Xbox One 10 Year Anniversary SSD Performance Upgrade

Xbox One released 10 years ago on November 22, 2013. In this video I replace the HDD with an SSD drive and compare load times on various games. Is it worth it to upgrade the Xbox One to an SSD?
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Offline system update:
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Chapters
00:00 Intro boot time
00:50 About the console
02:03 Cleaning
03:03 Offline system update
03:48 Power On Test
06:18 Disk Size
06:37 Grand Theft Auto V
08:36 Red Dead Redemption
10:30 Forza Motorsport 6
11:53 Disk Write Speed Test
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[@FriedTendi]

12 seconds is a hell of a time-save

[@Mashruz]

😂😂😂

[@charliesnotsafe]

Agreed. These old consoles work perfectly fine besides menu / gameplay slow down as they age but being able to elimage that makws them feel like brand new

[@rushgameing3085]

They need to launch the new consoles in a few years here with a 2tb SSD anything less is not enough storage in my opinion

[@pathfindercast]

Especially since xbox requires physical games to "install" on the drive. Also with the rumors of going all digital, larger drives will me needed even more.

[@jfgaxeworks3447]

This was a really helpful video! I installed a similar drive and the difference is stunning overall. The way that it woke up my tired v1 XBOne is clear. Menus, in particular, and load times on open world games... it's a lot. Cleaning it up inside helps a lot too :)

[@pathfindercast]

That's awesome to see. Thanks for the comment.

[@NormalishGuy]

Added a 2Tb SSD to my Xbox one X and read dead 2 saved me about 43 seconds in loading and Forza horizon 5 took my HDD 3ish minutes for a completed saved file but on the SSD it saved me about a minute and a half

[@Emmanuel-xc3nn]

Totally. I upgraded my Xbox one x to an internal SSD two years ago and I’m so glad I did. I still think it runs so well.

[@seansmith908]

WIsh I could do this to a 360. Great video!

[@jjcd94]

the problem with that its the xbox 360 dosent support ssd without rgh

[@coooooolguy87]

Dang thank you so much for this video. I would totally would have done the same to see if there’s a difference and if I could upgrade the internal ssd.

[@1337million]

I'm considering doing this to my Xbox One. I don't really care much for the newest and biggest in videogames these days so I'll likely only be playing Halo and Hitman, but they take up almost all my space. Having a large enough internal drive that also makes the console and games load a little bit faster, even if it's only 10-15 seconds, is a good enough upgrade for me! And a reason to clean it's internals after 8 years of use. I wonder if there are more (simple)mods to do while I'm already thinking of opening it up...

[@maxswayy3497]

I just recently bought a External 500gb SSD for my original Xbox one , and it's way better with how smooth it runs and the load times on red dead , forza horizon 4, warzone and far cry 5 is better

[@1337million]

@@maxswayy3497 I've used an external SSD for playing movies through my Xbox and it really does work fast! Nice to know that also applies to games!

[@LockMakesStuff]

this is a great video, answered a question I didn't know I had lol

[@pathfindercast]

Thanks for the comment.

[@Emmanuel-xc3nn]

Did this to my Xbox One X. Upgraded to an internal SSD and wow. What a difference. That was two years ago and I bought the series X controller. I did own a series x but I sold it since I had a ps5 and the one x runs so well still. I watched this video to see if it was worth upgrading my girls OG Xbox one to an internal SSD for her. Might just get her to upgrade though.

[@pathfindercast]

Nice! I have the Series S, so I use my Xbox One for the disc based games. I'm also waiting to see if M$ is going to a mid-generation refresh or not.

[@MultimediaJay]

Yup. One of those capacitors is a bulger. 😕 Nice to put in an SSD though to cut the amount of moving parts you have to worry about. 🙂

[@mrlopez7173]

In my opinion the ssd is worth it ,if you don't plan to upgrade yet to next gen

[@chosenone3137]

Hello fellow Arizonan! I also got an. Xbox One, I got one for 50$ working and all.

[@pathfindercast]

Cheers! ☀

[@SteelRhinoXpress]

I use krynoaut grizzle thermal paste. It's a premium thermal paste, but a really good thermal paste for conductivity and longevity. The original xbox one has SATA Il. While the xbox one x\s has SATA lll. So you'll be able to fully utilize 600mb read and write speeds with SATA lll SSDs on the xbox one x/s. It would be interesting to get a xbox one s and put the same SATA lll SSD in it, and compare it to this xbox one to see if there is any real difference in load times between SATA ll vs SATA lll on these consoles.

[@pathfindercast]

Thanks for the recommendations. I'll check out the thermal paste. That is good to information about the xbox one x/s. If I come across one, I may try that test comparison.

[@DeadlyDragon935]

@@pathfindercastdont use it its designed for setting records so its longevity is very bad. Used it on a 13600k and within 3 months temps rose 10 degrees celcius.

[@jfsps15]

​@@DeadlyDragon935the mx4 is a good option, right?

[@izidororaziel4918]

@@jfsps15 that´s the one I use, on Xbox One and Xbox One X

[@Thatkidgamer2Xbox]

That battlefield 2042 on game pass on this🔥, The one X has 4k just in case with the Xbox one Kinect port which makes the Xbox way better Kinect support on a lot of games like Battlefield 4

[@pathfindercast]

Thanks for the recommendation. I wanted to try some additional Kinect games.

[@shaggytoph]

what does kinect do?

[@wallstreet2909]

@@pathfindercast hey man would you be willing to do a upgrade on my console? I would happily pay you.

[@pathfindercast]

Hi @@wallstreet2909 , thanks for the offer. I am not setup to do upgrades/mods for others. I like to play around with the consoles as a hobby, but not interested in turning it into something more than that right now.

[@LIVE781REDRUM]

Thank you

[@Babbages]

Noctua is my favorite thermal paste seems to be a few degrees lower and the best power supply is actually a 203w fat 360 power supply with one of them 5 dollar Xbox 360 to Xbox One AC Adapter thing will outlast everything and gives it a little extra power overhead also im pretty shure fat xb1 used SATA 2 which limits it to 300MB/s the one-s used sata 3 tho which could double it also external hdds can have a advantage because they do not have to load the operating system also.

[@MrTable678]

I kind of want to do this, I know nothing about thermal paste, though. How do I remove the old crap and how much new paste should I put

[@alexarnold6773]

There are many videos on yt detailing how but I like the spread the paste like an extremely thin layer of butter over the entire die then do a conservative x pattern

[@pathfindercast]

I usually can get the cpu pretty clean with isopropyl alcohol and q-tips. If it's really dried out I may use a tiny amount of de-solv-it on a q-tip. For applying new thermal paste, a little bit goes a long way, and I apply a dab about the size of a small grain of rice.

[@thegodgen]

was the lexar ssd d-ram less ssds without dram chache are slower then ones with dram

[@bryanwages3518]

Did u check to see if the ssd has dram. Then it will slow down as the drive fills up. Dramless drives are extremely slow for boot drives but is perfect for game storage drive

[@pathfindercast]

Interesting point. I did not check if it has DRAM when I purchased, it but the drive I used was a Lexar NS100. I did a little research and the SSD controller is the 88NV1120 Artemis from Marvell, a DRAM cache is not available. Is that good?

[@bryanwages3518]

@pathfindercast yea you looking for a dram cache. Without the cache the ssd can slow down as slow as a hard drive. That's why they are not recommended for boot drives. They are perfect for game storage drives though. Linus tech tips has a video on why that are not good for boot drives and explains why they slow down. Basically cheap ssds won't have the cache. I'd buy a Samsung drive or a sk hynix drive. You should also fill the drive up and redo the speed test to see if it slows down.

[@hasanmich1504]

Do you have to do anything to the empty drive before you put it in?

[@pathfindercast]

I installed the drive directly into the Xbox one straight from the packaging. The Xbox will boot up with an error which is why the firmware has to be on a USB drive.

[@mrlopez7173]

The boot time is the worse part of xbox one

[@pathfindercast]

I just bought a copy of The Division on disc at a thrift store so I booted up my xbone today. It still does take a long time to boot up even with SSD.

[@LIVE781REDRUM]

My day one launch has a 3 min green boot screen. I think the hdd is dying gta takes about 5 mins to load

[@fredriks91]

Toshiba usb drive? Is it hdd or ssd? Or just a thumb drive

[@xKuruh]

I was thinking the same thing it must have been a ssd

[@GrizzneyGames]

Soooo.... just get a large external ssd. Thanks for the experiments! Lol

[@nachoman472]

if he sells the game, he already made his profit back XD

[@eink-reviews]

Was the external drive hdd or SSD?

[@pathfindercast]

I used an external usb 3.0 hdd.

[@InlandQuarter]

Why do you need to disrespect the disk like that? Multiple times too man. My soul…

[@jessragan6714]

How the hell did we ever put up with such long load times?! O_o; Anyway. I've got an Xbox One S that's gathering dust. I'm tempted to replace the hard drive, since the old drive was too small and slow, but it's kind of pointless to bother with it now that I've got a Series S.

[@lindsayforbes3100]

Don't forget to copy the Xbox one boot animation from the hdd to the sdd

[@Emmanuel-xc3nn]

True. Or if not it’ll install the boot animation after it it updates to new firmware again.

[@arunprajapatikumhar8229]

Can we upgrade SSD in Xbox 360 also ?

[@DeadlyDragon935]

Why would you want to do that in the first place? Even with an ssd all other parts are slow af.

[@arunprajapatikumhar8229]

@@DeadlyDragon935 I have moded Xbox 360 slim thats why I am asking

[@Trains-With-Shane]

@@tenchotenchev5606That is incorrect. You can upgrade the internal disk in a stock system as well. It's just a slightly different procedure than if you have an RGH or JTAG mod.

[@Trains-With-Shane]

@@arunprajapatikumhar8229you certainly can and it's easy. A quick search will come up with results. I used MrMario's tutorial on my RGH3 Trinity console.

[@Jxlxl]

you should try and do the same with a 360 and try to optimize it as much to make it the ultimate 360 😮

[@Trains-With-Shane]

If using the newer 360 slim console the upgrade is super simple. And using an SSD, despite the 360 having an older SATA interface, does improve performance due to the faster random reads. I upgraded mine to a 1tb SSD just a week ago.

[@Arska2]

​@@Trains-With-Shane Can you actually use ssd as internal memory in retail console? I have been told that the xbox doesn't let you do that.

[@ChikaHakozaki]

this console is bottlenecked extremely by the slow sata that was used I wish we could upgrade the wifi in these too

[@brandon_nope]

2:29 APU, not CPU

[@dw9932]

I put 2tb western digital ssd on my xbox one s

[@franwex]

Wow. That’s a dirty console!

[@pathfindercast]

i agree. It was a lot of dust. I don't think it was in a smokers house either.

[@bouabdellahghanem4380]

to be honest 12second is a lot of time saved

[@Jaguar32x]

xbox one lol

[@mikekanner2156]

Even if you put the SSD in it you still can’t play Xbox series X games

[@MAYANK_SINGH696]

You seem to be dumb as shit..... We are upgrading it to load game faster and boot early 🤠

[@randykoger4646]

No one stated you could.

[@stevestars2966]

@@randykoger4646Well that’s the reason people want to use the SSD so it’s possible to play next gen games on the Xbox one X that’s why he posted this video he tried and he failed so it’s a waste of money to even put the SSD into the Xbox one if you can’t play Xbox series X your better off buying the Series x instead

[@itsandyfs]

@@stevestars2966huh?

[@MrTable678]

Could i just clone the old drive

[@give_me_my_nick_back]

I got probably about 30 games I found inside wii u consoles I bought to flip hahaha