Any sign of bigger hard drives?

Chris · February 25th, 2006, 04:04

Any information at all?

Rival24 · February 25th, 2006, 08:44

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Originally Posted by Chris

Any information at all?

Nope, not as far as i know...

Chris · February 25th, 2006, 09:33

Seems like we're going to HAVE to have one.

Curry · February 25th, 2006, 14:11

All I know is 40Gb and 80Gb models are expected this year.

etalien · February 28th, 2006, 23:58

And all I know is that people owning a Premium system are NOT going to buy those with 3 nice downloads at marketplace

Chris · March 1st, 2006, 05:12

Unless XBox Live integrates what you've already purchased with a new hard drive. I think they could do something.

Curry · March 1st, 2006, 11:21

For what it's worth, the system remembers all your purchases so you can always re-download all your Arcade games etc.

But I suspect there will be some facility for copying data easily between different HD's, possibly via the Kiosks in shops.

cybermans · March 5th, 2006, 00:33

save games you can move by using a memory card.

the rumor goes that on E3 new harddrives will be announced.

Curry · March 5th, 2006, 00:53

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Originally Posted by cybermans

save games you can move by using a memory card.

But you can hardly expect me to buy a $40 memory card just so I can transfer my data from 20Gb HD to a new 40Gb HD, that'd be quite insane

Rival24 · March 5th, 2006, 01:04

That's why we have this:
http://www.xboxic.com/news/202

TRIGGER M4N · March 5th, 2006, 21:05

Or, they may release a USB cable that connects to the 40gb HDD and the 360 machine, then do it straight through the console. It's just a thought...

Chris · March 5th, 2006, 23:47

I still haven't tried to hook a hard drive to it.

Nino · March 6th, 2006, 13:08

I still don't see any reason to upgrade to a bigger hard-drive. When my HD gets full (never happened) I'll just delete old demo's and trailers. There's always enough space for some demo's and all you saves...

Curry · March 6th, 2006, 14:21

I've still got 4Gb of demo's on my HD I never bothered to delete yet.

Chris · March 6th, 2006, 18:35

You also have to consider that you start with 13 gigs, not 20, right out of the box.

Plus, what if you want to keep all your demos when you take your xbox to somewhere that doesn't have broadband to redownload everything? Or if you've got a lot of .mp3s saved onto your xbox. Maybe we don't need 80gigs, but i still think we need a little more than 13. Especially after some time.

Curry · March 10th, 2006, 12:34

Just noticed this topic is in 'Xbox Hardware'. Moving to X360 hardware

Studley · March 10th, 2006, 17:05

Yeah, I noticed that a while back

The only thing that can be said for the "13GB out of the box" thing - isn't there a rumour going round that a future dashboard release could free up some of this space? I'm sure someone can find me a link to the speculation!

Curry · March 10th, 2006, 17:10

I never heard that rumor, and don't believe it either. The 7Gb is reserved for caching, backwards compatibility, caching, patches and updates and caching. And some for caching too, since that's one of the most important advantage sof an HD, and they'd be nuts to compromise that.

etalien · March 10th, 2006, 18:10

Some say most of the 7 GB is used for the music database (titles and stuff like that). However, i don't get that, cause new music keeps coming out, right?

Rival24 · March 10th, 2006, 18:14

The only thing i heard was that 7GB was used for system stuff, caching and xbox1 games.

Curry · March 11th, 2006, 17:40

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Originally Posted by etalien

Some say most of the 7 GB is used for the music database (titles and stuff like that). However, i don't get that, cause new music keeps coming out, right?

Sounds like BS to me. No reason not to fetch that from CDDB directly.

etalien · March 11th, 2006, 22:05

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Originally Posted by Curry

Sounds like BS to me. No reason not to fetch that from CDDB directly.

Then it wouldn't work when your not signed in to Live right?

Curry · March 11th, 2006, 22:21

Yeah but on the other hand I don't want to know how big the CDDB databases are. I somehow don't think they'd fit a 20Gb drive, and actually only including a limited number of titles which never updates would be even more pointless.

Chris · March 12th, 2006, 02:52

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Originally Posted by Curry

I never heard that rumor, and don't believe it either. The 7Gb is reserved for caching, backwards compatibility, caching, patches and updates and caching. And some for caching too, since that's one of the most important advantage sof an HD, and they'd be nuts to compromise that.

I think this is the best explanation.

amjadabbas · March 18th, 2006, 05:07

microsoft is already losing money on every unit they're selling...i don think they want more loss!!
even if it's true then none of us is gonna be happy wid that coz that upgrade wud only be for new buyers, rite??

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