•The Xbox 360 comes with 3 standard USB 2.0 ports. (2 on the front and 1
on the back)
The Xbox 360 added official support for using USB drives as a mean of
storing Xbox 360 files on April 6, 2010. Files are stored to the flash
drive by using files within a hidden folder (Root\Xbox360\) that use
the FATX file system.
Confirmed Facts
Can be used to add hard disk and get around DRM.
SEE: USB Hard Drive
Mod
Speculation
- iPod and standard USB flashdrives using the FAT(32)? Filesystem are
detected via the 360 media center.(Cannot read NTFS)
- The Xbox 360 seems to be able to read the HFS filesystem Mac
formatted iPods.
- It is unknown if the USB ports can access DMA but it is speculated
that the USB ports may be read-only. Such speculation is
questionable, as two-way communication is required to be able to
communicate with products. Instead, any read-only access control may
be implemented in the Dashboard, or write support may simply not
exist within the filesystem drivers. - This is most likely
impossible - There are no “slave initiated DMA” transactions as part
of the USB spec. Even if it does support USB OTG, and therefore can
act as a Slave, a driver [on the xbox] would still need to be
present for any usb endpoints to exist.
Category:Xbox360_Hardware