Xbox 360 20GB Hard Drive

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Product Features

• Features -
• Store multiple game saves and play top-selling original Xbox products
• Save music and create custom playlists
• Pre-loaded high-definition bonus content, including the puzzle game Hexic HD

Product Details

• Our recommended age: 5 - 20 years
• Manufacturer recommended age: 0 months and up
• Shipping: Currently, item can be shipped only within the U.S. and to APO/FPO addresses. For APO/FPO shipments, please check with the manufacturer regarding warranty and support issues.
• ASIN: B000B6ML32
• Item Weight: 14.7 ounces
• Media: Video Game
• Release Date: November 15, 2005
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars See all reviews (86 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #309 in Video Games (See Bestsellers in Video Games)

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• Discontinued by manufacturer: Yes

Product Description

Product Description
Expand your Xbox 360 experience with downloadable content, rip music, and play an array of original Xbox games. 20 GB and detachable, the hard drive allows gamers to store their games, music, downloaded trailers, levels, demos and community-created content from Xbox Live Marketplace and more.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

102 of 108 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Misleading Storage Capacity, February 18, 2006

By	R.M. Fernandez - See all my reviews

Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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.

109 of 124 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Must-Have for XBox 360 Systems, December 3, 2005

By	Lisa Shea "LisaShea.com" - See all my reviews (TOP 10 REVIEWER)

Durability:5.0 out of 5 stars Fun:5.0 out of 5 stars Educational:5.0 out of 5 stars 

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 hard drive and plug it into a new XBox 360 unit.

The XBox 360 hard drive lets you download content from XBox Live onto it - this can include new maps for games, new levels, even songs and videos. You can store your own CDs on the unit, which is fantastic for playing your own soundtracks during games.

It even comes with a free copy of Hexic HD - a tetris-like game that is really quite addictive. You find it under the 'Xbox Live Arcade' menu choice. You don't need XBox Live to play it - it's fully playable when you are off line.

This really is a must-have for any XBox 360 gamer - highly recommended!

26 of 28 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars way too expensive, March 6, 2007

By	Marcus Roof "marcus roof" - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Fun:3.0 out of 5 stars 

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.