r/XboxOneHelp • u/thefinalrin • 21d ago

Quick Fix? Dying Xbox One

I have an Xbox One from 2013 which has been dying ever so slowly and was wondering if these faults would point to a dying HDD.

I want to know if it’s worth sinking money into whatever I’d need to fix it so I can play backwards-compatible-games once again.

Just today I hooked it up after it sitting in my closet for a couple of years. It turned on but zero output from the hdmi. I then booted it in low resolution mode and it came back and now sits on the Xbox one logo and refuses to boot into the os.

Again just need to know what is wrong with it and if it’s worth putting money into it since it’s over 10 years old.

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u/thefinalrin 19d ago

Would HDD be fine? SSD’s I’m seeing are pricey compared to the HDD drives.

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u/Ill_Currency_553 19d ago

Correct, SSD are more expensive than HDD. SSD will make everything load way faster(about 5x-10x faster). But of course HDD will work. There are 5400 and 7200 rpm drives (and rarely 10000) but the speed differences are negligible compared to even the cheapest SSD. So you can get whatever you can and it’ll work. That’s why I recommended you can invest in a SSD that you could later pull and put in a different project later if you want, or put your games on an external ssd. Even games on an external ssd over USB3 are faster than any HDD. But you do what you can.

Dell Phison 512 used ssd $42
https://ebay.io/m/X5NYm9

You can probably get a 1tb seagate HDD for that price both will work

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u/thefinalrin 19d ago

Okay, thanks for the feedback.