Xbox 360 Arcade - Adding a hard drive?

gnolan

Looking to get an XBox 360 Elite in Harvey Norman, but they're sold out. The other option i'm considering is getting the Arcade and (if possible) buying a hard drive for it. Is this possible? Could i just buy any regular internal hard drive and fit it into the xbox? Thanks

cython

You can add a hard drive to the arcade model alright, but not just any old drive. Microsoft sell the likes of this for people who bought the arcade and find that they need a hard drive, but to be honest if you have a hard drive in mind from day one you're probably better off buying the console with the drive included. There is a live starter pack for about 80-90 euro that places like Game have now, but it only has a 60GB hard drive for that price, like the recently discontinued premium model shipped with.

Some companies offer cheaper hard drive options, but with the recent blocking of third party memory units by MS, it's always possible that they will stop those drives from working too.

mise

You're definitely better off buying an elite over an arcade if you intend having a harddrive. Unless you're very lucky, the console and harddrive bought separately will always cost more.

If you're near a HMV, I saw that the Henry St shop is selling Elites for €199 as a special offer, so might be worth checking out

ipnface

Could get a 250GB one delivered for 75 dollars, not sure how reliable they are though:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30815

Vic Vinegar

ipnface wrote: »

Could get a 250GB one delivered for 75 dollars, not sure how reliable they are though:

http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.30815

They look dodge, they certainly aren't official MS anyway. They only sell 250gb HDs in console bundles afaik.

ipnface

They're Western Digital hard drives formatted to work with the 360, judging by the comments below it.

Vic Vinegar

ipnface wrote: »

They're Western Digital hard drives formatted to work with the 360, judging by the comments below it.

MS recently issued a patch to block use of 3rd party HDs, so it might not work, even if it does, there's no guarantee they won't release another patch that will render it useless. Not worth the risk imo.

ipnface

That patch only affects memory cards due to cheating. Not hard drives.

gnolan

Thanks everyone for the replies. Think i should go down the elite route to be safe so. After very much trawling through search results i will pose this question here:

What is the best price i can get for the Elite, 2 controllers and a game?

I see xtravision have the Elite + wireless entertainment pack + Fifa and 20 euro vouchers for 280 euro

Amazon have the Elite, 2 controllers, 2 games coming it at around 263 euro


Like i said, was in Harvey Norman's today and they're sold out, had the elite for 189 plus wireless pack for 29. Great deal

Vic Vinegar

ipnface wrote: »

That patch only affects memory cards due to cheating. Not hard drives.

Well by installing a 3rd party HD you are violating the terms of service so even if it's not blocked now, it could well be in the future.

jaykhunter

Bombleswizzum wrote: »

MS recently issued a patch to block use of 3rd party HDs, so it might not work, even if it does, there's no guarantee they won't release another patch that will render it useless. Not worth the risk imo.

Yeah, I'm of this opinion too. I'd be worried that MS do something completely c-nteriffic like that!

SD7792

gnolan wrote: »

Thanks everyone for the replies. Think i should go down the elite route to be safe so. After very much trawling through search results i will pose this question here:

What is the best price i can get for the Elite, 2 controllers and a game?

I see xtravision have the Elite + wireless entertainment pack + Fifa and 20 euro vouchers for 280 euro

Amazon have the Elite, 2 controllers, 2 games coming it at around 263 euro


Like i said, was in Harvey Norman's today and they're sold out, had the elite for 189 plus wireless pack for 29. Great deal

In Gamestop you can get Elite, Wireless Entertainment Pack and FIFA 09 for €249.99

gnolan

SD7792 wrote: »

In Gamestop you can get Elite, Wireless Entertainment Pack and FIFA 09 for €249.99

Is that FIFA 09 or FIFA 10?

SD7792

gnolan wrote: »

Is that FIFA 09 or FIFA 10?

My bad, FIFA 10

mukki

i got a core with a broken dvd-rom for free, and got a 20gig hard drive off ebay for €25 including p and p. and got a 32inch tv off adverts for e80





god i'm such a miser

irisheddie85

I got an Elite with 2 controllers and 4 games Pure, lego batman, Mirrors Edge and forza 3 for 239.99 in HMV

rgiller

I went the Arcade and hard drive route - although not purposefully, it was more that I didn't need the hard drive when I bought the console. Anyway, what I bought was an xbox live starter kit, which contains 60Gig HD, headset, 2m Ethernet cable and a 3 month live gold subsription. It was €80 from Argos. Add this to the arcade console and that's your total

gnolan

Thanks for the replies. Found the elite deal in harvey normans blanchardstown, so no need for the arcade + hard drive.