Recycling Two XBox One Consoles into a 10 GB USB Flash Drive
A project has successfully recycled two Xbox One consoles into a 10 GB USB flash drive. The process involved extracting eMMC chips and integrating them with a controller to create a functional storage device. This innovative recycling effort highlights the potential for repurposing older technology amidst increasing demand for RAM and storage solutions.
- ▪The project was led by Chase Fournier, who repurposed mainboards from Xbox One S consoles.
- ▪Each console's eMMC chip provides 5 GB of storage, resulting in a total of 10 GB after combining them.
- ▪The USB drive achieved read speeds of about 140 MB/s and write speeds of 64 MB/s, suitable for smaller files.
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Recycling Two XBox One Consoles Into A 10 GB USB Flash Drive No comments by: Maya Posch May 28, 2026 Title: Copy Short Link: Copy Amidst the ongoing RAM & storage apocalypses, Mad Max-esque scenes are unsurprisingly developing, with the eMMC recycling project by [Chase Fournier] from a pair of XBox One S (‘XBone’) mainboards being just one more example. These mainboards come equipped with a 5 GB eMMC chip installed, alongside 8 GB of DDR3. Removing the eMMC chips isn’t that complicated and after some reballing fun the chips were both installed on a carrier board with a Norelsys NS1081 controller IC. This provides a USB 3.0 interface and can connect to up to four SD or eMMC memories, with here just two channels used.
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