Xbox 360 Gets 250 GB HDD Upgrade

[eklipz330]

well i spent $150 on my 150gb raptor back in '07...this seems like what the prices would have been back then

 

[captaincharisma]

[citation][nom]eklipz330[/nom]well i spent $150 on my 150gb raptor back in '07...this seems like what the prices would have been back then[/citation]

really? i didn't know every 150GB hard drive was the same price of the raptor in 2007.

 

[konjiki7]

This has to be another case of natural selections. The idiot consumer roaming in the wild spots shinny packaging with bigger numbers and pounces on the unsuspecting pray or so he thought....

Idiot consumer in reality only uses only 20gb out of his current 80gb...

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

I made my own 120 gig drive last spring by hacking it just like other people are saying. I also bought a broken hard drive on ebay literally for the case and am selling the original 20gig drive. I expect to get almost $30 minus shipping for it, so that brings the upgrade to about $30.

 

[Regulas]

In other news go out and buy any 2.5" bare bone SATA HD (up to 2TB) and upgrade your PS3.

 

[Guest]

I put at 640GB HD in my PS3 for $150... $170 seems like gouging, and even then, you still only have 250GB. The implication is that the PS3 becomes games + home media hub, the 360 stays a game machine.

Seems to me like Microsoft should be trying to make these upgrades as cheap and easy as possible to maximize the machines utility in taking advantage of the various online services and downloads.

 

[iboomer]

Yeah, right. I suppose I will just be a sheep and go and buy it. Um, on second thought, no I won't. I could certainly use it, but not at that price point. Just going to have to continue to store and stream off of my 2 TB windows machine.

 

[micky_lund]

in breaking news, you can add 2tb for that price to a PC....so say goodbye to consoles

 

[headscratcher]

[citation][nom]Regulas[/nom]In other news go out and buy any 2.5" bare bone SATA HD (up to 2TB) and upgrade your PS3.[/citation]
Even if they gave away 1000TB drives for free for the PS3, it'd still be a PS3. Which is fine, but the XBOX has a better library and better online gaming.

Will I buy it at that price? No. I do tend to install games on my hard-drive, so I would like the space; but for a reasonable price.

 

[Elementgreen]

How about a new GPU? I remember playing some newer titles on the 360 at a local convention recently, and I noticed frame stuttering and frame rate drops. I laughed, especially at all of the console kiddies who argued that headshots are a waste of time.

 

[ominous prime]

Just upgrade the console already, old tech is old.

 

[hakesterman]

Why not a 360GB Drive???? Better yet why not a real Hard Drive period, give us a Hard Drive format that
will allow us to get what ever size we want like we can do on a PS3( 500 Gig ). But no, Microsoft doesn't
want you to have flexibility without paying the great panda a big wad of cash first.

I'm just saying.....................

 

[touchdowntexas13]

This is simply ridiculous. That's all there is to it.

 

[captaincharisma]

but the XBOX has a better library and better online gaming.

2 years ago they did but all the only thing the xbox has now are halo squeals

PS3 + good PC = all you need

 

[footsoldier]

Typical M$ $tyle to make $ome $$$$

 

[razor512]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136387

prices as of 2/1/2010

250GB hard drive $49.99 (with a little modding and a lot of command line, you can upgrade the hard drive in your current xbox 360 enclosure

PS a 320GB 2.5 inch drive is $59.99

a 500GB 2.5 inch drive is $74.99

a 640GB 2.5 inch drive is $107.99

A 750GB 2.5 inch drive is $159.99

now on to 3.5 inch drives (microsoft could easily allow external drives via USB or even just add a link cable that can be connected to the xbox 360 drive bay, then connected to a bare hard drive that the user can just set on top of the console (it will be safe since either way, you wont be moving the console or knocking it around as if you do the console will most likely break before the hard drive does)

250GB 3.5 inch hard drive $44.99

320GB 3.5 inch hard drive $47.99

500GB 3.5 inch hard drive $54.99

640GB 3.5 inch hard drive $59.99

750GB 3.5 inch hard drive $69.99

1TB 3.5 inch hard drive $84.99

1.5TB 3.5 inch hard drive $109.99

2TB 3.5 inch hard drive $159.99

Microsoft's hard drive which is basically random brand hard drive inside of a cheap enclosure with a special adapter since the console it's self uses a propitiatory connector, cost $10 more than the largest single hard drive that money can buy

 

[FloKid]

Hmmm, it's a big drive after all, and it is specialized. So the price should be a little higher than a PC HD. The XBoX 360 would be replaced soon though. I just don't know who will fill up the whole drive by then. Kinda to much I think. Now if the drive would fit into the new gen of the Box, then it's prolly worth it.

 

[bigpoppastuke]

A hard drive thats worth about the same as the actual system(arcade). Great marketing plan microsoft!

 

[jlyu]

wow..does this mean they will be checking hdd if they're the real deal or wd hdd modded to a 360 one?..not good

to expensive..i payed maybe $60 for a western digital and used it as a upgrade..it was such a money saver and it worked

 

[blackmancer]

as always, microsoft (software that does little) in behind the 8 ball

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

[citation][nom]JLyu[/nom]wow..does this mean they will be checking hdd if they're the real deal or wd hdd modded to a 360 one?..not goodto expensive..i payed maybe $60 for a western digital and used it as a upgrade..it was such a money saver and it worked[/citation]

If you were able to do that you should understand that there is simply no way for them to be able to tell. It reports exactly the same as is expected, and functions exactly as expected.

 

[thlillyr]

Heck no. Expesialy since I just hack a WD scorpio Black 250 gig into my own Xbox in under 20 mins. Why pay more than 50$ for a 250 gig? I mean realy microsoft 2 tb caviar black dives cost 170$ so Forget you microsfot!!

Heres the walktrrhough I followed. It woks. http://digiex.net/computing-section/guides-tutorials/consoles/3152-xbox-360-how-hack-250gb-sata-drive-work-360-a.html

 

[miloo]

170 for a 250GB HDD, that's insane ~ i can easily get 1TB with 99 bucks~
but still someone will buy it ~ that's pretty odd~

 

[Guest]

Instructions on DIY 250gb hard drive flashing: http://digiex.net/downloads/download-center-2-0/consoles-homebrew/2713-xbox-360-250gb-hard-drive-security-sector-download-hddss-bin-hddss_250gb-bin.html

 

[TheDuke]

these proprietary hdds are sickening. they are way to overpriced