Another great Llamma installment goes through the somewhat simple process of setting up your own hard drive of choice to use with the Xbox 360. Because having the factory HD that comes with the premium console limits your downloadable content to material that can only be recieved through Xbox Live or ripped from a CD, some users might find this very useful if they want to be able to load it up with their own data (like a huge MP3 library).All you need is a hard drive and a USB 2.0 to ATA adapter. Check it out for more details.
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11-30-2005 @ 12:51PM
Keith said...
that didn't take long......
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11-30-2005 @ 1:02PM
Nicholas said...
Now, does this allow for more storage of things downloaded from Live or will Live only recognize it if it is an official HD?
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11-30-2005 @ 1:03PM
Nicholas said...
Better yet, will games that use the HD recognize this?
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11-30-2005 @ 1:04PM
Keith said...
that didn't take long......
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11-30-2005 @ 1:09PM
Scott said...
#3 and #4 - No and No. The only thing this additional HDD can do is be used to store pictures and music for playback through the 360. Live downloads will only go to the official HDD or a memory card.
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11-30-2005 @ 1:27PM
Nicholas said...
Complete CRAP! Con me into buying a $100 HD when I already have a perfectly good USB external drive. Oh well, wouldn't be Microsoft if it didn't get you to pay for "special features":)
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11-30-2005 @ 1:36PM
Edge of Blade said...
Ya, make sure you realize this is just turning an hard drive into a memory-stick-like device. It's so easy, you don't need this tutorial on how to do it if you are good with peripherals.
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11-30-2005 @ 1:43PM
Nick Spacek said...
Yeah, woah woah, people are getting the wrong idea about this. My experience is that the USB drives only show up under Media -> Music/Pictures -> Portable Device, not under System -> Memory. The 360 doesn't see anything but music and pictures on it (or won't acknowledge anything else anyways).
Nick
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11-30-2005 @ 1:46PM
quiksr20 said...
I wonder if you can just plug in an external drive. I have an 80 gig USB 2 Iomega drive collecting dust.
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11-30-2005 @ 1:56PM
Don Wilson said...
God damnit, you can't use it for saves? What good is it then.
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11-30-2005 @ 2:46PM
Nicholas said...
That's what I'm saying. From the sounds of it there's tons of content to download onto the hard drive. How is a measly 20GB going to do it for me? I'll be deleting stuff faster than I can watch/play it.
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11-30-2005 @ 3:29PM
irshliquor said...
you're supposed to buy multiple "official" hard drives if you want to download more content. don't you guys know anything?
anyhow, my friend has a 360 and his "official" 20gb hard drive shows up as 13 gb for some reason...is this normal?
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11-30-2005 @ 3:50PM
rapidblue said...
#12
the HDD come preloaded with a few big usless videos and a bunch of music
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11-30-2005 @ 4:02PM
GL said...
I wish that I could even find 360 hard drive at a store and not pay an arm and leg for one on eBay.
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11-30-2005 @ 4:54PM
Jon said...
This is a pretty stupid article that they linked to. Basically you should just use a USB hard disk. They make it sound like some sort of project you have to complete. Just buy a freakin USB hard drive. And no you can't do anything but read music, photo & video files. You CAN NOT write to the drive by any means through the 360.
While this may seem crappy, you all should be thanking MS for this. This would have been a huge gateway for Modders / Hackers to reak havoc. MS is trying to protect it's system from being compromised. So if you enjoy playing mod free Xbox Live games, this is great. If you are trying to run Linux or turn your 360 into a Myth PC, than this really sucks.
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11-30-2005 @ 4:55PM
Helo said...
it's not even a full 20GB you get to play with..More like around 13GB..the rest is reserved for the system.
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11-30-2005 @ 9:10PM
Don Wilson said...
You don't think hackers have already been trying to access data off of the MS-labeled harddrive?
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11-30-2005 @ 10:03PM
pathfinda said...
formatted a 250 GB drive, loaded in a usb 2.0 case. 360 sees it fine.
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12-01-2005 @ 7:53AM
pathfinda said...
formatted a 250 GB drive, loaded in a usb 2.0 case. 360 sees it fine.
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12-02-2005 @ 5:08PM
James said...
Note: Storage devices plugged into the USB port on Xbox 360 are READ-ONLY, meaning while this works great as a media storage device (but then so does the iPod), it won't store Save Games, or Live downloads, or anything else...
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