New XBox: 4GB vs. 250GB?

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 5:32 pm

So the new XBox has come out for $200. I was really hoping that it would at least have a 60GB HDD and this was really expected. I figured it would be a nice replacement for my XBox 360 that was stolen a couple of months ago along with my 120GB HDD. However, the new one has a whopping *sarcasm* 4GB of HDD space! Whooopdee fricken doo! Well, the only thing that I can say that \"might\" validate this is that supposedly there was an update that allows you to use 16GB flash drives that you can save map packs, and any other downloadable content onto. I've also heard rumor that it is actually safer to store your content on these drives and that they will run faster than the HDD unit itself.

As a tech, I have good and bad things to say about this... one is that it might be easier to copy your data over to another drive as a backup of your saved content. I've also never really been a big fan of the overpriced XBox hard drive units which are basically the same thing as a regular HDD unit when you take it all apart. The only thing that sets it apart really is it's firmware. I also believe it is probably faster because of the lower capacity of a 16GB HDD unit. The thing that can be a bit unsettling though, is that I HAVE had flash drives fail on me a bit more frequently than I have had HDD units fail on me simply speaking from experience. However, I do know that a lot of the hardware inside an XBox from past experiences has not been up to my standards of quality.

The biggest question in the sky, is this... how limited are we on this? Can we have multiple flash drives or are we just limited to one or two and forced to buy one of their overpriced hunk-of-junk Microtrash HDD units? Anyone have any experience with this? Anyone here buy a 4GB version of the new XBox?

Heretic · Post by **Heretic** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 6:12 pm

Why not buy the 299 dollar model instead of the 199 http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Microsoft+- ... Id=1069212

Sirius · Post by **Sirius** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:14 pm

4 GB? I'm guessing this is an SSD or something? Little bit of a low-end SSD at that, though.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:16 pm

Because I'm married

My wife is honestly just fine with the $300 XBox but I'm still trying to save money where I can and if I don't really need the HDD unit, I don't really need to buy it. If there isn't a limit on how many flash drives I can save data onto, then I will do that if I can in order to save some money and upgrade later on. I already have a few flash drives on hand and even an external drive.

I also saw one video where they took it apart and said that it appeared to be just a regular HDD unit inside the new XBox 250 GB. The only problem I'm wondering about is firmware issues.

[]V[]essenjah · Post by **[]V[]essenjah** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:26 pm

Yep, I believe it is SSD. You can buy a 250GB HDD unit later on this year apparently.

AlphaDoG · Post by **AlphaDoG** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:42 pm

http://xboxdrives.x-pec.com/?p=list

As far as I know all the xbox drives were IDE drives.

fliptw · Post by **fliptw** » Tue Aug 24, 2010 7:58 pm

360 drives are sata.