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Monday, March 13, 2006 4:54 PM by cesarmenendez

100 Gig Hard Drive?! Free!? In April!? Nope.

To answer this rumor getting a lot of steam: during April, will Xbox 360 will come bundled with a 100 gig hard drive? No. Not true. False. Here's the official statement:

We haven’t announced any additional hard drives for the Xbox 360 beyond the 20GB version available today.

Good times.

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Monday, March 13, 2006 10:29 PM by infernoxxx

any plans to do that???

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Monday, March 13, 2006 10:34 PM by John Porcaro

No plans to announce anything, either.

The Xbox 360 is modular, and of course there is the possibility that different hard drives will be available in the future. However, there are no current plans for such a device.

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Monday, March 13, 2006 11:00 PM by Matt Gerlach

I beat ya to the comment on Joystiq.com, John.

hehe.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:38 AM by James Neave

Problem with bigger hard drives is..

..how would you move eveything from your old xbox 360 hdd to the new one?

Which is why I'm not going to fill my drive with media, that's what big box servers are for!

J1M.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 8:01 AM by Brandon Reynolds

<quote>Problem with bigger hard drives is..

..how would you move eveything from your old xbox 360 hdd to the new one?
</quote>

Xplorer360 + 360GameSaves.com? ;)

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 10:59 AM by Alex Atkin UK

Yes, but if you are going to use Xplorer360 then you are most likely savvy enough to upgrade your own hard drive which is MUCH cheaper than the Microsoft offering. (although you can use it without dismantling your hard drive caddy now http://360sata.com/store/product_info.php?cPath=3_11&products_id=28)

It would also be interesting if someone developed the opposite of the above adapter so you could use a 3.5" SATA drive in an external caddy, although im not sure how many games cache to the hard drive so it would likely only speedup loading on backwards compatibility games.

I find it insane that they charge the same price for the 20GB hard drive that you can buy a 60GB drive for. Surely the outer casing isnt THAT expensive?

If I can get a broken drive on eBay or once my warranty runs out I plan to upgrade the drive myself.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 11:04 AM by Monty Burns

"If I can get a broken drive on eBay or once my warranty runs out I plan to upgrade the drive myself."

and probably, promptly be banned from Live! if its anything like previous Live!.

I'd be SERIOUSLY carefull doing this.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 12:48 PM by KFC

"Good times. "

How is having an overpriced 20GB hard drive Good Times? Sounds like bad times for the sucker consumer who pays the same price you can get a 80-120gb drive for.. I think I got a 20GB drive standard with my x286 back in 1989..

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 3:31 PM by Matt Gerlach

KFC, you can not use a 80-120GB HDD, the system will not recognize it as a system drive. it will just appear as a storage device for media.

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:27 PM by Oscar Claudio

True Guys, I understand Microsoft wants to protect from having media in the hard drive, and wants to avoid that the hard disk is used to store all kind of data....but lets take from here...20gb, its nothing really i have a couple of demos, and just have 6gb free. IT will be a question of time, but the market demands it already..everyone if upset with these, first we have a fantastic HW...then for last we are stucked when we want to stream data from the PC, Media center...is just not up to the task as you guys know...lets wait for Vista..and we can not store media in the hard drive...i l know i can buy a external drive..or a media center or a new kiss drive with massive hard disk...but guys we want convergency..we want Xbox to do everything. the Power is there....

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Tuesday, March 14, 2006 5:41 PM by cesarmenendez

Hey guys, also note: you can use most USB-compatible storage devices to access music or photos, much like you would plug in a portable music player or digital camera. But the Xbox 360 content: save games, profiles or content downloaded from Xbox Live Marketplace - that's gotta be stored on your HDD.

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Thursday, March 16, 2006 6:21 PM by Barry

Good! i got rather angry at the thought of this being true, that people loyal to MS and Xbox taking the risk to pre-order get totally screwed this early just wouldn't be right.

Bigger ones are needed i think, but giving people stuff for free over us is a big no-no ok MS ;)

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Friday, March 17, 2006 2:36 AM by XboxMods2877

I am waiting for a good mod chip before I get a 360 :)

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