question about the 360 hdd..


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So i got one for x-mas and the free space on it just shows 10GB. I thought it was a 20 GB drive? Where is the other 10? Is this strange or normal for the premium version?

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It's mostly a lot of software for a lot of things. The blades,the multi-meida functionality, plus no doubt a fair bit of reserved space for updates and such.

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It's mostly a lot of software for a lot of things. The blades,the multi-meida functionality, plus no doubt a fair bit of reserved space for updates and such.

Uhm... the blades? You mean the OS right? You don't need the HD for that. Remember the core users?

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So what would happen if we opened up the xbox 360 HD enclosure and put a bigger Hard Drive ?

Sure you can do that, but instead of having a 20gb hdd you will have a 60gb hdd that dosnt work.

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Actually the space is used up by the following:

1) A couple of partitions used for Xbox emulation, that mimic part the layout of part of the original Xbox's 8GB hard drive.

2) Some preloaded videos and music.

3) As with all hard drives, the formatted capacity is a bit less than the raw disk space, so a bit is lost there as well.

I also think some space is reserved for caching of game data to increase load times.

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I also think some space is reserved for caching of game data to increase load times.

I assume this is true, as I have seen oblivion running like a dog. But after defrag of the HD it runs fine again.

Also, there are some Promo videos on there, I had 2 videos but there was a French and and English version of each. I watched them once and quickly realized I would never watch them again, so I deleted them.

Got roughly 2Gb back just from that

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It also holds an Audio Database for CD's :) When you enter a legit CD it should bring up the Artist and Title etc

I would have thought it used an online connection for this.

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