250GB Hard Drives now sold seperately

ShaneU

£67 on amazon from April 16th http://www.amazon.co.uk/Microsoft-Hard-Drive-250GB/dp/B003D3N7T2/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&s=videogames&qid=1269368206&sr=8-5

Seems to be cheaper than the 120gb drive? comes with a transfer cable as well.

Raze_them_all

Excellent need to upgrade badle only have a 20gig!

slave1

Why waste your money?

Hard Drive ~ £37 - delivery less than a week
Case $9.81 - delivery in around two weeks

Flash the hard drive
Tutorial here if you're stuck

Captain Chaos

slave1 wrote: »

Why waste your money?

Hard Drive ~ £37 - delivery less than a week
Case $9.81 - delivery in around two weeks

Flash the hard drive
Tutorial here if you're stuck

MS released an update so that can no longer be done, unless you go back to the older firmware but then you can't use Live. Only MS hard drives will work now as far as I know.

slave1

well I won't be going on Live anyhow so okay for me

ShaneU

slave1 wrote: »

Why waste your money?

Hard Drive ~ £37 - delivery less than a week
Case $9.81 - delivery in around two weeks

Flash the hard drive
Tutorial here if you're stuck

Step 5, get banned from xbox live.

corcaigh07

very tempting, about time prices came down. if i dont get this, at least it might bring down the prices of new and used 120gb HD.

spooky donkey

Well im about 40 gig into my 120 drive and it had tons of things I could delete if i was bothered so I would not bother unless i was close to the 100 gig of used space on my drive.

mailrewop

don't forget about the rumored update coming this spring that will allow you to use a 16gb memory stick to store your data.

weeder

that will work on all firmware and you wont get banned

JD1763

They won't ship the hard drive to Ireland :mad:

docentore

weeder wrote: »

that will work on all firmware and you wont get banned

+1, confirmed on maaaaaany consoles. They work on live without the problems.
Its Datel memory devices that they blocked

ShiverinEskimo

Save yourself a tenner and buy direct from www.7dayshop.com

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=108513

Denisoftus

That's a bit funny

7dayshop Price £69.99
UK RRP £34.99
Your Saving £-35.00

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Save yourself a tenner and buy direct from www.7dayshop.com

http://www.7dayshop.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=108513

fifth

There is no way the UK RRP is £34.99. £69.99's a good price, I upgraded before christmas to 120GB for around €50.

ShiverinEskimo

I'd imagine they left out the 1 - knowing MS it will retail at £134.99.

Ravage1616

I may pick this up myself! Been using the 20 gig for way to long now!

Raze_them_all

Ravage1616 wrote: »

I may pick this up myself! Been using the 20 gig for way to long now!

lazy kilkenny ppl behind the times!

VinLieger

Ravage1616 wrote: »

I may pick this up myself! Been using the 20 gig for way to long now!

Same although i have an excuse cus i have the Halo 3 xbox and the hardrive is all orangey green and goes with my console

00sully

question guys, if I buy the 250gb hd for my current console, can I then use the old 20gb hd with a new arcade? or will it involve some tomfoolery to get going?

also, is there a chance in the future ms can detect the hack if you follow slave1 and docentore?

ShiverinEskimo

00sully wrote: »

question guys, if I buy the 250gb hd for my current console, can I then use the old 20gb hd with a new arcade? or will it involve some tomfoolery to get going?

also, is there a chance in the future ms can detect the hack if you follow slave1 and docentore?

The harddrives are transferable between consoles no problem. Your old 20GB can be used on any console, new or old as you see fit.

Not sure about Microsoft's ability to detect the rogue HDDs being recommended. My guess is no since they seem to be targetting rogue DVD drives and such which enable pirating of games.

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On another note Eurogamer reports that the RRP for the new 250GB drive is going to be £64.99 so look to see the price coming down closer to release date.

Amazon have now listed it under their own seller option at £74.99 - again I'd expect that to drop closer to release with the above story from Eurogamer filtering through to suppliers.

gtg60

ShiverinEskimo wrote: »

Amazon have now listed it under their own seller option at £74.99 - again I'd expect that to drop closer to release with the above story from Eurogamer filtering through to suppliers.

Going up all the time guys, now it's £79.99! Glad I have mine already