Our friends over at Joystiq got the lowdown from Microsoft which proves Xbox 360 owners will soon be able to use external USB hard drives on their Xbox 360s. So don't fork over any dough for a shiny new HDD to slap on your 360 just yet. Because soon, you'll have all the storage you want on the cheap.
Check out the complete details from Joystiq below and the screens which show the external USB in action on the 360.:
Documentation obtained by Joystiq – and subsequently confirmed with two separate sources – reveals that "USB Mass Storage Device Support on Xbox 360" will soon be a reality. The document, authored by a senior software development engineer at Microsoft, states that due to "increased market penetration of high-capacity, high throughput USB mass storage devices, a 2010 Xbox 360 system update" will allow consumers to save and load game data from USB devices. The update is purportedly coming in Spring 2010.
Once the update occurs, Xbox 360 owners will be able to download Xbox Live Arcade games, Xbox Live Indie games, Games on Demand, DLC and Title Updates to the storage device. "USB storage devices may, however, have far greater memory capacity than MUs (at the date of writing, the largest MU is 512 MB), and may therefore support previously infeasible operations-such as installation of a full disc-based title." That's right, you can also store disc-based games to the USB device; however, it will require the disc to be in the tray for authentication, identical to the current functionality.
[Source: Joystiq]
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