Do you miss the HDD?
Noob Xbox arcade questions
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Do you miss the HDD?
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I bought a 20GB hard drive a few months later, and just got a 500GB external hard drive for media storage
I bought a 20GB hard drive a few months later, and just got a 500GB external hard drive for media storage
How much was the 20GB drive?
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Cant remember but they were pretty expensive back then, but these days you can get the 120GB drive for about the price i paid for my 20GB.
No you can't use a laptop drive of your own. Well, strictly speaking you can get a Western Digital BEVS drive and hack it but you still need the enclosure from another 360 drive to be able to do it, plus this may be a potential Xbox Live ban risk so it's not worth it if you ask me. You can pick up 120GB drives for around £50, or you should still be able to get a refurb 20GB HD with 3 months of Xbox Live straight from MS for £20.
You can use a USB drive but only for media playback. You cannot save/install games to anything other than a 360 hard drive or memory card, nor can you download demos to anything else.
All 360 consoles are identical* aside from bundled accessories and the colour of the casing, so yes, the hard drive port is still present on the Arcade.
* I'm aware that the new 360 Arcade Jasper-based motherboards have 256MB of onboard storage as opposed to a memory card and the Pro/Elite Jaspers only have the standard 16MB flash, but that's not a visible change on the outside
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I believe you can get one for less than 20 quid now. But you'll wish you'd gone for a 60gb or 120gb shortly after you got one.
I believe you can get one for less than 20 quid now. But you'll wish you'd gone for a 60gb or 120gb shortly after you got one.
Not sure what i would store on it tbh
Surely 20gb is enough for save games?
Can I download games rather than buy the discs?
Only the original Xbox 1 games, of which there is a VERY limited selection. You have to becareful with some of them as well though since some will only run @ 50hz.
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Just get a pro. For the extra 20 quid or so you are able to do so much more with the console.
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Just bought an xbox 360 for 35 inc
Sorry mate, just skimmed the thread, its half 2 and im half asleep
I might be able to sell you gears 2 LCE if a mate of mine doesnt want it.
Ill edit my post if the above is inappropriate.
Get as many games as you can now because they are very very cheap. Some top games about available for under 20 quid. Some off the top of my head are forza 2, pgr3 and 4, grid, gears1, halo 3, crackdown, saints row1/2, gta.
Maybe get the hd-dvd drive unless youve got a ps3. Theres some good films that are available for 3 quid.
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If you connect the HD-DVD drive to a PC it can do everything. I found it very handy when I got my Acer Aspire One netbook. 