Xbox Series X Has a Smart Feature for Managing Game Storage. With the release date for the Xbox Series X rapidly approaching, Microsoft unveils a new way for users to manage game storage on consoles.
- You won't have to worry about constant maintenance, unpredictable growth, storage sprawl, replication or any of the costs that come with network shares. In fact, Box customers in real estate, healthcare and financial services are projected to save between $1.3M and $6M. over three years if they replace their legacy infrastructure with Box.
- The Xbox One is equipped with a 500 GB or 1 TB internal hard drive depending on which console you purchased. Most of this space is available for storing games and apps, though some is reserved for saved games, console software, and other important system functions.
- The Xbox One does support installing to an external USB 3.0 hard drive, but not to a network share, as far as I am aware. Main: FreeNAS 11.2 Supermicro X11SSM-F with Intel Core i3-6300 and 1.16GB Samsung ECC DDR4 2133MHz 6. WD30EFRX WD Red 3TB in RAIDZ2 and 1.120GB SanDisk SSD (boot).
Hi All, new to here so apologies in advance if i say some newbie type things!
I have taken a look online about the above point and I cant really see anything more recent than 2016 relating to xbox, so thought i'd ask:
Bit about what setup I have:
I built myself earlier on in the year a FreeNAS server from an old HP Microserver (NL40 from memory with 8GB of RAM) with several TB's of storage available. I run FreeNAS off a bootable USB (to ensure I can maximize all disk space in the server). I mainly use it for Plex media sharing on my devices. I setup the Zraid to give me some level of resilience. I plan to setup Crashplan for a local backup in the future and plan to provision a vm on the disk pool in the future so i can bin off my ever aging laptop.
What i need advice on:
I have recently purchased an XBox One S with 500G storage. I have quickly learned that installing games pretty much swallows up the disk space pretty quickly. So it got me thinking..'Why cant I use my x TB's of space on my FreeNAS box for installing games on?'
Given the speed of gigabit NIC's are pretty fast, I am assuming that it being on the network rather than local wouldn't be an issue. I know that's a big assumption
If I wanted to attempt to use my FreeNAS storage pool for Xbox game installs, is it possible?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance
Dave
I have taken a look online about the above point and I cant really see anything more recent than 2016 relating to xbox, so thought i'd ask:
Bit about what setup I have:
I built myself earlier on in the year a FreeNAS server from an old HP Microserver (NL40 from memory with 8GB of RAM) with several TB's of storage available. I run FreeNAS off a bootable USB (to ensure I can maximize all disk space in the server). I mainly use it for Plex media sharing on my devices. I setup the Zraid to give me some level of resilience. I plan to setup Crashplan for a local backup in the future and plan to provision a vm on the disk pool in the future so i can bin off my ever aging laptop.
What i need advice on:
I have recently purchased an XBox One S with 500G storage. I have quickly learned that installing games pretty much swallows up the disk space pretty quickly. So it got me thinking..'Why cant I use my x TB's of space on my FreeNAS box for installing games on?'
Given the speed of gigabit NIC's are pretty fast, I am assuming that it being on the network rather than local wouldn't be an issue. I know that's a big assumption
If I wanted to attempt to use my FreeNAS storage pool for Xbox game installs, is it possible?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Many thanks in advance
Dave
Introduction
There has been much talk recently of NAS devices which I have followed with interest. The idea of a small low-power fileserver and BitTorrent client appeals to me as it uses less electricity and also can be shut in a cupboard where noise is not an issue. The Kurobox [reviewed here] seems ideal for the job, however its high price and lack of availability in the UK means that, for me at least, it is not an option.
Adobe premiere cc 2014 crack mac. A Mac mini could also work, but again it is too expensive, and can only handle 2.5' hard drives. Linksys' NSLU2 [reviewed here] might be a reasonable choice, but is lacking in both RAM and processing power.
Which brings us to Microsoft's Xbox. The Xbox is basically a PC with 64MB RAM, a Celeron 733Mhz CPU, 100Mb Ethernet, a 10Gb Hard drive and DVD Drive. What's more, they are dirt cheap (mine cost €75, about $88 USD) and soon to be two-a-penny with the release of the Xbox 360. There is also active development on Xbox-Linux, so it is easy to install and configure like any other Linux device.
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So the aim of this project is to turn an Xbox into a dedicated fileserver / NAS by replacing the DVD drive with a large hard drive, installing Linux, and setting up Samba and BitTorrent. The resulting box will no longer be able to be used for gaming, but makes a full-featured and relatively inexpensive NAS. Adobe premiere pro for windows 10 64 bit.
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