gizmodo.com— Just when we started believing that the 20GB Xbox 360 drives were big enough to satisfy, along comes the best evidence yet of more spacious disk appendages.
Nov 7, 2006View in Crawl 4
LMAO @ M$ playing catch up now. All they cared about was getting the 360 out before the PS3,and now they're paying the price. HD DVD addon, bigger hard drive. What's next?
External drives don't show up as devices. They show up in media, because you can't save games and xbox live marketplace content to an external.Really you can upgrade your xbox 360 hard drive all you need it a T6 Torx screwdriver a new sata 2.5 hard drive and a copy of Norton Ghost. Hook up both hard drives to your pc as you would any normal sata drive, yes the drive is a standard 2.5" sata 150 notebook hard drive, only the interface between the xbox and the xbox hard drive case is proprietary. Once you have done this put it all back together and bam you have all the space you need for awhile.
Alright, I have a 160GB 3.5" Buffalo External Hard Drive that is formatted FAT32 which my PS3 recognizes easily and immediately. Why is it that my Xbox 360 cannot recognize it? I've checked under the Media section of the Xbox 360 Dashboard with no success. There is also no portable device listed in the System section under Memory. I've looked over this board and read about people mentioning that it reads flash drives; like my Secure Digital Card via a USB adapter - that works no problem. What is it about these external drives that makes it difficult to read on the Xbox 360? Some of you on this board are claiming that it works with ANY external drive. Could it be that it only recognizes certain drives and not all of them? Don't chew my head off, I'm just curious and I want to be able to access the same media that I can use on my PS3 on the 360. Help anyone?
The files system on the PS3 is different to that of the Xbox 360, in terms that it cannot read external hard drives bigger than 30gb (33gb to be precise). It is the same with div-x players with usb readers.
Apologies, upon investigation, the xbox360 does NOT support hard drives with more space than 20gb internally or externally. Until the new hard drive is released- and the new firmware upgrade for support of the NTFS file system , there will be nothing that can be done...
That's because many years ago hard drive vendors got together and decided to lie to us. The marketers decided to make 1MB 1000KB. Multiply that up and 1GB becomes 1000MB. In actuality 1MB is 1024KB and 1GB is 1024MB. So, a 120GB hard drive is actually 120,000MB. Divide that by 1024 and you get about 117GB. In the Xbox 360, you need 8GB for Xbox 1 compatibility which leaves with 109GB and then there is a partition 0 (swap space I think) which must use 2GB and that leaves you with 107gb.Any how, for info on how to upgrade your HDD cheap and transfer all your stuff, check out <a class="user" href="http://tech.redcat.us">http://tech.redcat.us</a>
xellossNov 7, 2006
I think its 70 GB Slovenian6474 because of formatting, and the reserved space for Cache, updates and Emulation for Xbox 1 games.
davidmackeyNov 7, 2006
LMAO @ M$ playing catch up now. All they cared about was getting the 360 out before the PS3,and now they're paying the price. HD DVD addon, bigger hard drive. What's next?
nexxauNov 8, 2006
Dev/test kits come with 60GB hard drives. Not sure if they have larger ones tho.
dealNov 12, 2006
100gb... but, I think an external drive would be much cheaper.
blueboiksNov 26, 2006
External drives don't show up as devices. They show up in media, because you can't save games and xbox live marketplace content to an external.Really you can upgrade your xbox 360 hard drive all you need it a T6 Torx screwdriver a new sata 2.5 hard drive and a copy of Norton Ghost. Hook up both hard drives to your pc as you would any normal sata drive, yes the drive is a standard 2.5" sata 150 notebook hard drive, only the interface between the xbox and the xbox hard drive case is proprietary. Once you have done this put it all back together and bam you have all the space you need for awhile.
wickedsteveDec 20, 2006
It was probably an 80 gig HD with a few gigs used. Who makes a 70 GB drive?
superfistMar 6, 2007
Alright, I have a 160GB 3.5" Buffalo External Hard Drive that is formatted FAT32 which my PS3 recognizes easily and immediately. Why is it that my Xbox 360 cannot recognize it? I've checked under the Media section of the Xbox 360 Dashboard with no success. There is also no portable device listed in the System section under Memory. I've looked over this board and read about people mentioning that it reads flash drives; like my Secure Digital Card via a USB adapter - that works no problem. What is it about these external drives that makes it difficult to read on the Xbox 360? Some of you on this board are claiming that it works with ANY external drive. Could it be that it only recognizes certain drives and not all of them? Don't chew my head off, I'm just curious and I want to be able to access the same media that I can use on my PS3 on the 360. Help anyone?
gcooldudeMay 9, 2007
Do I have to use Norton Ghost or can I just buy a new HD, slap it in the new case and not worry about getting my old saved data?
romega2683Jul 27, 2007
The files system on the PS3 is different to that of the Xbox 360, in terms that it cannot read external hard drives bigger than 30gb (33gb to be precise). It is the same with div-x players with usb readers.
romega2683Jul 27, 2007
Apologies, upon investigation, the xbox360 does NOT support hard drives with more space than 20gb internally or externally. Until the new hard drive is released- and the new firmware upgrade for support of the NTFS file system , there will be nothing that can be done...
tficastDec 17, 2008
That's because many years ago hard drive vendors got together and decided to lie to us. The marketers decided to make 1MB 1000KB. Multiply that up and 1GB becomes 1000MB. In actuality 1MB is 1024KB and 1GB is 1024MB. So, a 120GB hard drive is actually 120,000MB. Divide that by 1024 and you get about 117GB. In the Xbox 360, you need 8GB for Xbox 1 compatibility which leaves with 109GB and then there is a partition 0 (swap space I think) which must use 2GB and that leaves you with 107gb.Any how, for info on how to upgrade your HDD cheap and transfer all your stuff, check out <a class="user" href="http://tech.redcat.us">http://tech.redcat.us</a>