XBOX 360 Hard drive Question

[Jedi940]

I have a 360 with the small 10GB hard drive and was wondering, since it is only a 2.5 SATA notebook drive, could I buy a bigger one from newegg and drop it in as long as format it in FAT32 or is there some software that has to be on the drive for it to work properly?

 

[RagingBITCH]

No. And it's 20GB.

 

[gorcorps]

Nope, it has to be formatted a certain way and contain some sort of key to work with the console. There are ways to do it but it's quite the pain. You can find out all you need to do from google searches.

 

[Jedi940]

Thats what I was afraid of. I know it is 20GB but I only have 10.3 available to me. The rest is full of previews and demos and junk. . .

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Jedi940
Thats what I was afraid of. I know it is 20GB but I only have 10.3 available to me. The rest is full of previews and demos and junk. . .

Delete that stuff... you end up with 13 GB that you can use. Which still sucks, and it sucks that MS screws you on the hard drive, but unless you use their video service you really don't need a ton of disk space. I've never run into an issue, I just delete demos when I'm done with them.

You'd think Microsoft would want to encourage people to get bigger hard drives so they'd use the video service more.

 

[Eeezee]

I thought I heard that you can buy a bigger HDD from Microsoft, but it can't be just any old hard drive. I guess you'll just have to delete content if you start running out of room.

 

[RagingBITCH]

Originally posted by: Eeezee
I thought I heard that you can buy a bigger HDD from Microsoft, but it can't be just any old hard drive. I guess you'll just have to delete content if you start running out of room.

They do sell a 120GB drive that comes with the Elite...but like others said...don't see the point of it unless you DL a bunch of videos

 

[Scarpozzi]

I want to say the 120GB drive is about $160... Not really worth it unless you expect you'll be downloading arcade games and movies.

 

[Modeps]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I want to say the 120GB drive is about $160... Not really worth it unless you expect you'll be downloading arcade games and movies.

Its $180.

 

[erwos]

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I want to say the 120GB drive is about $160... Not really worth it unless you expect you'll be downloading arcade games and movies.

Just movies, really. Arcade games still have a 150mb limit, and most don't exceed 100mb. They won't be a significant impact on the drive unless you're downloading like 50 of them at a time.

On the plus side, I'm guessing Microsoft understands how dumb their hard drive policy was this generation (it didn't do wonderful things for video marketplace adoption!), and will take steps to remedy the situation for the next Xbox. The PS3 has proven very well that consumers can adjust fairly well to using more standard hardware (generic USB devices, Bluetooth, user-replaceable SATA HDDs). The Wii could also use some lessons in this area...

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: erwos

Originally posted by: Scarpozzi
I want to say the 120GB drive is about $160... Not really worth it unless you expect you'll be downloading arcade games and movies.

Just movies, really. Arcade games still have a 150mb limit, and most don't exceed 100mb. They won't be a significant impact on the drive unless you're downloading like 50 of them at a time.

On the plus side, I'm guessing Microsoft understands how dumb their hard drive policy was this generation (it didn't do wonderful things for video marketplace adoption!), and will take steps to remedy the situation for the next Xbox. The PS3 has proven very well that consumers can adjust fairly well to using more standard hardware (generic USB devices, Bluetooth, user-replaceable SATA HDDs). The Wii could also use some lessons in this area...

Not sure if they've learned or not. The reason the hard drive is so hard to replace is simple: They want to charge you 3 times as much for an "official" xbox 360 hard drive. The accessories market is a real money maker I suspect.

I agree that if they actually want anything to happen in their downloadable video market they would have been wise to have not artificially increased the entry cost by only offering a 20GB harddrive on the base model and then charging so much for the 120GB hard drive add on.

 

[CKDragon]

I've never done it, but there was talk before of being able to do-it-yourself upgrade to a very specific 120GB 2.5" drive (the same model that MS use in their retail drive). I have no idea what that does to your warranty or Live access, but if you're in dire need of a drive upgrade it may be worth researching. I'm sure it's cheaper than paying $180 MSRP for the Microsoft drive.