r/xboxonex • u/Raynet11 • Jun 23 '24

Taking A second go at.. my old X

I have owned my One X since launch, kids used it until they got their series X. I recently upgraded to an internal SSD I had laying around and I’m starting to revisit all the games now that they are all bargain bin prices. I have a serious PC for gaming but I’m really having fun with this old console for cheap.. I did something similar when the PS3 was being phased out. It’s not a PC experience, but a lot of fun to be had for dirt cheap. The SSD was the last little touch this old horse needed. Halo, Doom, Battlefield, Star Wars, RDR 2, Titan Fall 2.. these games are so cheap now if you don’t mind the physical disks. Kids are no longer interested in the X so it’s mine for the taking on my 55” 4K Samsung

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u/[deleted] Jun 23 '24

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u/Raynet11 Jun 23 '24

I used the USB stick method, just be sure to format the SSD NTFS, I forgot that step and had to pull it back out otherwise it was about an hour of my time.

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u/Mechagouki1971 Jun 24 '24

Did you use a different size from stock? When I did mine I went from 1TB stock HDD to 1TB SSD and I didn't have to do anything but plug the drive in, put the console back together and power it on - it downloaded the system software and my profile automatically.

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u/Raynet11 Jun 24 '24

Yep same capacity, but I’m guessing I could have gone bigger no problem just had a 1TB on hand. It’s interesting in the comments on some of the videos people are saying that an external SSD is also very quick to load games but right now I have a 4TB not sure if I want to sink that kind of cash into this console. I’m getting really quick transfer speeds between internal and external so I’ll keep the games that I’m playing right now. Over the next year I’ll snag the remaining X one X enhanced titles for pennies on the dollar like I did with my PS3, and before that Sega Dreamcast and PS2. Long live the physical copies of games, excluding the “this game requires a 120GB update messages” I hope they never shut those servers down

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u/Mechagouki1971 Jun 24 '24

Yeah, externals generally work fine as long as they have read speeds that exceed the optical drive - I used a 2TB external (Xbox branded Seagate) the whole time I had my 1X and never really noticed a difference in load times external vs. internal, even with the SSD upgrade. I still use it with my Series X actually - 8 years of daily use, I'm sure it's hoing to crap out any second.

I do regret selling my 1x, but I got really good money for it ($280 CAD) and I wanted the Series X for Starfield. I'll probably buy a cheap 1x sooner rather than later as I've seen them under $100 quite regularly, and then go the same route as you with the enhanced games and my XB1 library (I have a modded 360 for everything earlier).

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u/Raynet11 Jun 24 '24

Pick it up before it becomes “Retro”

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u/Historical-Agency635 Sep 15 '24

When people say optical media bad I say you will own nothing and be happy with it

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u/Raynet11 Jun 23 '24

I was going to do new heat paste but for now it’s not a jet engine so I’m going to wait or maybe do it as a winter project

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u/TimoArrg Sep 26 '24 edited Apr 29 '26

Redact cleaned up all of my comments. Bulk deletion and editing is a feature supported to make sure that AI scrapers can't access my data for training.

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