How big is the 360 hard drive REALLY?

[Arkaign]

That's just the thing, Dman, if they had selected a desktop drive, it would be :

(1)- CHEAPER
(2)- Tons more capacity (at lower price point)
(2a)- Resulting from this capacity, you could save TONS more music, video, add-ons, backward compatibility stubs, etc.
(3)- FASTER (probably 3x or more)

[devilman]

Could it be a power issue? Are 2.5" drives less draining perhaps?

[Arkaign]

Only a fraction of what the rest of the system is consuming. They're both 12v devices, and the x360 power supply is VERY capable

I think Nj hit the nail on the head : it was a factor of 'pretty design' winning out over practicality and performance.

[PS2Hawk]

th hard drive it 20 gigs, but you should know this...
xbox had a 10 gig hard drive but only 5 gig was for game saves.. by the way those 10 gigs were 8 and later on some people got lucky and got 10 gig in their xboxes.. so back to the point, the xbox hard drive had/has 3 partitions

X Y Z each is about 750 mb...
i think they have same sort of setup for 360
the hard drive is 20 but they have
X Y Z sorted out for Xbox Emulation and the some space
reserved for the 360 games...
so at the end you get abou t13~14 gigs on ur hands...

[Arkaign]

I'm really curious about something, and this won't make much sense unless you work on PCs a lot.

Step 1 : Locate another SATA laptop drive with the same FF, 9.5mm I believe, 100gb 7200rpm drives are available.

Step 2 : Remove 20gb tiny bastard hdd from the 360

Step 3 : Use Ghost 10.0 to image 20gb to 100gb drive, keeping various partitions proportionally identical.

Step 4 : Install 100gb drive in 360, boot, test.

Any word on hacks for 360 yet? Linux, divx/xvid playback?

[stuffedmonkey]

I'm really curious about something, and this won't make much sense unless you work on PCs a lot.

Step 1 : Locate another SATA laptop drive with the same FF, 9.5mm I believe, 100gb 7200rpm drives are available.

Step 2 : Remove 20gb tiny bastard hdd from the 360

Step 3 : Use Ghost 10.0 to image 20gb to 100gb drive, keeping various partitions proportionally identical.

Step 4 : Install 100gb drive in 360, boot, test.

Any word on hacks for 360 yet? Linux, divx/xvid playback?

It will only be a manner of weeks before people are doing this. It's almost the exact same procedure as upgrading a HD in a ReplayTV or Tivo...

[Arkaign]

I'm really curious about something, and this won't make much sense unless you work on PCs a lot.

Step 1 : Locate another SATA laptop drive with the same FF, 9.5mm I believe, 100gb 7200rpm drives are available.

Step 2 : Remove 20gb tiny bastard hdd from the 360

Step 3 : Use Ghost 10.0 to image 20gb to 100gb drive, keeping various partitions proportionally identical.

Step 4 : Install 100gb drive in 360, boot, test.

Any word on hacks for 360 yet? Linux, divx/xvid playback?

It will only be a manner of weeks before people are doing this. It's almost the exact same procedure as upgrading a HD in a ReplayTV or Tivo...

Bumpage. If anyone has expiramented with this or has a link to this info, please post