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Microsoft Xbox 360 60GB Live Starter Pack
$47.99 + $5 Shipping
Condition: New

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Nice reviews at Amazon

Looks interesting. I have personally purchased this before and unfortunately must say that the quality of the wired headset is not as up-to-par as that of the wireless headset. I'd purchase one of those if you buy this.

ATTENTION FOOLISH PEOPLE! Not an actual Xbox. The other day my friend almost spent $30 for a 4 GB Harddrive thinking it was the whole thing

I've seen those hard drives go for as much as $70 for JUST the hard drive. Good deal here!

$60 with lots of happy reviews over at woot's daddy site: Amazon.

I have an XBOX 360 60gb hard drive, and it's more than enough for all your music...you could swap this one in and use it to turn your TV into a music player.

Then again, these only work with the older XBOX 360s.

I've had a 4gb since launch and it has always been a pain to keep a balance of stuff on the HDD and trying to delete what I don't think I'll need again. Seems like a good deal and a good reason to upgrade.

Would be a sweeter deal with a transfer cable :P

Retail Site: http://www.provantage.com/microsoft-fkc-00001~7MSSX07Q.htm

Xbox 360 60GB LIVE Starter Pack Review

I'll pass. I remember buying a 250GB HDD for $49.99 a few months ago. I was lucky enough to sell my old 20GB HDD for $25.00.

Add an xbox360 and you got a deal

For this price you can get a 250Gb hard drive new at a lot of spots online...

Amazon has 250 for 74.99
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Hard-Drive-250GB-Slim/dp/B003C1VPEY

Woot did it for ~50 in december
http://www.woot.com/Blog/ViewEntry.aspx?Id=15659

My point being that this is a bad deal comparatively...

You'd be better off buying a 250GB

abramokids wrote:ATTENTION FOOLISH PEOPLE! Not an actual Xbox. The other day my friend almost spent $30 for a 4 GB Harddrive thinking it was the whole thing

They'd have to be semi-Lamuellan to make that mistake...I won't speculate about your friend...

new egg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16874103118

Just a heads up, this hard drive will not work with the new 'slim' Xbox 360.

I don't want to start a console fight, but my PS3 has personally killed four 360s in single combat and I expect that this questionably valuable Woot deal won't save your measly console should it come to war. What is a 360, but a miserable little pile of secrets? But enough talk. Have at you!

Technically, this hard drive is not compatible with the new "slim" Xbox 360 model. However, the actual drive is compatible it's just that the case that the drive is in will not fit into the HDD enclosure on the Xbox Slim.

You can resolve this by (carefully) breaking open the case and removing the drive and inserting it into a Slim, as shown in this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKnaixPCsns

parabolic wrote:I've had a 4gb since launch and it has always been a pain to keep a balance of stuff on the HDD and trying to delete what I don't think I'll need again. Seems like a good deal and a good reason to upgrade.

Would be a sweeter deal with a transfer cable :P

Wait for the 250 GB it was pretty much the same price a few months back.. that was a deal..

So, it's a headset and jump drive. Is it the subscription that makes it an XBOX starter kit? Or is it console specific?

UFSanity wrote:Just a heads up, this hard drive will not work with the new 'slim' Xbox 360.

Quoting this to provide emphasis.

Thanks Woot, that writeup made up for what you did for April Fools.

This is actually a really great deal. Xbox live now cost $9.99 a month. So with the 3 months xbox live card thats worth $30.00 alone. Pretty much your getting a 60 gig hdd and a Headset for around $20.00. Thats a Great deal in my book !!

jlgomez wrote:Wait for the 250 GB it was pretty much the same price a few months back.. that was a deal..

THe refurb 250gb that were on here will likely not return for some time...they probably were so cheap with the launch of the slim...supply vs demand...now they are back up in price...this isn't a terrible deal tonight/this morning...but I would look elsewhere if serious about filespace

Doesnt work w/ the latest hardware, headset is poorly designed (I've gone through three of them [adult]) and the three months isnt that great when you see year subs for ~$40 on deals.woot on occasion. Thanks for putting some gaming stuff on here though.

Here's a Gamespot forum

thumperchick wrote:So, it's a headset and jump drive. Is it the subscription that makes it an XBOX starter kit? Or is it console specific?

The reason this exists basically is that in a previous SKU iteration of the Xbox 360 there were two models: the Xbox 360 "Arcade" which simply shipped with the machine, A/V and power cables, and a controller, and the more expensive "Pro" (or "Premium") which came with all of the aforementioned stuff along with a hard drive and a headset (initially a 20GB HDD and later a 60GB HDD).

And, to contradict all of the people saying "this doesn't work with the new Slim Xbox"... the drive does work, the case does not fit in the enclosure. The case is not needed, you can carefully remove it from the drive and carefully insert the drive into the HDD slot and it will function perfectly well.

So the "starter kit" was rolled out for people who bought the cheaper "Arcade" model and wanted all of the bells and whistles of the "Pro" model. If you bought the cheaper Xbox, you could buy the kit and thereby upgrade to the better model.

stevenlee212 wrote:This is actually a really great deal. Xbox live now cost $9.99 a month. So with the 3 months xbox live card thats worth $30.00 alone. Pretty much your getting a 60 gig hdd and a Headset for around $20.00. Thats a Great deal in my book !!

Actually its 60 bucks for a year...30 is over pricing it..its worth 15..still paying more than half the price of the 250 a few months ago on here

i'll pass cause woot once had the 250GB for $50 so there is no way i'll pay $48 for 60GB.

UFSanity wrote:Just a heads up, this hard drive will not work with the new 'slim' Xbox 360.

Actually, if you open up the hard drive shell in today's woot, you can CAREFULLY take out the hard drive, open up the door on your slim xbox and put this unit in. We did this with my friends xbox when it red ringed and 8 months later, it is still working flawlessly. I do advise putting some filler around the unit once it is in the slim though, as there is a bit of play.

UFSanity wrote:Just a heads up, this hard drive will not work with the new 'slim' Xbox 360.

devyanks90 wrote:Quoting this to provide emphasis.

quoting this to provide further emphasis.

stevenlee212 wrote:This is actually a really great deal. Xbox live now cost $9.99 a month. So with the 3 months xbox live card thats worth $30.00 alone. Pretty much your getting a 60 gig hdd and a Headset for around $20.00. Thats a Great deal in my book !!

finalhour wrote:Actually its 60 bucks for a year...30 is over pricing it..its worth 15..still paying more than half the price of the 250 a few months ago on here

The 3 Month Cards sell for $25 in stores. Not $30 or $15.

We have what I think is a 20GB on our Xbox (System info says 13.9GB). Is there a way to transfer the info on that to a new hard drive?

Don't know, would have to do some research, but when a Xbox gets banned, say it was running the jtag or whatever, does a new hd solve that problem, along with a new home/ip address, or is it something inside the xbox?

finalhour wrote:Actually its 60 bucks for a year...30 is over pricing it..its worth 15..still paying more than half the price of the 250 a few months ago on here

If you pay $9.99 a month .. then its $120.00 a year. Thats if you let Xbox live automatically draft it every month and not buy a year xbox live card

in for one. Still have the 4 gb hd on my 360, ridiculously small.

mattace wrote:Actually, if you open up the hard drive shell in today's woot, you can CAREFULLY take out the hard drive, open up the door on your slim xbox and put this unit in. We did this with my friends xbox when it red ringed and 8 months later, it is still working flawlessly. I do advise putting some filler around the unit once it is in the slim though, as there is a bit of play.

Quoting this to provide emphasis to countermand the emphasis provided by the quoting of the (misleading) claim that it won't work in the Slim Xbox 360.

jrsquonk wrote:We have what I think is a 20GB on our Xbox (System info says 13.9GB). Is there a way to transfer the info on that to a new hard drive?

They sell a transfer cable. You plug one end into the drive you're transfering to and another into a port in the back of the Xbox and you run some transfer software that comes on a CD that's packaged with the cable. They're about $6-$7.