Xbox One X internal SSD upgrade possible? (cloning to 1tb ssd)

"Take a look a YouTube video from XFiX on how to create the XBOX ONE HDD (SSD).

There are two methods for Linux USB and for Windows.

Xbox One S and Xbox One X HDDs have the same structure.

I used this method for 2TB Samsung EVO SSD (MZ-75E2T0BW).

I created the Xbox One SSD (four partitions) in Windows 10, copy/pasted all files from the original drive into my SSD (System Support, System Update, Temp Content and User Content), replaced the drive in my Xbox One X (not Project Scorpio) and it is working just GREAT!

For HDD replacement just follow the Xbox One X teardown video here on ifixit.

14 screws T10 and 2 screws T9 (USB connector). No other tools are required."

"We can confirm the below:

Xbox One X ships with a standard laptop HDD. Regular laptop SATA SSD should work. Don’t know if the connector is 3.0 or 6.0 Gbps though.

It will not work by itself because Xbox One is not designed to let user swap HDD. Manual repartitioning and statically assigning Volume IDs required.

After that manual download of system files are required. Then the machine should recover itself. Check HDD swap tutorials on YouTube."

"You can easily clone it with a Mac or Linux machine. You will first need to identify the disk then run a command like

sudo dd if=/dev/disk1 of=/dev/disk2

disk1 is the Original Drive

disk2 is the new SSD

there are additional parameters to the command DD and you may want to read about it by typing

man dd

The dd command doesn't display any progress so just wait. It will copy all data (including the empty portion of the drive). If you accidentally used of=/dev/ (original Xbox drive) then your data is irrecoverable. So make sure you used the correct disk handles

If you're using Windows, you can download a virtual machine for Linux and make sure both drives are connected to the linux box (they may not mount because of NTFS partitions)"

Is the procces of replacing the HDD for an SSD different on the Scorpio edition, since it specifically mentioned in the 2nd post?

Can we use a m.2 2tb drive? & is there a connector PCB that will go to the SATA port? And will that have better speeds than the SSD?

"I moved mine to a Samsung 1TB SSD Evo drive which had cost me $450 when I bought it; probably not the most affordable option lol

I used the guides here to take it apart and what not;

And then used Clonezilla to do a direct clone bit to bit over and its insanely faster then any other xbox one x out there. My brothers brought over their xbox one s and x and couldnt even load up or in to games for up to a minute after I had already started playing lol"