Is the XBOX 360 Slim HD flash or mechanical?

magick · 11 Feb 2012 at 10:32

Went into a high street store and they had the 4gb and 250gb slim xbox 360 for sale. On the 250gb it said the hard drive was flash. I thought the 250gb HD was a normal mechanical one?

Vonhelmet · 11 Feb 2012 at 10:41

Flash? The cost would be astronomical.

magick · 11 Feb 2012 at 10:50

Vonhelmet said:
Flash? The cost would be astronomical.

That's what I thought. But the manager insists it is a flash drive.

StonedPenguin · 11 Feb 2012 at 10:52

magick said:
That's what I thought. But the manager insists it is a flash drive.

He's talking poop.

magick · 11 Feb 2012 at 10:56

StonedPenguin said:
He's talking poop.

It was a she.

EDIT

And they actualy have it advertised on the wall as being flash.

Nismo · 11 Feb 2012 at 11:25

The 4GB has flash memory built into the board, but the 250GB is a mechanical HDD.

Skeeter · 11 Feb 2012 at 12:28

Nismo said:
The 4GB has flash memory built into the board, but the 250GB is a mechanical HDD.

This.

Just a case of whoever designed the sign not understanding (or not thinking it matters), and then whoever you spoke to in store having nothing other than what is written on the sign to go by, so therefore arguing blindly that it must be true.

The HDD's in all 360's are 2.5" mechanical drives. The 4GB does not have a HDD, only a 4GB flash chip on the board. The HDD slot is there, but empty.

ANN1H1LAT0R · 12 Feb 2012 at 18:00

Skeeter said:
This.

Just a case of whoever designed the sign not understanding (or not thinking it matters), and then whoever you spoke to in store having nothing other than what is written on the sign to go by, so therefore arguing blindly that it must be true.

The HDD's in all 360's are 2.5" mechanical drives. The 4GB does not have a HDD, only a 4GB flash chip on the board. The HDD slot is there, but empty.

This is 100% correct.

Now go buy the 250Gig version, take photos of their posters that say Flash for the 250Gig and then report them to trading standards lol Is it Game by any chance? I would bet money it is haha

magick · 13 Feb 2012 at 11:38

Skeeter said:
This.

The HDD's in all 360's are 2.5" mechanical drives. The 4GB does not have a HDD, only a 4GB flash chip on the board. The HDD slot is there, but empty.

Do the 250/320gb models also come with flash onboard?

ANN1H1LAT0R said:
Is it Game by any chance? I would bet money it is haha

Yes.

ANN1H1LAT0R · 17 Feb 2012 at 20:41

magick said:
Do the 250/320gb models also come with flash onboard?

Yes.

They don't no. The only reason the 4Gig does is so you don't have a 4gig HDD on the side which would be stupid lol

And like I said Game far from shock me now a days lol. Used to work there and I know how bad they're becomming

mame · 17 Feb 2012 at 20:51

I've got one. It's a HDD and not flash. Actually, I see the 4gb version sold as having a 4gb HDD quite often. And also, I see mobile phones, MP3 players etc etc etc sold as having 16gb "memory" all the time.