Upgrade To A Larger Hard Drive on 360

[stanners987]

Can you change the hard drive for the 360 for a larger one ?

20 Gb is okay but I would like more.

$100.00 for a 20gb drive !!

[slipknot666]

not at first but they'll probably come out with a bigger hard drive later on

[Fredster]

I dunno, maybe 3rd partys will make them, or Micro will cash in on people wating bigger

[Night Owl]

I actually read in a magazone that there will be bigger HD;s, but 20 is huge for game saves and stuff...

[Fredster]

I agree that it is big, but if im guessing that games will get bigger during the five-eight years that it is predicted to run for.

[tkd_guy]

For now, its more than enough unless you plan to put hundreds of pictures or your whole arsenal of a full iPod of music. Myself, I play to put maybe 50 songs at top for now, and no pictures, it's not necessary. So that leave me 19.5 gigabytes for Live and game saves.. more than enough..

[Fredster]

I was wondering if you can use the XBOX360 as a way of transfering music, photos etc, as it has a "big" harddrive.

[slipknot666]

they'll probably be a mod sonner or later that will let you use an 80 gb hard drive or something

[P Mack]

They will have larger hard drives. 20 is big enough for a console's needs (game saves, Live info etc.). They might make a 40, 80, 100 and so on.

[Fredster]

makes sense. Microsoft look to be going the right way about it; blocking off and "greater" comments from Sony and making there XBOX LIVE even better, though the NINTENDO REVOLUTION's free internet/wifi sevice does sound quite appeling

[tkd_guy]

Seriously people, the Xbox 360 didn't even come out yet?! Do we really need to be worrying about the size of the hard drive right now? I don't think so.. I'll be surprised if I fill it up halfway by the time spring comes.

[Diamond]

Yeah I'd be suprised if I ever came close to filling it up half way. 20 Gigs is a lot of memory. The Xbox's Hard drive is 10, and 2 is reserved for caching so 8 gigs. I know people that put tons of albums, save games, downloaded content from tons of games they owned and rented and I've never seen the block indicater change out of 50, 000+ blocks.

[jag1491]

well CoD2 alone is a 1MB file save. it adds up u know. just look on the cover.

A memory card now is like 8 MB

[Diamond]

Originally Posted by l TH3 GATMAN l

well CoD2 alone is a 1MB file save. it adds up u know. just look on the cover

So 1 game is a 1 MB save file, eh? I guess you're right. 1MB is a LOT (Not really). How many games do you expect to have at 1mb storage each? You do realize 1 Gig = 1000 MB's, right?

I hope so.

[P Mack]

Originally Posted by Diamond

So 1 game is a 1 MB save file, eh? I guess you're right. 1MB is a LOT (Not really). How many games do you expect to have at 1mb storage each? You do realize 1 Gig = 1000 MB's, right?

I hope so.

Your right. 20 gigs will be hard to fill up. Unless you port HL2 on your 360 like 5 times.

[XTREK]

Sounds like the 360 will be able to function as an IPTV set top box. So if you start downloading movies and tv shows 20G is pretty tiny. I think we'll see big hard drives (120MB+) in the not too distant future.

This is a good reason for the Core system. If people buy 360s to be a set top box they don't want to throw their money away on a bogus 20G drive.

For gaming the 20G is excellent.

[ace2cloud]

MS has said that eventually there will be larger hard drvie options, but only when they are needed. You don't need more than 20 GBs.

[tkd_guy]

Wait so I'm interested in this TV recording feature. How does it work? Like a Tivo?

[slipknot666]

nice sig ace2cloud

[XTREK]

IPTV on the 360 can work just like any DVR including a TIVO. Of course most people have limited bandwidth so reasonably good resolutions will require some downloading before watching. MS has not fully revealed their IPTV plans yet so we'll need to wait for the details.