Xbox 360 20GB Hard Drive

PROS:

- Owning a HDD allows you to download patches from Xbox Live to play original xboox games.

- Download game demos from Xbox Live Marketplace

- More storage than a memory card

CONS

- 20 GB* is actually 13GB. For some reason, MS has 7 GBs reserved on the HDD.

- 13 GB isnt very much when you consider game demos average about .5 GB to 1GB in size. If you're going to be downloading patches and add-ons for your games, as well as demos, that 13GB of storage is going to fill up sooner than you think.

If you've got a base XBox 360 core unit, you really need to find yourself a hard drive. The hard drive lets you save music, store games, download content, and even play old XBox games.

In the original XBox, every XBox unit had a built in hard drive. This was inconvenient for several reasons. First, there were people who never used it, but who had to pay for it anyway. Next, if your XBox died, it was a royal pain because the hard drive wasn't removable.

You could try to move items off your hard drive onto memory units, but many save games were simply too large to fit on a memory unit.

The XBox 360 has a great improvement - you can buy the XBox 360 with or without the hard drive. You can even buy the hard drive separate if you want to upgrade your XBox 360 later on. If your hard drive fries, you don't have to get an entire new XBox 360, you just buy a new hard drive. If your XBox 360 fries, you don't lose your information, you simply pop out the...Read more

This thing works fine, is small, convenient, detachable. There are 3 problems I have:
1) too little memory and the 360 OS/dashboard takes up a ton of space.
2) overpriced for the amount of storage you get. you can find a 250GB+ external USB hard drive for this price or less. the price simply doesn't make sense.
3) I would have appreciated a USB port (as on an external USB hard drive) so I could hook it up to my PC to transfer files.