120gb still cost their weight in gold?
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You can pick them up on a popular auction site for around £55.
Or, you can bodge one yourself by buying a WD BEVS drive and obtaining a hard drive sector extracted from a 360 drive then running a utility to put the sector on the drive. This will cost you about £40, plus you have to sacrifice an existing 20GB drive to get the enclosure from. On top of that, using a 120GB drive's sector could lead to HDs being on Xbox Live with the same serial, therefore a potential ban risk. Hardly worth the effort to save £15 or so.
Or, you can bodge one yourself by buying a WD BEVS drive and obtaining a hard drive sector extracted from a 360 drive then running a utility to put the sector on the drive. This will cost you about £40, plus you have to sacrifice an existing 20GB drive to get the enclosure from. On top of that, using a 120GB drive's sector could lead to HDs being on Xbox Live with the same serial, therefore a potential ban risk. Hardly worth the effort to save £15 or so.
The RRP is £129.99 so you are actually getting quite a big discount at 89.99. Some places are selling these brand new for £59.99 (competitoir, obviously).
Wouldn't buy one from e-bay, I would be concerned people are doing what the guy above suggested with drive serials etc.
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Be careful with the cheap ones on ebay. A lot of them could be 'home' made jobs.
I recently got one for around £77 but the shop I got it from online hasn't got any stock right now. I was reluctant to spend that much but I thought I'd get in before the masses tried to get one for the update.
If I had to spend more than that I would just buy an elite and sell off all the bits I didnt need.
If I had to spend more than that I would just buy an elite and sell off all the bits I didnt need.
The 59.99 one is very rare and only in a few shops of that type.
It's only a £15 saving and you are at risk of getting the console banned from XBL.
It's not only a £15 saving because the cheapest I can find is £89.99 and to DIY it costs £35.
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As far as I understand you can do, but you'll only be able to use 20gb, well 13gb or whatever it is that's left.
I got mine from above mentioned for £89.99 but I get the VAT back so it was £76. My brother and dad got it for me for Christmas and they were happy it was a good deal. It also said it would be 2 - 3 weeks for dispatch but it is down as dispatching soon and I only ordered yesterday.
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Yep. A new one will have a migration cable.
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