Why is the HDD in my 360 13gig?

Ultra_Extreme · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:31

is this normal? thought they were 20? mine says its 13Gb? err help?

DaveyD · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:33

It's normal.

There's a load of stuff already on it on separate partions. Don't think you can free it up very much though.

fragster · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:40

mine is 13gb too. It's normal.

There was 1gb of videos on it as well which I promptly deleted

FeFiDoh · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:51

i think most of the space u dont see is for all the live updates and stuff they will release

Kainz · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:51

It's normal. The os leaves some space aside for caches and other malarky.

fragster · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:00

R5Rich said:
i think most of the space u dont see is for all the live updates and stuff they will release

not sure it'll be used for this. Think the other 7gb is taken up with the OS and drivers and stuff (profiles, gamer pictures etc...) Could be wrong though.

thefranklin · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:12

On the original xbox, The 10 gig hard drive only had about 4.5 of usable space, yet 1.8 could be unlocked. They seem to throw extra partitions around for no apparant reason.

smit101 · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:57

The backward compatibilty with xbox games requires an emulator,apparently this requires a fair chunk of disc space.

AdWright · 10 Feb 2006 at 18:57

fragster said:
Think the other 7gb is taken up with the OS and drivers and stuff (profiles, gamer pictures etc...) Could be wrong though.

The HDD (or memory card) will store gamer profiles, saved games etc but the operating system and drivers must be in other memory, eg ROM. Think about it - how else would you be able to turn on your 360 without a hard disk/memory card in?

Boogle · 10 Feb 2006 at 19:15

In the Full Auto manual, the HD has '54GB Free' in one of the screenshots. I want a 60GB drive for my Xbox

MMOs will need a lot of HD space because by their very nature they need to release new content constantly. Based on FFXI, you'll only be able to fit two MMOs at most on the existing HD.

When/If WoW is announced for the 360, no doubt MS will suddenly announce a new larger HD. Hope they develop a way of transferring data from one HD to another.

Ultra_Extreme · 10 Feb 2006 at 19:28

Hmmm would like to see the inclusion of usb HDD support, stick a 200gigger on

DaveyD · 10 Feb 2006 at 19:33

Ultra_Extreme said:
Hmmm would like to see the inclusion of usb HDD support, stick a 200gigger on

I'm interested to see how MS play the HDD situation in the next year, as people are easily going to run out of space if they download all the latest demos, as demos are all weighing in a least 500MB. They need a compact HDD that'll fit nicely in the USB port at the back next to the wireless controller. Somehow.

Gaijin · 14 Feb 2006 at 01:37

Ultra_Extreme said:
is this normal? thought they were 20? mine says its 13Gb? err help?

I was expecting a rather cross email then! Tis true mate. Hope all is well

roboffer · 14 Feb 2006 at 08:48

DaveyD said:
I'm interested to see how MS play the HDD situation in the next year, as people are easily going to run out of space if they download all the latest demos, as demos are all weighing in a least 500MB. They need a compact HDD that'll fit nicely in the USB port at the back next to the wireless controller. Somehow.

If they release a new and larger one, Id imagine it would just replace the old one, as its detachable.

Firestar_3x · 14 Feb 2006 at 08:52

DaveyD said:
I'm interested to see how MS play the HDD situation in the next year, as people are easily going to run out of space if they download all the latest demos, as demos are all weighing in a least 500MB. They need a compact HDD that'll fit nicely in the USB port at the back next to the wireless controller. Somehow.

It would need to be a microdrive to be of any usable size and then it will flatten your controller battery's in a few hours + the access time would suck.

AdWright · 14 Feb 2006 at 09:06

Firestar_3x said:
It would need to be a microdrive to be of any usable size and then it will flatten your controller battery's in a few hours + the access time would suck.

I think that DaveyD meant that he thought a hard drive should be on the back of the console, not the controller, next to the (optional) wireless network adapter.