Xbox will soon let you use external USB drives larger than 16 TB

Microsoft has just released a new update for Xbox Insiders, and the folks in the invite-only Alpha-Skip Ahead Ring can use an external USB drive that is over the previous 16 TB capacity.
These drives will divide their storage space into multiple partitions and will look like separate devices in your storage list, the Redmond tech giant has explained. It is a good thing for Xbox players because most of the consoles come packed with either 1 TB or 500 GB of internal storage and most of the modern games take up at least 50 GB or more of space.
Prior to this update, Xbox had a limit of 16 TB on the size of USB 3.0 drives that could be connected to the console and no more than three external drives could be connected at the same time.
"Drives greater than 16TB that have already been formatted will be unaffected by this change and would need to be reformatted to take advantage of the updated support for larger drives," Microsoft notes.
From the update, Microsoft has also added a sale badge for games that are on sale and appear directly on your Home screen. It also comes with several system fixes, including an improvement in the Narrator readout in Settings, enhanced performance in media apps, and changes to text displayed in local languages.
This has been in conjunction with Microsoft's push for an Xbox without an Xbox experience or, as they put it, "Play Xbox without an Xbox."
And it’s not just some marketing speech, too. The Xbox Cloud Gaming service allows you to play Xbox games even after they leave the Game Pass, which means you can play them on your laptops, Android, or Apple phones, or even on your smart TV. That way, since everything is handled in the cloud, you won’t have to worry about storage or system requirements.

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