Using FreeNAS storage pool for XBox One Games

[RandomTaskDave]

Hi All, new to here so apologies in advance if i say some newbie type things!

I have taken a look online about the above point and I cant really see anything more recent than 2016 relating to xbox, so thought i'd ask:

Bit about what setup I have:
I built myself earlier on in the year a FreeNAS server from an old HP Microserver (NL40 from memory with 8GB of RAM) with several TB's of storage available. I run FreeNAS off a bootable USB (to ensure I can maximize all disk space in the server). I mainly use it for Plex media sharing on my devices. I setup the Zraid to give me some level of resilience. I plan to setup Crashplan for a local backup in the future and plan to provision a vm on the disk pool in the future so i can bin off my ever aging laptop.

What i need advice on:
I have recently purchased an XBox One S with 500G storage. I have quickly learned that installing games pretty much swallows up the disk space pretty quickly. So it got me thinking...."Why cant I use my x TB's of space on my FreeNAS box for installing games on?"

Given the speed of gigabit NIC's are pretty fast, I am assuming that it being on the network rather than local wouldn't be an issue. I know that's a big assumption

If I wanted to attempt to use my FreeNAS storage pool for Xbox game installs, is it possible?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Many thanks in advance
Dave

 

[Ericloewe]

I'm pretty sure that no console supports that. The Xbox One does support installing to an external USB 3.0 hard drive, but not to a network share, as far as I am aware.

 

[Stux]

I don’t think you can use network mounts for game storage.

Get a larger external usb drive and plug that in. They make specifically branded Seagate “game drives” which I would recommend

https://www.seagate.com/au/en/consumer/play/game-drive-xbox/

 

[kdragon75]

Is there no way to emulate a USB mass storage device in FreeBSD ;)
https://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/usb-device-mode-storage.html
NOT SUPPORTED IN FreeNAS - DO NOT TRY

 

[Ericloewe]

It has several problems:

• FreeBSD 12, meaning bleeding edge
• Requires a block device, so performance can be sucky
• Requires hardware support, which is mostly found on ARM boards
• USB is decidedly less convenient than Ethernet

 

[Stux]

Wonder if you couldn’t use a pi like device to mount an iscsi freenas share and provide it as a usb device to an Xbox...

Seems like a lot of bother to avoid purchasing a game drive ;)