatted it was still supposedly too slow and 'may cause problems'. The only ones which definatley work are Sandisk.

[Ginga]

I may be wrong, but I think it's only ones that are setup as FAT file system (exFAT, i think. Not entriely sure) as opposed to NTFS, whcih most modern day things are nowadays.

You can easily convert NTFS to FAT when it's plugged into a PC though, wether that would make it work on the 360 or not I dunno, but it doesn't hurt to try.

The 360 will format it to FAT Ging but it's the speed they run at that matters. After mine was formatted it was still supposedly too slow and 'may cause problems'. The only ones which definatley work are Sandisk.

Hmm. That's a bit gay.

[Tom909]

Hmm. That's a bit gay.

It is. I wonder how much Sandisk pay MS for it to stay that way?