Re: 320GB hard drive coming to Xbox 360 S models for $130 this month

Originally Posted by
Zyrius
Honestly I don't see why a slightly bigger hard drive would matter that much. I have a 250g Xbox slim and I hardly use a fifth of that. The only reason I can think of is to back up a copy of the game, though you still need the disc to play. Sorry, I'm a noob to all of this and just trying to learn a bit more behind the reasons for a larger hard drive and why it would warrant such a markup.
Because using the disc to play your games causes the XBOX to wear and tear much faster than playing games from your HDD. So you can easily end up installing lots of games.
Star Ocean The Last Hope requires 3 discs, and at one point you have to travel back to earlier planets, and then you have to insert previous discs again. So by then you'll still have all 3 discs copied to your HDD, this consumes lots of space. Just a random example.
Point is - Playing from HDD is much better than from discs. Yes you still need the discs, but that's only there to recognize you actually own the disc.

Originally Posted by
Sin Harvest
Would be nice to have this for my phat xbox, but I guess I'll just leave the larger HDD on my JTAG. Anybody know if you use a 320 GB 2.5" laptop HDD in the phat 360 enclosure and format it on the console if it work as a phat 360 HDD like the 120 GB and 250 GB... or is 320 GB format only recognized on Slims? I know that on my (Phat) JTAG, the most you can use for a HDD is 2 TB as the max the motherboard will recognize, but I am not sure if it is different for motherboard of a non-JTAG'd console.
I made a topic about this actually... I don't think it's possible judging from the posts replied. You need some sort of "ss.bin" file for the desired size, and you can't just magically create that I think.
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