Xbox 360 Hard Drive

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Just curious, does anyone know if theres a way of linking a normal or usb hard drive up to a 360? Im not really wanting to pay £50 for a 20gig hard drive, especially as thats £50 more than i paid for the console itself!
 
You can but only for backup purposes I think.

You need an official Hard Drive to actually 'use' with the 360.

If you got the console for "free" (phone deal for a guess) then fair play, but dont moan about then having to pay for a hard drive :p
 
Remember you're not paying for *just* a 20GB HDD, it enables you to download Live content, patches, updates, extras and all that, which you can't do with a USB HDD I'm afraid.
 
So the official stance is im not even supposed to think of using another hard drive? Ok then, only bought a memory card for now, il get a HDD the same time i buy into xbox live i guess.
 
badgermonkey said:
So the official stance is im not even supposed to think of using another hard drive?
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No think about it, you cant use another HDD.

Its not that much of a bigger deal, okay so £ for £ its a lot more than a standard HDD, but this isnt a standard HDD. Plus it means you can do a lot more with your 360 and enjoy it fully.

For starters theres the special casing and content that is pre-loaded. Small points you might say, but you can guarantee that is where some of your money goes.

Be honest, after getting the console for nowt, £50 isnt really a bank breaker is it?
 
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No, but add it with £20 for a game, the £20 for xbox live if i get that, £25 for a second controller and so on it DOES build up.
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But you are still around £200 up on everybody else! :p

Think of all those poor people who had to buy HDDs, games, Live subs AND a console as well!
 
Thing is aswell, you CAN attach a standard HDD to the Xbox. But if you're Xbox360 packs in, then I'd love to see the response from MS when they 'politely' refuse to fix your console because you've attached a 3rd party peripheral to it's hardware.

£50,£60,£70, whatever, is a lot for a 20Gb drive, but for that £50 you're getting...

A 20Gb SLIMLINE drive (so we're now talking slightly more than you're standard one!),
A nice sylised casing to protect it.
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I don't think it's that bad a deal to be honest.
 
i bought one a few months ago for my core system and that was when they were still reasonably hard to come by and still at the price of £70.

havin a memory card is ok, i got geometry wars and a few game saves on it, but since gettin the hard drive, things are jsut so much better. the fact i didnt have to remove geometry wars to try a diff arcade game is one of the major points :)

other point for me was bein able to play halo 2 finally. i never had an xbox so never played it till now :)

even though it is a lot of money, its easily worth it for the extra stuff it enables you to do compared to the memory card
 
Also something to think of.

A memory card costs almost 25. Thats for 64MB, for twice that, you get to have as many live games as you want (if you download all of them, it wont take much more than 300 MB or so I doubt) copy music to it, download demos, and videos, download game tip videos, have lots of free themes with the hard drive, xbox 1 emulation.

IMHO, I got a core first, and was so happy I got a HD. You would be mad if you didnt get one.
 
badgermonkey said:
Just curious, does anyone know if theres a way of linking a normal or usb hard drive up to a 360? Im not really wanting to pay £50 for a 20gig hard drive, especially as thats £50 more than i paid for the console itself!
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Thats disgraceful, complaining at spending £50 for a console you got for free.
 
badgermonkey said:
No, but add it with £20 for a game, the £20 for xbox live if i get that, £25 for a second controller and so on it DOES build up.
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Not the kind of thing to be posting on these forums I'm afraid.
Most people here will buy any game for £40 on the Xbox360, not only that, most bought a couple of wireless controllers (with charge kits) and then bought a £800 TV to go with it.

Whats £20 a game, it's nothing. I pay £40 for most of my games and I'm perfectly happy. Stop being cheap.
 
I'm allowed to be cheap, unlike SOME people here i have very limited funding and caant AFFORD to churn out cash. I have just lost my job and so I have £200 to get me through the summer (my parents pay for food and stuff).

Thats disgraceful, complaining at spending £50 for a console you got for free.
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No, as a matter of fact its not. As i said, its not *just* £50, i have to pay for at least one game, i have to buy memory card/hdd, have just had to buy myself a new tv as my old one broke the other day, it is certainly NOT disgraceful. I wasnt complaining, i wa pointing out that i would be hard pressded to afford it.
 
off topic slightly, but is there any plans for larger hard drives as 20gb is quite small when you only get 12gb to play with, and demos taking up to 1 gb of space.
 
There is a new device (XSATA interface) that has come out which allows you to "use" your PC's Hard drive as the 360 hard drive and so transfer files between each for back-ups etc.. Also means you can have a huge hard drive for storage.

As by the looks of things the device plugs into the top where the official HDD goes and then the cable runs to your PC and the 360 sees it as one of its storage devices.

;)
 
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