Hardware Upgrade storage Xbox 360 fat

[ARandomHomebrewdude]

I saw in a Mrmario2011 video that I can upgrade my Xbox 360 storage drive with retail am I able to upgrade my Xbox storage without modding it to 500gb and would I have to use badupdate to upgrade it to 1Tb?

 

[DinohScene]

Retail units can accept 500 GB drives if they're ran through hddhackr.
Exploited/hardware hacked consoles don't have a security sector check so 16 TB is possible.

 

[ARandomHomebrewdude]

Retail units can accept 500 GB drives if they're ran through hddhackr.
Exploited/hardware hacked consoles don't have a security sector check so 16 TB is possible.

But if I wanted to do one terabyte on retail it wouldn’t work?

 

[DinohScene]

If you connect it as a USB device, yes.
If you want it as internal storage, no.

I don't think there's any patch/work around for retail systems to forgo the security sector.

 

[SirStarGazer]

I just upgraded my son's from 20 gb to 250 gb. I followed a video tutorial to swap out the drive.



Follow that video tutorial. And use FatXplorer to back up your partitions before swapping the drive.
(The drive has to be WD Western Digital. Check the compatibility with FatXplorer)

Tutorial on backing up with FatXplorer

Post automatically merged: Dec 5, 2025

Here's a video tutorial by Mr. Mario in case you want to use am SSD and larger sizes too.
Be aware that if you do 1Tb you're going to be able to use only about 500gb.

 

[leerz]

on rgh no issue
on retail/ non rgh, only old wd drives work
no problem with the procedure (fatxplorer & hddhackr) the issue is sourcing compatible pre 2020 drives)

 

[Blythe93]

Latest version of the FATXplorer and its paid tool SSD Maker can flash certain SSDs for retail Xbox 360 compatibility. There are some limitations, though: 1) 500GB max capacity, 2) SSD TRIM not supported (yet), 3) SSD Maker carries a low risk of bricking the SSD, but the chances are minimal and recovery is apparently possible. More info about that here.

tl;dr If you can find e.g. Lexar NS100 500GB for a decent price and you don't mind paying 3 USD for SSD Maker tool and the other limitations such as lack of SSD TRIM, this should be a pretty decent modern option.

 

[PhyChris]

But if I wanted to do one terabyte on retail it wouldn’t work?

yes but just 500gb will be available.

Note: larger drives have better performance but are 'capped' at 500GB for now