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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I never thought I'd be asking this question. I can't believe I'm asking this question. Anyway:

Is there anything special about the hard drive that comes with the Xbox 360? Can I just buy a SATA drive and stick it in a core system? Why else should I buy a non-Core system if I don't care about the DVI cable or the wireless controller?

SuperWes · Posted: Sun Sep 24, 2006 10:45 pm Post subject:

Yeah! The hard drive is proprietary. You can't use your own hard drive. Sorry! Bill's kids gotta eat!

-Wes
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

That's unsurprising, retarded, and disappointing.

The reason I ask is that if I buy a Japanese Xbox 360 to play Idolm@ster, the core system in Japan is coming bundled with N3 and a racing game, but I'd also need the hard drive.

Now I'm thinking I should go back to not buying one at all.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

But think of all the faceplates you'd be missing out on!
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

Okay so here's another question: The hard drive with the pro system is 20GB, but there's starting to be a lot of crap you can download from Live. My understanding is game demos are getting pretty big (up to 1gb each?), so are people running into capacity issues with their drives?

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Well, some of them do. But I have like 8 demos on my HD, about 10 movies, and 10 Live Arcade games. I could probably remove most of the movies and all but 1 of the demos and be happy. But I still have like 5 gigs left. I don't have any problems and I always have more than enough things I am willing to erase if I needed more room.
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SuperWes · Posted: Fri Oct 13, 2006 3:54 pm Post subject:

I ran into a few problems with space a while back, but I cleared off all of my mp3s and started streaming them from my computer to get a bit more room. I don't think you'll run into issues as long as you delete any demos you don't play anymore, but if you're going to be big into MMORPGs it might become a problem. I know Final Fantasy XI takes up something like 5 Gigs by itself (I'm not sure if some of the game is left on the disc or not), but generally if you get rid of stuff you don't want and stream non-game related files from a computer you shouldn't be too worried.

-Wes
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Nana Komatsu · weak sauce Joined: 17 Jul 2006 Posts: 1293

I guess that's good to know. Don't get me started on MP3 streaming, though.

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

I just use my iPod for mp3s on the 360
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-Robert E. Howard in a letter to a friend circa Decmber 1932

"There is no place in this enterprise for a rogue physicist!"