finalhour wrote:THe refurb 250gb that were on here will likely not return for some time...

Those weren't refurbished, they were new.

If you plan on taking the HDD out of the case to put it in your Slim you'll need Torx wrenches. I don't remember what size it was exactly though. T10 I think. I had to take mine out to put it in my Halo 3 Edition case.

froogle til you drop

Spacemonkey6401 wrote: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?

Each Xbox has an unique ID. Nothing you can change out will lift the ban.

NightGhost wrote:froogle til you drop

Limit of NightGhost's gaming knowledge

You actually CAN add these to the new Xbox Slim, if you're willing to take some tools to this one. Internally it is just a standard SATA driver, same as the slim.

Youtube is your best friend at finding this, you need a T6 and a T10 screwdriver, or some elbow grease and a nice hammer.

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.

DVvM wrote: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.

Quoting, emphasis etc. Instructions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKnaixPCsns

Stating again for emphasis that yes this drive does work with the slim model. Take it out of the shell and it plugs right in. Add some foam bits for stability.

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 !!

A Live (gold membership) is $60/year. Unless they took away a couple months and I missed it (60/12=5) $5.00/month.

Not really a great deal. It is $59.99 on Amazon with free shipping (if you have Prime).

stinger75 wrote:A Live (gold membership) is $60/year. Unless they took away a couple months and I missed it (60/12=5) $5.00/month.

let me rephrase my original comment... Xbox live cost $9.99 a month. If you let microsoft automatically draft it from your bank account every month and not buy a xbox live card then its $120.00 a year.

Sooo can you use your wireless to connect your 360 to the internet? or do you have to use the ethernet router?

No, I'm not in for one being that I don't own a 360, but I had to comment on how great the writeup was. Bravo woot writers, one of the best I've read in a while! Thanks for the laugh, it did its job 'to distract you from the crushing emptiness of your pathetic existence'.

NightGhost wrote:Here's a Gamespot forum

Thanks, but - Wow! - that discussion was from November 2008. Exactly how dusty are these kits?

Woot. You're killing me. I bought almost all of this yesterday. For more money.

RAARAHRHAAHGHH!

JRGold88 wrote:Sooo can you use your wireless to connect your 360 to the internet? or do you have to use the ethernet router?

Older models of the Xbox 360 (read: the ones that this hard drive is compatible with out of the box) do not have wireless capabilities. Microsoft sold a wireless adapter for a princely sum, but otherwise it needed to be plugged in to your router via a Cat5 cable. Network savvy users could use a second router in bridge mode as a substitute for Microsoft's very expensive wireless adapter.

The current model of the Xbox 360 (the "slim") has built-in wireless. That's the model that the case that encloses this hard drive will not fit in, though the drive itself is still compatible.

stevenlee212 wrote:let me rephrase my original comment... Xbox live cost $9.99 a month. If you let microsoft automatically draft it from your bank account every month and not buy a xbox live card then its $120.00 a year.

So if you pay too much for it, then you're... paying too much for it? Mmmkay.

You can auto-renew at the $60-a-year price just like if you pay every month. That's what most people who don't want to take the trouble to watch out for sales on cards do.

In any case, $30 is not the proper comparison for this deal because it's not the price you'd pay for a comparable service. If you buy three months up front, it's $25. If you pay by the year, it's $60 / 4 = $15. If you wait for sales on cards (Amazon currently has 12 months for $40) it's roughly $40 / 4 = $10.

Any of those figures ($25, $15, or $10) is an acceptable value comparison, depending on how a particular individual might go about buying a comparable service elsewhere. But there is no circumstance under which any right-thinking person would pay $30, UP FRONT, for three months of Live service. It's a false comparison.

journeyloaded wrote:Quoting, emphasis etc. Instructions: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKnaixPCsns

Quoting for further emphasis yet again..this HDD will NOT work with newer 'slim' XBox 360's UNLESS you tear open the casing and stick the 2.5" drive in the empty drive bay.

jlgomez wrote:Wow.. Not much of a deal when Amazon.. has it for $60 including shipping...

It's still cheaper here. Maybe it's not much of a deal, but it's the cheapest price online.

NightGhost wrote:Here's a Gamespot forum

I've been meaning to ask...do you see in my eyes the same fear that would take the heart of you?

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?

Any usb thumbdrive should work. Pop it in one in the front ports, go to system settings, find memory and copy the stuff you want to it. Change the hard drive over and copy onto new one. I think you have to format the usb drive for the 360(not sure, been a while) so id make sure no important documents are on it.

Psygnosis wrote:Take it out of the shell and it plugs right in. Add some foam bits for stability.

That sounds super smart!! Let's toss in some foam - an insulator - around something which generates heat and is susceptible to high temperatures.

While we're at it, why don't we wrap a towel completely around our 360 to keep the dust off it, making sure to cover the vents so we can keep the dust out of the insides.

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 !!

Give me $100 and I'll give you a 12 month live sub. Save you $20!!

Or you can go to Amazon right now and realize xbox live gold memberships for 1 year are standard $60, but Amazon has a special right now going for $40:
http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Month-Live-Gold-Card/dp/B0029LJIFG/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1301823611&sr=8-1

classclownbrian wrote: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.

You are correct, but, you can take the drive out of this enclosure and put it in the new 360. It will go in without a caddy, but I wouldn't trust it that way. You can order the new xbox 360 hard drive enclosures on Ebay for about $5.00 though. That's what I did with the drive I'm using now.

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 !!




No, not actually. You can buy the 12 month live card on amazon for 35 dollars. I just got one in the mail yesterday from them. so its not 10 dollars a month its 40 dollars a year.

Not bad. I guess....

whats with this---i came here to play crapshoot

dcrawl wrote:You actually CAN add these to the new Xbox Slim, if you're willing to take some tools to this one. Internally it is just a standard SATA driver, same as the slim.

Youtube is your best friend at finding this, you need a T6 and a T10 screwdriver, or some elbow grease and a nice hammer.

This is true. I bought the 250G hard drive from woot back in December and did exactly this. Use the T6 and T10 screw driver to remove the case. Push the hard drive into the socket. Put in some crumpled pieces of electrical tape for stability and there you have it. Takes around 5-10 minutes, and it's so easy a caveman could do it.

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Why couldn't someone just buy a 2TB 2.5" SATA drive and hook that up to their XBox? These teeny little 60 and 250 gig drives are so stupidly overpriced I'm guessing there must be something proprietary about them that makes other HDDs not work as replacements.

quevim wrote:Why couldn't someone just buy a 2TB 2.5" SATA drive and hook that up to their XBox? These teeny little 60 and 250 gig drives are so stupidly overpriced I'm guessing there must be something proprietary about them that makes other HDDs not work as replacements.

Yep. If memory serves, using an unauthorized hard drive voids the warranty and can get you kicked off of Xbox Live as a TOs violation (because they assume that modifying hardware is a step on the road to piracy).

It's hard to find a good Cat5 cable for less the $50 these days, I'm in for 3 just for the ethernet cable, anyone want to buy the harddrives from me?

Unless the harddrives will work with my Mac, anyone know if they are compatable?

In all seriousness, I'd suspect that new harddrives for the original 360 is going to get hard to find since I've notice that none of the box stores care them anymore and only HD's for the slim. I see a day shortly when you can't get a HD at all for the original 360 that isn't used or refurbed.

If the HD upgrade is all you want, a new unopened Microsoft 250GB HD for the original Xbox 360 (not the slim) is only $54 on eBay from several reputable sellers and $59 to $99 from amazon.com sellers.

PoorOldEdgarDerby wrote:I've been meaning to ask...do you see in my eyes the same fear that would take the heart of you?

I have looked deep into your very soul, and I see a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.

With bacon.

lshoover wrote:whats with this---i came here to play crapshoot

Look under the rug.

spiderweb1986 wrote:Yep. If memory serves, using an unauthorized hard drive voids the warranty and can get you kicked off of Xbox Live as a TOs violation (because they assume that modifying hardware is a step on the road to piracy).

Worse yet, it's a step on the road to bypassing Microsoft's overpriced accessories.

The irony is that the factual write-up presented today is actually funnier than many of their made up ones...

In the words of Buck Murdock "Irony can be pretty ironic sometimes"

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 !!

You can get a 12 month card on sale for $40 every couple months, usually on amazon. And the stock price is only $60. That's $3.33 or $5 a month.

quevim wrote:Why couldn't someone just buy a 2TB 2.5" SATA drive and hook that up to their XBox? These teeny little 60 and 250 gig drives are so stupidly overpriced I'm guessing there must be something proprietary about them that makes other HDDs not work as replacements.

You can use specific Western Digital models, but if you slap in a 2TB drive, it won't recognize anything beyond 250GB, since you need a few files from a legitimate XBox hard drive. You format it, slap a few files (borrowed from the internets...) onto the very beginning of the drive, and viola! If you want to go this route, you'll save yourself $10-$20, maybe not even worth it anymore, unless you really like sticking it to the man.

finalhour wrote: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

Those were brand new not refurbished I can assure u of that...

if you don't need a lot of room, you can just format a thumb usb drive and use it as your hard drive. my son is doing that with an 8 gig