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.

I wait until I find them on special and get them for $39.99.. never more... Check out techbargains.com.. i c it all the time..

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-120GB-Hard-Drive/dp/B000OYKQBU/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1301841366&sr=8-3

The 120gb drive is 70 bucks at amazon, might as well pay the extra $22 and get yourself a less crappy headset. You can get 12 months of live for 30 bucks from amazon if you watch the price for a drop.

pohatu771 wrote:It's still cheaper here. Maybe it's not much of a deal, but it's the cheapest price online.

I love woot.. but i do expect a better deal from them.. sorry u dont understand that..

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).

it just wont work...only drives upto 250gb and even then some wont work not all 250gb are compatible.

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.

We did the same thing when the kid's 360 Elite died after 4 years of faithful service, and replaced it with a 4GB slim.

You just need a torx head screwdriver (I think it was a #4) and some patience. Once the HDD was out, it slides right into the opening in the 360 slim. All the settings and saves went right into the new machine without a hitch. It's run just fine since Christmas.

Not a hard procedure at all and we saved a decent bit of $ in buying the lower end slim.

The wired headset is pretty crappy - there's a reason Microsoft seems to pack it in with just about every 360 accessory they sale. The HD can be "modded" to work in a slim 360 pretty easily, but woot was selling the older 250GB ones for about this same price awhile back (and you better believe I snatched that up). The three months of Live adds abit to the value, but it's still far from an amazing deal.

Great job in your description.

"Go ahead, slip that Xbox 360 Headset on. Hear that? That’s a 13-year-old in Gary, IN calling you racial epithets for failing to load your bazooka in a timely manner."

Spot on!

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.

Mainly because there is no such thing as a 2.5" drive with a 2TB capacity. Only just recently have there been ones with 1TB capacity, but they are in the larger 12.5mm thick form factor, not the more common 9.5mm.

1. 3 month sub card is $24.99
2. This will not work on a Xbox 360S unless you take it out of the case
3. Yes you can transfer using a data migration cable.

If you call microsoft support and ask about xbox live promotions, they have 1 year for 35.99 going on right now.

I just called in to complain about automatic renewal for my 3 month 24.99 and how i wanted it cancelled, and they took my last payment and put it towards the 35.99 so now i'm paying 10 bucks for a year of live.

also if you plug in an external hard drive (usb) to the xbox and format it, it will only let you use like 8gb or something silly.

you're best just buying a couple of 8gb flashdrives and using those for your different games.

Damn - just bought 2 20Gbs a week ago, one for $38 and the other for $10.

i would like to know how long that ethernet cable is....

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).

You can do something like this though - first, you google the firmware for the different retail harddrives out there, such as the 250gb modern warfare disk. Then, you purchase the compatible hard drive (Western Digital or Seagate if I remember). Then you Flesh your drive w/ that firmware image. Now the xbox will recognize it as authorized. Next, you have to fit it into the proprietary enclosure. You could take the stock 20gb enclosure and swap the drives.

Or. You could do what I did - buy the 250gb enclosure on DealXtreme, as they have done those above steps for me as I am lazy. I think it was only 70 bucks shipped? It has worked perfectly for about 1.5 years now.

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.

Storage for the xbox has to be formated in a fat type drive, which these externals like the 2tb are not. A thumb drive is an example of the type of drive that works for storage on an xbox.

hbi2k wrote: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.

I pay $25 a year for my xbox live gold
Xbox Live Gold Family Pack

that was the FUNNIEST Woot write up EVER!!!

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?

You can buy a transfer cable at any local best buy or circuit city...etc

garbyrator wrote: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?
...trimmed your quote

I think you might be thinking of an HDMI cable, Cat-5(or better) or Ethernet cables are as cheap as dirt. Even at your local Home Improvement Store a 100' cable shouldn't cost more than $30, check online and you can get one for <$20(http://www.buyextras.com/cat5epacoetc5.html).
And a 3-15' cable should be less than $10 online.

For Inexpensive HDMIs though, check out EForCity's Store at Amazon. Oh, and I've purchase a few now without any problems with playback.

A fact worth mentioning....

if you just so happen to own the hardware that this drive attaches itself to....you're the perfect target id--t that this sale was made for. Go ahead, buy them all. Good deal.

NOT.

Shtiksh wrote:I think you might be thinking of an HDMI cable, Cat-5(or better) or Ethernet cables are as cheap as dirt. Even at your local Home Improvement Store a 100' cable shouldn't cost more than $30, check online and you can get one for <$20(http://www.buyextras.com/cat5epacoetc5.html).
And a 3-15' cable should be less than $10 online.

For Inexpensive HDMIs though, check out EForCity's Store at Amazon. Oh, and I've purchase a few now without any problems with playback.

lmao

When you trimmed his quote, you trimmed the part where he was being sarcastic.

garbyrator wrote: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

Ummm...50 dollars for an ethernet cable? It's 2011, you can find those growing in the wild, or here for less than a dollar. I don't know where you're shopping.

A lot of you seem to be forgetting that this comes with 3 months of Xbox Live, meaning that the 250GB hard drive is NOT close to the same price. I mean A LOT of you are just not reading.

SEXYDUDE420_KILLA here. i take of fence to the front page right up.

woot just mad i fragged them. woot r noobs.

Tegeril wrote:lmao

When you trimmed his quote, you trimmed the part where he was being sarcastic.

how awesome!

bigcityslyder wrote:i would like to know how long that ethernet cable is....

If memory serves me right (it's the same one that came with my Xbox) it's 10', so just the exact wrong size; Too short for long runs, too long for short runs.

Pretty good writeup. But it seems like this stuff should be cheaper given that it targets a relatively small group: those who bought one of the HDD-less 360 models that came before the Slim versions.

Same deal on amazon with free shipping....

Save your money and buy a PS3. It's 1000x times better. I've got both and don't touch the xbox.

mrc131 wrote:Save your money and buy a PS3. It's 1000x times better. I've got both and don't touch the xbox.

Ironically, I own an xbox, ps3, sick gaming pc, 3d tv, etc.. My ps3 is nothing more than a BluRay player, nuff said.

theherbshack wrote:Ironically, I own an xbox, ps3, sick gaming pc, 3d tv, etc.. My ps3 is nothing more than a BluRay player, nuff said.

That's surprising since it has superior graphics, games, controls, features and free online. I guess you play the serious stuff on your pc.

Would this work with the new black xbox slims or whatever?

+1 to this being one of the best write ups ever.

Just so you all know, the gamertag "SEXYDUDE420_KILLA" is still available. Get it while you can!

bsmith1 wrote:Just so you all know, the gamertag "SEXYDUDE420_KILLA" is still available. Get it while you can!

That will get the girls...

DVvM wrote: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

yes sir. did it myself with an old twenty gig that my friend lent me because his xbox red ringed. works fine, had a problem with it once, restarted my console and all was well. I hate the cheap bastards at microsoft.

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

yea buy a wireless adapter

You can get a 250GB HDD and a Xbox 360 HDD enclosure for around the same price and Flesh it yourself.

This was a much needed update from my little 20GB HDD. Works great, as it should. The extra 3 months of Live was definitely a plus.