Please note: Prices and availability of SSDs change. I suggested a Samsung QVO in this video, but right now the Crucial MX500 is a much better buy, as it's virtually the same cost as the BX or QVO, but a much better drive. Take my discussion of SSDs in this video more as advice on the type and form factor of drive to look for, rather than a specific model.
You would think the fools that makes the consoles would install a dam SSD from day one since they are nothing new, i hate the way these people think and work, thank god ps5 is so perfect
here in canada the Xbox series s ... is 599.99 new befor taxes so approximately 725$ after taxes !!!! and well theirs the issue with all consoles and thats thermal throttling and you only get 120FPS tops ......i could get a budget too mid range computer that gets better FPS .. funny the Xbox series X and S are relatively new too the markey and your already replacing a hard drive !!!! so i would question the quality of all its parts .... cheap PSU , cheap Harddrive , cheap integrated graphic's , Cheap underbined cpu from AMD 3.6GHZ on paper seems good but longivity i do not think is good at all .. better off getting a 3-4 year old gaming PC with quality parts around the same price !!!
wait why didnt you just plug the New SSD into you PC with the old xbox hard drive and open each drive window then select and drop all of the contents of the old hard drive into the new SSD so all his games and setting everything is on the new SSD its as easy as that and will copy it all even if its corrupt it will repair it ... but litterally this shows the quality aspect of the xbox series s and x it was released November 2020 !!!! its not even a year old ... i have a youtube /HTC movie PC with original hard drive thats from 2012 still running good today and i gave it a rough life lol with a Core 2 quad,8gb ram and gtx 960 LMAO its out of date but runing windows 10 and i use it for netflix and youtube in my bedroom and still runs fast and fine LMAO used a leaf blower on the deck too clear the dust out of it just this week LO
It's not fair at all. He should be charging the full labor/diagnostic rate regardless if the guy wants to change it or not. That ain't his problem he did his job.
This man is my spirit animal, I've never seen someone teach the same way I do with my sense of humor, amazing stuff! I'm using this as a reference guide to upgrade my little brothers Xbox One S, easily the best video I've seen on the subject!
I am wishing more people would repair and reuse their stuff instead of throwing away . We moan about pollution but thats what we get each time we are making more of things like this
Well said Rusty, I work at Staples and its absolutely disgusting the things people will recycle that can be repurposed and repaired. 4-5 weeks ago a guy dropped of a GAMING PC with a 980 ti and an i7-8700k in it. I begged the company to let me have it, but no, it has been taken away to a recycling plant of which they declined to share with me where it was going. We live in a society that is full of greed and pollution and it's just sad. Electronics Recycling adds to the pollution problem, once they get sent to the plant and get melted down, it just puts toxins in the air.
Harddisk is hardly ever the problem. However you are right. There's a vid floating around with a guy who bought 15 broken ps4's, where like 11 were perfectly fine.
@@Xfade81 Unfortunately, it's more common than you think, just because you haven't experienced it or have experienced it less than other issues with Xbox Ones, it does happen quite often.
I finally got around to installing a 870 EVO in my OG XB1 and used your vid to install it. Works perfect and it is much snappier. Even with the SATA 2 interface the difference is noticeable. Great video.
Another informative video that was very interesting to watch. What i find amazing in each of your videos is that you seem to know exactly how to open up the device without damaging the clips or retainers, or which screws to remove and which not to. Cheers man keep the videos coming.
There's a knack to prying enclosures open which is really really hard to explain, but incredibly valuable to learn. I might make a video about it, as it's something that I see students struggle with often.
so microsoft just lets you do this now? i thought you had to do some relatively shady stuff by cloning OS info with a third party script. this is bonkers. have you gotten any xbox one x's where you had to change the drive? this is great news!
i thought xbox was like ps where they aloud and supported you replacing the hdd. This looks like they tried to make it impossible to do for the general consumer base.
I’ve actually for the first time opened and cleaned my Xbox all on my own because of these types of videos I wish more people would just be open to working on there own stuff
Thank you very much sir for this tutorial. I have a slight advantage because of my technical experience but I have never repaired a gaming console before. I followed step by step and now my kids think I'm a hero lol! I upgraded to the Samsung 860 Evo 500GB and so far so good! Thanks again!
My man! I got a used XBox One S for 80USD (which was a major steal) and it worked fine for a few months then bombed. My little guy was devastated. We had just purchased him serious Turtle Beach headsets and a few disc games and we thought for sure that was all now a big waste. Then came you and this video! Thank you so much! Wishing you a healthy and prosperous 2021.
With as quickly as hard drives fail, Microsoft probably eventually decided "Fine, whatever, lets just let them replace the hard drives themselves. Sony's doing it, so lets do it too." Hence why Microsoft finally put up that page.
@@kylewilkins4258 sony let their costumers do it but microsoft does not cos they want $$$ When they revealed the xbox price everyone kept quiet at the launch event But ps4 on the other hand got alot of excitement.
I never knew it was that easy to install the system software, I thought we had to prepare the software for the hdd/ssd beforehand on a computer unless that’s for the 360
I think if you go with a drive less than 500GB or more than 2TB (Xbox compatible sizes) then you would have to make some changes not seen here because you need to trick the Xbox into thinking there's a compatible drive there but I wouldn't advise going above 2TB because there can be issues later down the line and less than 500GB is just pointless as there are predefined sizes for each partition so the last time I messed about with a 250GB for an Xbox the actual space for storage turned out to be in the region of 130GB but this was only as a project before I put a 4TB in there
@@DeanD1990 yes i thought there was some script you had to load. Do you have to stick to the size the xbox came with as my nephews came with a 500gb can i use a 1 terabyte with this easy procedure
I think it cocked up during an update so i have tried installing the software via a flash drive and it gets to about 60% and stalls. Im guessing the hard drive is knackered
I find it absolutely horrid to actually type on... however, the convenience is absolutely worth it. I've got three of them in the shop, and it's so much better having a combo unit and wireless key on a lanyard compared to messing around with a wired mouse and keyboard on a workbench.
So found your video to be helpful! But through my experience I learned that if a console is part of the "Xbox Preview Program," then none of this, including the OSU1 offline update will work, even with a new hard drive. I thought my Xbox One X had a bad hard drive since a recent update got caught in a fail/restart cycle. Replaced the hard drive with a new one, but same issue continued to happen and offline update would always instantly fail. Decided to test the old hard drive with SeaTools and both short and long generic tests passed on the old HHD. So started looking at other issues. Finally was able to determine that the offline update and/or scripts for a new hard drive will not work for a console on the Xbox Preview Program. To do so, the console must be removed (unenrolled) from the preview program and then offline update or even an online update will work. At least that is what worked for me.
How does one unenroll from the preview program if the drive is dead? If there's no network (dead drive and no operating system), then there's no way for the Xbox to communicate (or vice versa) with MS servers...?
@@cezardob You can unenroll from the preview program when logged in on any Xbox. My brother logged into my account on his Xbox, unenrolled my account and console from the preview program. I thought and all errors indicated the drive was bad, but ended up finding out that wasn't the case. It was the Preview Program update that was bad, my drive was perfectly fine. So I wouldn't really know anything about having to deal with an actual dead drive situation, combined with the Preview Program issue.
@@K-tf9vt ok, so that makes sense. My only concern is how would the "defective" Xbox know that it was no longer enrolled when network services don't work because the unit doesn't boot to the main screen so my assumption is that internet won't work, either. It's definitely worth looking into. Thanks for the reply.
@@cezardob yep, valid question. But if you can easily login on another Xbox and unenroll, may be worth the try. Either way, best of luck in getting it fixed.
with new Simply method,use new 1tb SSD(or 500gb) ,no partition needed,put the new drive inside unformatted. Plug-in USB pendrive with latest osu1 unzipped in root $SystemUpdate . Power on, system update offline and voilà new powered up One S/X, ultra Easy today. PS: with this method 480/960GB doesnt works. DONT USE CHEAP SSD, or DRAMLESS. best choice price performance for sata 3 860/870EVO/MX500.
I own an IT Company here in the states, i must say i do agree with your business model. charge them a little more for labor, you are highly skilled and professional, you more than your worth my friend.
Another great video. Performance increase with an SSD really depends on the game being played. Overall an SSD will improve loading time performance on average of 15 - 45 seconds, but bandwidth through the southbridge chip of the Xbox S is limited, so do not expect lighting fast improvements on all games as you would see on a PC for example. The bottle neck is the southbridge, not the SATA header. For reliability it is a no brainier to install an SSD.
Is the south bridge where the sata controller is? A ssd should also kill a hdd in iops as well. Running your os plus games from an ssd should net noticeable gains otherwise you could just use an external ssd.
@@saysbadman The southbridge is a support processor for the APU, basically it handles input and outputs to/from other components on the board (HDMI, WiFI, HDD etc). So even though the SATA and APU can handle higher bandwidth, the southbridge throttles throughput for certain I/Os to allow it to handle the multiple requests without crashing/overheating etc etc
Raw sequential bandwith isn't the problem with HDDs in the 8th console generation. The problem is in HDD's IOPS, seek time and the multiple small files that multiply the seek time. I was thinking for a long time now to change my HDD to SSD on my One S, made the change on my PS3 and PS4 many years ago cause they were extremely easier and didn't involve opening the device completely (i am extremely clumsy and useless when it comes to these delicate actions and i would never wanna damage my devices). Adamant here made it look very casual and made me wanna give it a go now that my primary XB device is a Series X. I have ordered an SSD an i'll try it tomorrow when i have what i need.
@@revelator3665 well it worked out good for me my Xbox had an error code I couldn't do any on my Xbox just swapped in new SSD my Xbox is actually working thank god
I bought a 1tb 860 Evo from Amazon for like £70 a year back just because the packaging was damaged which by that meant the cardboard was a bit bent on the corner . . . Also to add so glad my grandad was a electrician it got me fascinated in the innards of electronics and has saved me so much money over the years xD
Wow they've made this a lot easier than it first was with the original one haha. I remember having to learn some Linux to get this done and having to use very specific drives so am very glad to here it's changed so much. Thanks for the video it's helped answer a ton of questions so I can help repair an xbox for a friend who was able to pick up a broken one that was destined for the bin. Awesome stuff!
Fantastic video, great work... although I'd recommend a Samsung EVO 870 SSD... the hard drive performance will make a big difference in using the console.
I appreciate the time and effort that you put into this tutorial! At first I remember when I swapped the original Xbox one hard drive out with the regular hard drive and it took forever damn near to open it up. This one does seem to be similar, but it's very much easier and not to mention with me being an IT I'm waaaaaay smarter on how to open up electronics than I did back then. Definitely was wondering how we get the operating system on it after swapping it out with the SSD and glad that Microsoft actually has a method for this for off-line system update. Once again appreciate your time and thorough description on how to do this and I will be doing this within the next couple of days.
The thing is a lot of console gamers have external storage. The internal storage only holds the operating system. I have an 8TB external HDD where my games are stored.
What the hell. It's that easy now. I guess the PS4 made this possible cause changing the drive in that is so easy. Thank youuuuuuuu so much. So instead of a series x an SSD will do for my one x for a while.
If this method works on the xbox one x, this will save me a lot of time screwing around with cloning. The hard drive in my xbox one x is failing to do system updates, so I'm figuring the drive's done (plus the guy I bought it from took his console with him to different places, so it makes sense why the drive died)
yes in my one x i have put mx500 unformatted ;-)...use newer 1tb SSD(or 500gb) ,no partition needed,put the new drive inside unformatted. Plug-in USB pendrive with latest osu1 unzipped in root. Power on, system update offline and voilà new powered up One X, ultra Easy today. PS: with this method 480/960GB doesnt works.
I cannot believe MS made it this Easy! There was actually a point where you needed to get another Program to give you and Encrypt the HDD/SSD you wanted with MS's Partitions for the HDD in order for it to work. Now they made it this easy. Holy shit! Thank you for the Upload!!
@@hatsonchickens First of all who is talking about PlayStation, and who needs to Compare or create this challenge that no one is asking for? With PS4 the User was always welcomed to swap out their internal drive, with Xbox it wasn't allowedd and you needed some Mod created Software tools to create more or less a reverse Jail Break.
Someone said that load times on a console aren't as quick as a pc's load times so I'd say that it's an unnecessary upgrade in my opinion, unless of course you're in the same scenario
I plan on moving my game installs to an external hard drive then upgrading the internal storage to potentially a 2TB SSD, then just using the internal after moving the games back.
Actually there isn't problem pushing/touching the top. The metal plate is quite thick + there is always big air gap inside. I mean, to do any damage, you have to hit it hard with something.
You're talking to the guy who doesn't take anti-static precautions. I'm not exactly a model of 'best practises'. But I've also watched work-experience kids holding a laptop HDD in a death-grip while they unscrew the rails on it, so you kinda want to make sure they're not clamping into the top.
After Seeing this video I upgraded my xbox one x. Everything seems to work great however the boot animation is now gone which is apparently a known issue using this method. But that's not a big deal. My console seems much more responsive now....Using and older 1TB 850 Evo from my desktop pc.
@@Major.Ocelot2U I just looked and its 781GB I am not sure I would swap it out in the old vcr looking org xbox one the drive would be worth more than the console but that's your call
Good to see that both the PS4 & XB1 can be easily fixed/upgraded with a new HDD or SSD. I believe the 360 required a weird workaround, if you wanted a drive larger than their proprietary addon drives, it requiring copying of specific data from existing drive. So I never bothered trying to upgrade my 360 HDD, whereas I swapped my 80GB PS3 drive for a 320GB HDD. I did end up with a 320GB 360 drive though, as I got the Halo 4 360 in a trade in deal, that was weirdly generous for a GAME deal. Trading a 250GB slim with 1 controller + £100, it got you; the custom clear shell console, 2x custom controllers, 320GB HDD, Halo 4 on disc & fresh warranty.
Stock 360 consoles used whitelisted drives to prevent cheap 3rd party upgrades, but they're still standard 2.5" HDDs in more (phat 360) or less (slim 360) weird enclosures. Fairly easy to circumvent by getting a WD HDD up to 500GB and using "hddhackr 1.40" on your PC to make said WD HDD pretend being one of those whitelisted official drives which the console will then accept. Unfortunately 500GB is the upper limit because no official drive larger than that was ever released that the software could make the new drive pretend to be
For everyone: Quick tip for hdds not ssds. If they stop being recognised, it can sometimes mean dirty contacts or slight discolouring of contacts between the boards and the hdd itself. Where contacts from the drive itself touch the board, use an eraser to go over the discoloured contacts. I had this recently and have had this a couple of times now. Just go over with a soft eraser till they are clean and then you just put it back together and you should be fine. You could use IPA but if you do not have one, and eraser will do so long as it is a soft one and will crumble a bit easier, you do not want too hard in case you damage the contacts. This does mean taking the hdd board off the hdd and cleaning but this does NOT mean the sata power or data contacts. The other contacts between the board and the hdd which is why I say, taking the board off the hdd. This may not be as well known. Provided there is no other issue like clicking and just that it is not being detected, your drive may actually be fine, just clean the contacts on the board to the drive itself which as contacts that are slightly springy, just becareful not to damage anything.
You're very convincing regarding the logic on why fix the hard drive compared to just buy a new console. These days tho, they have the series x with better specs plus an ssd. You can find those for like $250 sometimes. So I'd prob go with that option.
@@jijaram HDD load times always sucked, thats why youre supposed to buy an SSD if you want fast load times. But for price per gigabyte an HDD is unbeatable.
Needing a new hd/ssd for my refurbished PS4 Slim, menus become slow sometimes and during gameplay it lags. Wish ssd weren't so pricey 😅 but thank you for the tutorial!
@@oneamazingkaboomer yea but you still want to use one with a dram cache in it. If you go to cheap and get one without a dram. It might effect installing big games. It would be actually an interesting test.
@mister.T Jr no no, Dramcache in an SSD makes it much faster. This is something that alot of cheaper SSD's dont have. very shortly how it works is that it saves some data that may accure later on in the cache so it responds much faster. SSD's without this can be times and times slower than the SSD with it. They can be fine without it for light loads but they (in many cases) even gets slower than a normal HDD
Quickly closing is on 50K subs, sometime in August btl. Any plans for a video to mark that milestone? How about a viewer Q&A? I've got a couple of questions you could add to your list. I'm a fairly new subscriber (last few months) so you may have answered these in previous videos ... apologies if this is the case. 1. How did you get into repairing PCs and do you have any formal training or are you completely self taught? 2. What happens when you break something during a repair? Do you always foot the bill or are there some situations where the customer has to wear it? You must get some pretty janky computers come through your doors that either have garbage components and/or have been poorly looked after and are therefore a repair nightmare.
believe it or not but this is kinda the first time i seen someone actually hold and examine the samsung 860s and i have watch GIGA amounts of tech videos
was it worth it? Does it make a difference? From what I've seen, not so much. I upgraded my PS4pro to 2TB Firecuda (HDD+8GB SSD) because it was super easy and only 1TB. It makes the system boot faster but otherwise, not really...
@@revelator3665 I wasn't questioning the drive itself, I merely asking whether it was worth upgrading for the hassle rather than just plugging in external drive
@@juraj_b Yes it worth, Best performance Everywhere, LAG in os and in game,os latency,loading game and reloading, response time of the system, worth every penny. But no with cheap SSD. Only 860EVO and MX500. Not less. SShd Is much Much slower than this 2 SSD.
@@revelator3665 it seems that the exetrnal SSD will do just fine as the difference is negligible ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-gVsp2vOAziA.html
better off selling it and buying yourself a pc my guy, now that halo infinite is gonna be on pc as well theres no reason to keep an xbox, which is honestly disappointing because i grew up with the original xbox
@@lilakila5935 not everyone use a console the same way. I guess my Xbox One X for 4K Blu-ray playback, as well as for playing backwards compatible with Xbox 360 titles and any Xbox originals they have made digital. Makes well for occasional LAN parties with my friends. On top of that, I *also* have a R5 2600/1070ti/64GB gaming rig but they each see their share of usage. Time will tell how my overall setup changes.
@@lilakila5935 I do have a PC also. I like games on both platforms and I have other use cases for each machine also. I also use XBox Game Streaming on my smartphone every now and then to play games that are installed on the XBox, which works quite well even on mobile data. This SSD swap might be useful if I can't upgrade to the Series X this year.
unfortunately it's much better to have storage than speed. personally I wouldn't do anything less than a two terabytes. the Seagate fire cuda 2 TB sshd is a pretty good compromise
microsoft's document needs updating. i tried the same approach with my day one xbox one with 512gb hdd (not x or s) and i was able to directly use OSU1 w/o having to go through OSU2 or OSU3. this is from a blank 1tb SSD.
I always recommend if doing hard drive replacements in consoles 2-4 TB is the option as a longevity tool 1TB has been obsolete standards since the introduction of blue ray as a standard in console..
@@shooterboi sadly how many games do you play or have you installed on the system>?? I ask this average games these days can meet or exceed 250 GB on install nby the time you install: game day 1 patch 4k DLC mods updates I run all the games on a 2TB external Though I would love to run a 8TB option in an ssd at 1 point..
So that's how you open this model! Thanks! Like you, I'm more of a laptop and PC repair tech. I don't have much experience opening these game consoles.
Wait, so these now repartition themselves? You used to have to create the partitions on the drive before dropping it in the console, but it looks likes yours rebuilt itself. Microsoft must have made this a bit easier now, awesome!
I just dropped in a completely uninitialised drive and let the restore software do everything. Can I put this to the test with any Xbox 360 game? I have some in a box because of reasons, so I could actually confirm if backward compatibility is working or not if it's as simple as putting a few 360 game in the drive and testing them.
@@Adamant_IT please do I'm curious as to what will work and how all is going with the swap make an update video as to how games are running xbox one and 360 overall system features and the likes I'm thinking of doing the same swap but I want to know what works and doesn't before I do thanks
@@BradElliot yes all things mechanical that turn or move will wear and probably stop working eventually ... but that SDD's never fail is a myth, and at least you can get the platter out of a failed hdd and access the data ...
@@Ecmslee in reality ssds brick when they die. SSDS might last j ust under 10 years at best, hdds can last longer if treated well and with some good luck
Great tutorial vid, thank you! Just did the same with my Xbox following your guide. Only issue I had was not having the appropriate tools which made getting the screws undone difficult, without stripping them in the process. But otherwise the transfer was a success and hoping it makes a difference in my gaming 😊👍
Cheapest one! Noooooo!, you can check speed of the drives and compare them as well as warranty. Some drives are 1 year warranty, some 3... faster drives make for a better experience and don't really cost more in most cases, if you're already spending money, get your moneys worth! ( just my 2 cents )
I'll be doing at least part of this very procedure, and hope I don't run into any issues. I suspect a drive failure like you had here, I get the exact same error code. If so, then the entire fix will be identical as yours. Glad I watched this, it appears it's exactly what I need to do... thanks. Edit: after doing some research I've discovered this video does NOT show the full precedure installment process, it leaves out part of it. You cannot install a OSU on this Xbox on a blank drive without preparing the drives partitions on a PC. This Xbox cannot partition and format their own drives... which you did NOT show.
@@garyr7027 Thanks man. I just bought a WD Blue SSD. I’m actually even getting it delivered today with an adapter so I can plug it in to Windows first to see what the format is out of the box
@@damon323new drives are blank, they don't have any partitions. Plug it into your PC, and in my computer, right click on the drive, scroll down and choose format, then choose format NTFS option and windows will take care of the rest. If I recall you'll only need one partition so do a partition on the entire drive capacity.
@@garyr7027 Sounds great man, really appreciate the reply! I always use Disk management in Windows and SSD's, but wasn't sure on the Xbox. Thanks again. I should've done this upgrade a long time ago. I hate spinning drives. Lol!
hi there, i have the same issue with my xbox one s. so i bought the tool to see if the hdd is broken and followed all the steps from this video, thank you. But what need to be done if the test passed but the xbox still isn't working
first i would like to congratulate you on this wonderful tutorial therefore i have a question if you can change the internal hard drive to another bigger drive. if so, are there any manipulation to be done or exactly the same procedure ??
thank you so much you made it easy for me to do this on my xbox one x iv subscribed give a thumbs up your my hero iv been wanting to put an ssd in my x for a long time but all the other vids iv found have long and complecated whys of doing it thanks you agane
I did to several X1's and with my one X but I used a script tool from XFiX here on RU-vid. I went with a 2TB of an 860 QVO and definitely helps tremendously in a lot of titles. Sometimes the formatting can be finicky but it looks like you got a good one first try. I learned never put it back together until you can confirm the update can start successfully! lol
I would upgrade the Xbox One S to an SSD anyway. Even though the new Xbox is coming out soon you can still take the SSD out of the Xbox One S and use it for the new console. So either way you're not losing money. The SSD for the one ask and still be used for the new Xbox coming out
I thought you had to clone the hdd or something? so you're telling me I don't need to buy a USB to sata adapter anymore? I bought two 1TB Mushkin SSD 2 days ago(I'm expecting it from the mail tomorrow) so you're telling me I can just install my SSD and with a thumbdrive update the software? I thought Microsoft doesn't allow you to do that I'm confused.
Seems to be the case these days, yes! No tricks here, just dropped in an uninitialised, unformatted drive, then followed the restore instructions on the MS website.
QVO SSD I would only recommend for archiving purposes. They have small caches and are dram less cache. So once the internal cache is filled up it can depending on the controller run as slow as a mechanical hdd when writing or reading data. Imo if a client is running a SSD as a boot OS drive. Then I'll use a dram cache tlc drive instead. When the cache fills up there is not much of a penalty on write and read performance. Something to keep in mind.
