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Question About Memory

  • 24-03-2011 11:48am
    #1
    Motley Crue
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,382 ✭✭✭


    OK, so I have a standard XBox360 Arcade Unit and I'd like to add some memory to it. Obviously it just has the built in 258MB but I was looking for an inexpensive method to store game demo's and add ons - any advice?


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  • #2
    nicklauski
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,789 ✭✭✭nicklauski


    Fairly sure you could use an external hard drive on it to a maixmum of 16gig. So if you had a hard drive knocking around it could be done that way.

    I'm open to correction on this though.

    I have a HD plugged into mine most days and when selecting storage device the xbox hd shows up aswell as the external.

    Is it an old model xbox? with the big hard drive?


  • #3
    mcgovern
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,267 ✭✭✭mcgovern


    You can use a 16GB USB stick if you've got the latest update, that would probably be the cheapest method. Or you could get one of the old 20GB drives new for about €30.


  • #4
    TheDoc
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,137 ✭✭✭✭TheDoc


    Got my new Xbox360S on Tuesday, and as someone here corrected me last week, my 500GB hard drive was fully recognised, as 500gb.

    However I'm using this for media storage to watch movies etc, not for game files.

    I'd say pickup a 60GB Hard drive, cheap as chips and plenty of storage.


  • #5
    ShadowHearth
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,929 ✭✭✭✭ShadowHearth


    TheDoc wrote: »
    Got my new Xbox360S on Tuesday, and as someone here corrected me last week, my 500GB hard drive was fully recognised, as 500gb.

    However I'm using this for media storage to watch movies etc, not for game files.

    I'd say pickup a 60GB Hard drive, cheap as chips and plenty of storage.

    Is that external? Does xbox recognises all of the silly formats?


  • #6
    DisasterIRL
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 616 ✭✭✭DisasterIRL


    As far as I know it only recognizes FAT32 formats.(What most externals are set up as)

    Also you can set up your usb as a place to save games and the like, but you have to format it to xbox's format. Not sure on what the max capacity is on that though


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  • #7
    D3UC3 J3
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 215 ✭✭D3UC3 J3


    DisasterIRL wrote: »
    As far as I know it only recognizes FAT32 formats.(What most externals are set up as)

    Also you can set up your usb as a place to save games and the like, but you have to format it to xbox's format. Not sure on what the max capacity is on that though

    16GB of usable storage for Xbox 360 data per device.

    So no matter how big your HDD / USB key is, the XBox 360 will only let you use 16GB for Save Data / Gamertags / DLC etc.

    The device will show up as xxxGB though!

    Also you can only use up to 2 devices for Xbox 360 data storage. Even though there are more USB ports on the new 250GB and 4GB consoles.

    SO 32GB MAX!

    SFTHM --> http://www.xbox.com/en-US/storage


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