1st January 2024, 3:50 PM
https://www.tomshardware.com/news/covers...-series-xs
One of the biggest annoyances of the XBox Series design is the use of a proprietary connector for adding NVME speed storage to the system. It's a problem MS had with the XBox 360, again with the XBox One (where technically you CAN upgrade the drive, but only to specific sizes that were originally officially supported) and again now. As the only company that pulls this nonsense, it can be annoying.
Fortunately, a company has put together a functional adapter to allow very select m.2 drives to function. Specifically, the m.2 NVME speed drives using firmware already preapproved by the XBox Series' OS. This appears to work and work well, but the fact it works at all means there's nothing special about MS's connector protocol. It's literally just a lockout tool. In any case, it'll be important to have converters like this in the long run when external support and production of these custom drives stops.
One of the biggest annoyances of the XBox Series design is the use of a proprietary connector for adding NVME speed storage to the system. It's a problem MS had with the XBox 360, again with the XBox One (where technically you CAN upgrade the drive, but only to specific sizes that were originally officially supported) and again now. As the only company that pulls this nonsense, it can be annoying.
Fortunately, a company has put together a functional adapter to allow very select m.2 drives to function. Specifically, the m.2 NVME speed drives using firmware already preapproved by the XBox Series' OS. This appears to work and work well, but the fact it works at all means there's nothing special about MS's connector protocol. It's literally just a lockout tool. In any case, it'll be important to have converters like this in the long run when external support and production of these custom drives stops.