USB mass storage support coming to Xbox 360 on April 6th

We had a pretty firm idea that this was happening, but now Major Nelson has gone and made it official: mass storage is coming the Xbox 360 at long last. There will be a system update on April 6th, which will allow up to two simultaneous USB flash drives plugged into the system, which will be capable of storing profiles, game saves, demos, "and more." The maximum size supported is 16GB, and even though regular USB hard drives will be supported, they'll be up against the same size cap, and performance will suffer as well. You'll have to manually format a USB device for use in this way when plugging it into the 360, but Microsoft will be partnering with SanDisk for a branded drive in May that will come preconfigured. Also tweaked is the new memory management screen (what convenient timing!) which should make shuffling around these files less of a chore. Check out some screenshots below.

[Thanks, Jeff]

Xbox 360 mass storage screenshots

[mhunterjr Posted Mar 26th 2010 3:51PM]

I wonder how overprice the official drives will be...

[mhunterjr Posted Mar 26th 2010 4:00PM]

they probably put the cap so that they can be the only ones to release a 32 gig official stick. And overprice it...

[acme64 Posted Mar 26th 2010 6:06PM]

why?

[epoch24 Posted Mar 26th 2010 7:35PM]

ok...to all the guys saying fail and what not, please...this is a positive step at least for all the arcade users also some one now buying an arcade for a 100 pound can just buy a pen drive for another 20, and lo 120 pound and you have a world class console, see if you get a ps3 for that price. If anything arcade sales are gonna go up after this...way up...good one MS.

[Vinnymac Posted Mar 26th 2010 10:00PM]

I was waiting for that to happen since year one of the xbox 360 release. Thank you for knocking sense into microsoft.

[AppleMaster10 Posted Mar 26th 2010 10:12PM]

Wow only up to 32GB. I was plannig on buying an arcade and getting a 250GB external bard drive

[Kerensky97 Posted Mar 26th 2010 11:18PM]

Good to see somebody else playing AvP. Although I hear it's crap on consoles (or the 14 year-olds and just whining more than usual).