My Evolving 360 & 360 Purchase Moral included

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Here we go on my little story of my Ever evolving 360 & its included Moral :cool:

My 360 was first purchased as an Arcade from a High street cheap shop November 07 & is a Falcon, Yay to that I thought.
It came with the 256 memory card but as we all know that was never going to do the job so I purchased a 20 gig HD from M&M & slotted it on the side, Sweet I thought.
I gradually fell in Love with my 360 but it took a good 6 months & I am still a Regular PC gamer.
Then came the NXE & the flash little avatars & user interface & the ability to load games onto HD, Well my 360 is a Noisy **** but All the noise comes from the DVD drive, Once I loaded a game to HD my 360 is literally whisper quiet. **** this I thought I need a 60 kit. So using a 10 quid voucher I got a 60 kit for 50 quid which included a spare Ethernet cable(Love the Quality) a spare headset & 3 months live. Kreee was good enough to load me a transfer cable & within an hour or so all my data is swapped to my new 60 & I am up & running again fully sorted.
So now over a Year later I have a 60 gig 360 with half a dozen games installed that all play Whisper quiet from a Brand new HD :cool:

Moral of the story,

BUY A 60gig 360 to START WITH :mad: + :p:p:p
 
I ended up buying the 120GB HDD to replace my Xbox Premium's 20GB original. I feel dirty for paying £90 for a 120GB HDD but it's been worth it for the reduction in noise.

The only problem I've got now is that the clicking of the HDD, when playing a game installed on it, sounds exactly like the Gieger counter in Fallout 3. It's confused me a couple of times. :p
 
Clicking :confused:
My 20 didn't click & I didn't notice my 60 click either, If you have made me now hear the clicking that was already there that I didn't hear before then I am going to go Nutz :mad: + :D + :p
 
When I found 120GB drives mispriced at £70, I bought one for each of my 360's. I then sold each transfer cable for £20, and the 20GB drive for £30. So getting 2 x 120gb drives cost me a total of £70 :)
 
I started out with a Premium 20GB last year but sold it not long ago to upgrade to an Elite for the extra HDD space and the colour.
 
I just upgraded to a 60GB premium and am loving the silent games too. The avatars aren't that great but for all the other features i'm more than happy with the NXE, really like the dashboard inside the guide button. Thats awesome.
 
I started with the Premium 360 with 20gb hard drive. 2 weeks ago I got the Red Ring of Death and I got the hole lot exchanged for a nex 360 with a 60gb hard drive.

Happy days
 
Tunney said:
I ended up buying the 120GB HDD to replace my Xbox Premium's 20GB original. I feel dirty for paying £90 for a 120GB HDD but it's been worth it for the reduction in noise.

The only problem I've got now is that the clicking of the HDD, when playing a game installed on it, sounds exactly like the Gieger counter in Fallout 3. It's confused me a couple of times. :p
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click_of_death

Is what springs to mind, hard drives clicking is bad.
 
What would be cool is if future game discs had a small re-writeable partition to link the game to a console. thereby only allowing the game to be used on that console unless it is 'unlinked'.

That way we could play games installed without the disc?
I don't know if its possible though to have re-writeable and read only data on the same disc?

random thought!:p
 
Herojuana said:
What would be cool is if future game discs had a small re-writeable partition to link the game to a console. thereby only allowing the game to be used on that console unless it is 'unlinked'.

That way we could play games installed without the disc?
I don't know if its possible though to have re-writeable and read only data on the same disc?

random thought!:p
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How would that be cool? :confused: Seems totally pointless to me. If you buy a disk to use once and then it's a coaster.

Downloading games over PSN/XBL is the way forward tbh. Linked to your account, let any other profile on the machine play it provided the owner profile is present on the machine.
 
orderoftheflame said:
How would that be cool? :confused: Seems totally pointless to me. If you buy a disk to use once and then it's a coaster.

Downloading games over PSN/XBL is the way forward tbh. Linked to your account, let any other profile on the machine play it provided the owner profile is present on the machine.
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Nah, you have the ability to link and unlink the disc to your xbox. If the disc is linked to your xbox, it will not be playable on any other. The game could be used again on a different xbox by unlinking it.

But yeah maybe downloadable games is the way forward but I doubt MS would diminish their retail relationships so that people could play without discs
 
Herojuana said:
Nah, you have the ability to link and unlink the disc to your xbox. If the disc is linked to your xbox, it will not be playable on any other. The game could be used again on a different xbox by unlinking it.

But yeah maybe downloadable games is the way forward but I doubt MS would diminish their retail relationships so that people could play without discs
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Seems pointless to invest in new technology when a perfectly good solution already exists though. :confused:
 
Tunney said:
The only problem I've got now is that the clicking of the HDD, when playing a game installed on it, sounds exactly like the Gieger counter in Fallout 3. It's confused me a couple of times. :p
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Err I've used 5 or 6 different 360 drives and not one of them has clicked or made any audible access noise I'd say there's something up with yours :p
 
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