Xbox Series X SSD Replacement & Cloning Experiments

Xbox Series X SSD Replacement & Cloning Experiments - The Xbox Series X and S both have a removable SSD. In this video I'll be experimenting with replacing and cloning Xbox Series console SSD's to see if they are replaceable and if they can be swapped between consoles.

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[loplos]

The first rule of clones is to never clone a clone

[ModernVintageGamer]

i believe that there's a custom ASIC that is preventing this .

[Wink_FingerGun]

Why didn’t you attempt to clone the series S on to the 1tb and see if that allowed you to increase storage size?

[NorthridgeFix]

invaluable information and nicely executed.

[sigma]

Cloning will also partition it exactly the same as the cloned hard drive, so a 1TB SSD cloned from a Series S’s 512GB SSD will show up as a 512GB, not 1TB. You may be able to partition and format the excess space on a PC.

[naaitsab]

As it's a PCI-e based SSD (NVMe) it interfaces at a different level with the CPU/chipset then SATA. I've seen quite a lot of laptops getting stuck at CPU initialization (no image output or anything) because of a faulty NVMe SSD. Keep that in mind when testing consoles/PCs

[DaTruAndi]

As others have noted, you should have used a better cloning tool. Just get some USB to m.2 NVME type enclosures or use a computer with multiple SSD slots and clone with a Linux distribution. Also gives you the opportunity to analyze the partition layout, and so on.

[TheCodr]

Awesome Steve, really covering all bases here 😁

[retrogamereviews]

One thing to try with the new SSD, put it into the Xbox as it is and let the Xbox create the partition table and "bless" the drive (if the Xbox even turns on). Then try to clone it with the donor

[trooper]

'There is nothing that ties the ssd to the motherboard'
Microsoft : hmm interesting

[cdurkinz]

I have a Nintendo Switch that collects a lot of dust as you might imagine, recently went to mess with it and it wouldn't turn on or charge or anything. Was able to take it apart and test a bunch of things, thought maybe the USB C port died from a couple very short drops it's had while in the dock, but ended up just replacing the battery which brought it back to life. Thanks to your vids!

[IbsenRogerGomesRego]

Hey, just one question: did you also clone the series S' SSD into the donor SSD? I REALLY REALLY want to expand my XSS' memory.

[notafantbh]

Almost a million subs already, how fast this channel has grown in the last year

[GforceMI]

Looks to me that the Sabrent SSD cloner can only handle cloning similar sized drives, unlike Acronis True Image which can resize/expand/shrink the target drive partition while cloning the source drive partition image, I bet if you used a new non Xbox SSD that's the exact same size it would work.

[MIKEY]

First time witnessing a tear down of the Series X — it’s definitely more cumbersome to take apart & put back together than what was implied in that Austin Evans Xbox “behind the scenes” pre-production preview video we got to see about 12 months ago. 😂😂

[MikeeVee]

Ahh, Friday, the best day of the week. I always look forward to these videos every week.

[david]

I do have to say it's nice that PS5 has the additional storage readily available(whenever they update it to work) and won't have to use a proprietary piece of hardware.

[Jortiboomboxvideos]

In a follow up video if you make one, can you clone the series s ssd onto a series x ssd to see if we can upgrade the storage? Since the series s ssd is only 512gb, you will create the world's first 1tb series s if it works

[Disrek]

You should have cloned the 512gb xss ssd to a 1tb xsx ssd and check if that works

[ShamblerDK]

Those cloners are dependent on the target disk being equal to or larger than the source disk. SSDs from different brands will have small variations in available space thus in a lot of situations they'll "break" the functionality of the cloning tool.