I have a 4gb XBox 360. Do i need this drive?

dh4645 wrote:so europe only gets a 90 day warranty?

i dont get it.

i'm not buying any, but i'm sure others want to know

Because the International/European warranty isn't good inside the US, I believe. Only in certain countries.

EDIT: Actually I just found out that Xbox accessories only have a 90 day warranty. So that answers that.

I just ordered two of these and have never ordered from woot before. Can anyone tell me if the odds are pretty good that these items are actually in stock at this low of a price?. Also, can you tell me how long shipping usually takes?
Thanks

ttv1566 wrote:No you cannot. This is only compatible with the first few generations of xbox 360. The new slim models use a different connection spot and are actually built smaller.

No offense, but this is incorrect.

You can take it out of the casing and put it into the new Slim. They have youtube videos and instructions on how to do this. It will be "loose" in the Slim's hard drive bay so either buy a case off of Dealextreme or "customize" it so it doesn't move around.

Warranty will be voided on the HARD DRIVE ONLY. Do so at your own risk. etc etc.

YES, YES, YES! Thank you Woot! You just made my Christmas.
I was going to use my Christmas money to buy one of these at normal price. You just saved me a ton of money. Now to buy more games.

egonpax wrote:No offense, but this is incorrect.

You can take it out of the casing and put it into the new Slim. They have youtube videos and instructions on how to do this. It will be "loose" in the Slim's hard drive bay so either buy a case off of Dealextreme or "customize" it so it doesn't move around.

Warranty will be voided on the HARD DRIVE ONLY. Do so at your own risk. etc etc.

Look in here for the case
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.48653

Look in here for instructions
http://digiex.net/guides-reviews/console-guides/xbox-360-guides/3152-xbox-360-how-hack-250gb-sata-drive-work-xbox-360-xbox-360-slim.html

Magiciandude wrote:I don't know why, but I have this strange feeling that this is built to only work for the Xbox 360. I don't think it will work on my PC, and no...it's not compatible with your mac.

This is only for the previous Xbox 360 models, will not work with the slim model.

in for 1

dawnmcmd wrote:I just ordered two of these and have never ordered from woot before. Can anyone tell me if the odds are pretty good that these items are actually in stock at this low of a price?. Also, can you tell me how long shipping usually takes?
Thanks

Yes if your order went thru, your odds are almost 100% you will get what you ordered. Rarely there is a problem and you dont. As far as shipping time, it varies. I have experienced 1-3 weeks living in PA. but as few as 5 days. I'm not expecting by Christmas but It would be nice.

polishspartan22 wrote:At the risk of sounding jolly, will I be able to get the game data off my current hard drive when I replace it with this one?

Yes you can the included cable is for that purpose.

This is a VERY good price Best Buy sells this same product for $130. Not much better price on Amazon.

THIS DRIVE WILL NOT WORK WITH THE NEW XBox 360

Wow, this is one of the best Woots! I have wanted more than 20 GB in my HDD forever, good stuff!

Skizzz wrote:Look in here for the case
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.48653

Look in here for instructions
http://digiex.net/guides-reviews/console-guides/xbox-360-guides/3152-xbox-360-how-hack-250gb-sata-drive-work-xbox-360-xbox-360-slim.html

I would like to point out that one only needs to pay attention to the instructions talking about taking the drive apart. People won't need to run any programs to lock/unlock the hard drive to get it to run. All that is needed is to physically remove the hard drive.

If you have the rings of death, (3 red rings) will this take care of that?

tjrenegade wrote:Yes you can the included cable is for that purpose.

This is a VERY good price Best Buy sells this same product for $130. Not much better price on Amazon.

THIS DRIVE WILL NOT WORK WITH THE NEW XBox 360

It will work on the new xbox 360 if you take it apart and put it in a $9 enclosure.

Says "Arrives by Christmas" but at my order confirmation it says it'll ship in 5 days. Can I assume that's a default comment?

dliidlii wrote:NEW scroll down page of sellers
http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B000B6ML32/ref=sr_1_1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1292998208&sr=8-1&condition=new

Thats a 20G harddrive the Woot is a 250G.

Big difference.

token62 wrote:If you have the rings of death, (3 red rings) will this take care of that?

No, unless the HD is the problem, which is highly unlikely. I've only heard maybe 3 cases of bad harddrives.
The RROD is caused by the graphic chip separating from the board.

egonpax wrote:Because the International/European warranty isn't good inside the US, I believe. Only in certain countries.

Or it could be because MS has a whole sh*tload of these drives sitting in its warehouses, so somebody decided to unload them through woot.com at a special low price WITHOUT a manufacturer's warranty to completely write off the inventory on MS' books (no factory warranty means no costs later due to warranty service requests.)

Some companies just eat the cost of the unsold product and just destroy/bury the whole lot (read about the Atari 2600 ET Game Cartridges), luckily for us MS decided to throw us cheap ass "won't buy overpriced MS hard-drives at over 3x the bare drive price" pre-slim Xbox360 owners a bone.

Woot.com then decided to offer a 90-day warranty themselves (maybe not out of the goodness of their hearts, but maybe because of US consumer laws, but I'll go with "out of woot's desire to keep their customers happy" since I worship on the alter of "woot" and gladly drink their Koolaid.) for their loyal customers.

Don't forget that Microsoft sent out a free update awhile back that will let you use thumb drives and external hard drives too. Just sayin...

ianmarkowitz wrote:can you take the hard drive from this and put it in the new slim XBOX 360s?

yes a little googling says i can
basically transplant the drive into this
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.48653~r.53733725

I have the beginner console with the 512M internal memory. Once I install the drive, will I be able to transfer my profiles over to the drive or will I have to start over??
Thanks!!

punkjumpu wrote:Don't forget that Microsoft sent out a free update awhile back that will let you use thumb drives and external hard drives too. Just sayin...

Only 16gb per storage device. I would have a TON of USB and SD cards laying around.

whcodered wrote:Keep in mind that lots of the cheaper ones you can find,especially on eBay, aren't genuine. That is, they took a laptop hard drive and did all the dirty work to make it compatible with a 360. You can do this process yourself, but it requires the special cable, some software, and the know-how. Also, you won't get any kind of warranty with the ones on eBay.

These, however, are the "real thing." If you are on the edge because of cheaper knock offs on eBay, I would bite Woot's offering.

Also - let me tell you form first hand experience, the cheap ones from China aren't partitioned correctly, so you lose the backwards compatibility ability to play original xbox games.

Santeeruss wrote:I have the beginner console with the 512M internal memory. Once I install the drive, will I be able to transfer my profiles over to the drive or will I have to start over??
Thanks!!

Yes. You can move it from one to the other in the Xbox menus.

ianmarkowitz wrote:can you take the hard drive from this and put it in the new slim XBOX 360s?

Yes, but you'll have to disasseble the case and plug it in to the slot on the slim. You should also use some foam block to keep it stable as it will be narrower than the hole for the hard drive.

Rgeneral23 wrote:Yes if your order went thru, your odds are almost 100% you will get what you ordered. Rarely there is a problem and you dont. As far as shipping time, it varies. I have experienced 1-3 weeks living in PA. but as few as 5 days. I'm not expecting by Christmas but It would be nice.

Read the main page more carefully. It clearly states that it will arrive by Christmas.

bbf wrote:Or it could be because MS has a whole sh*tload of these drives sitting in its warehouses, so somebody decided to unload them through woot.com at a special low price WITHOUT a manufacturer's warranty to completely write off the inventory on MS' books (no factory warranty means no costs later due to warranty service requests.)

Some companies just eat the cost of the unsold product and just destroy/bury the whole lot (read about the Atari 2600 ET Game Cartridges), luckily for us MS decided to throw us cheap ass "won't buy overpriced MS hard-drives at over 3x the bare drive price" pre-slim Xbox360 owners a bone.

Woot.com then decided to offer a 90-day warranty themselves (maybe not out of the goodness of their hearts, but maybe because of US consumer laws, but I'll go with "out of woot's desire to keep their customers happy" since I worship on the alter of "woot" and gladly drink their Koolaid.) for their loyal customers.

^Or this. But I find it hard to believe Microsoft actually throwing consumers a bone... Maybe... just hard to believe.

I also edited my post to say that Xbox accessories only have a 90 day warranty anyways!

I'm in for 1...can't beat the price with the transfer kit included!

ttv1566 wrote:No you cannot. This is only compatible with the first few generations of xbox 360. The new slim models use a different connection spot and are actually built smaller.

Yes, you can. You WILL have to remove the case but the connector is the same. You should insert some foam blocks to keep it stable as the hole is larger than the "un-cased" hard drive. It does work perfectly well. See youtube for dozens and dozens and ....of examples.

whcodered wrote:Keep in mind that lots of the cheaper ones you can find,especially on eBay, aren't genuine. That is, they took a laptop hard drive and did all the dirty work to make it compatible with a 360. You can do this process yourself, but it requires the special cable, some software, and the know-how. Also, you won't get any kind of warranty with the ones on eBay.

These, however, are the "real thing." If you are on the edge because of cheaper knock offs on eBay, I would bite Woot's offering.

To be sure if it's real or not, look at the stickers on the bottom of the drive. They should look like the one in the WOOT! pic. the big one and the holographic one.
the knockoffs have some weird stickers that just say "XBOX 360 250gb hd" or something.

Is anyone having trouble ordering? I can not get through!

wickedd365 wrote:Yes. You can move it from one to the other in the Xbox menus.

Thank You!!!

M$ now gives you the option to install your games right on the hd so they load faster and you don't hear a disc spinning. You still need the original disc in the drive just to prove you own the game. I never tried it before since I only had a 20gb but I will now!

This is very tempting considering you can take it apart and connect the 2.5" drive inside directly to the SATA port on the new 360S consoles.

wisenekt wrote:Eh, since the new Xbox 360 came out, the use of the older hard drive is going to be significantly less. Oh well, if there is someone out there to buy it, I'm sure Woot will find them.

Better then the day before!

tjrenegade wrote:THIS DRIVE WILL NOT WORK WITH THE NEW XBox 360

I'll agree that this is an awesome price (in for 1!) but actually...

***THE DRIVE WILL WORK FOR 360 AND NEW 360-S***

No, not right out of the box, but if you do what has been mentioned here (remove the drive from the casing and plug in to new 360-S), it WILL work. You don't have to open the 360-S or do anything to void the warranty--the drive slot is accessible from the outside of it, with a clip-on door.

It WORKS because the hard drive is pre-loaded with firmware that only the Xbox 360 and 360-S recognize i.e. it is not for general computing use). The firmware, which basically tells the drive how to work and communicate, is designed only for a specific model of a specific manufacturer's hard drive (Western Digital Blue Scorpio, not sure of 250GB hdd model#). Although it is 'just' a 2.5" SATA drive, it, unlike any other regular 2.5" HDD on the market, has the proper firmware.

Yes, you 'could' do this yourself by buying the EXACT correct model# hdd, then use a pc to replace the hdd's firmware with 360 firmware (have to find it online), then boot it into DOS, and then put your old xbox hard drive's data on it; i.e. if you have 20GB now, it will take up 20GB on the drive, because this drive does not have any of the xbox 360/360-S software on it, so you are adding it...and then it 'should' work for you. Although home-mades and hong-kong specials alike, tend to have issues with using the entire drive (the cheap asian ones see the 250GB as a 120GB drive). And once you've wasted all the time, money, and effort to do all this, you'll realize that it would've been cheaper and easier to just buy this at woot!

This official xbox hdd being woot'd already has the proper firmware and software installed.

MS does some jolly things, but writing entirely new software and firmware for no real gain, is counter-intuitive if you understand computers...or if you just understand business.

The ONLY thing I am not sure of, is if the 360-S Specific Drives (new drives in new systems) are a faster speed than this one (5400rpm)...even if they are, it probably would not be noticeable to you.


I jumped on this b/c you simply WILL NOT FIND THIS CHEAPER, OR EVEN ANYWHERE NEAR THIS PRICE!.

WOOT!

Good deal...I've had a 20gb for years and constantly have to delete content to fit new demos that my son wants to download. I've refused to spend the retail price on one of these pretty much out of sheer principality; but this...this works. In for one.

For those thinking that eBay or amazon 3rd party sellers are offering comparable or better deals on this drive - THEY ARE NOT. I have been looking to upgrade my 20gb xbox hdd for over a year and the best deal I had seen on an actual Microsoft brand 250 hdd has been $120. The reason to get a genuine microsoft hdd is that it comes with a transfer cable, is correctly formatted and has a warranty. I've heard a lot of headache stories about buying fake drives. This is one of the best deals I've ever seen on woot.

If you have the red rings of death, this won't help, though you can remove your current hdd just to make absolutely sure. The RRoD are usually caused by internal hardware overheating.

Currently at least almost twice the price elsewhere:

$129.99 at Best Buy, Game Stop

$89.51 + $3.99 Amazon

sreeni81 wrote:I have a 4gb XBox 360. Do i need this drive?

do u have the original xbox 360 or the new slim... if its the original then yes.. if its slim find a compatibal drive and also new casing for the slim.. thats ur cheapest way go on youtube im sure there hundreds of demos on how to do it.