Leaked Info on 60gb Starter Kit and 20gb's Death

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Its massively overpriced. I thought we all knew that? It's a SATA HDD in a case, nothing more, nothing less, and they use crappy HDD's

While it may very well be overpriced, it is certainly not massively overpriced. People seem to forget that it's not just a HDD, there is a lot of things involved behind the scenes. Read more...

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While it may very well be overpriced, it is certainly not massively overpriced. People seem to forget that it's not just a HDD, there is a lot of things involved behind the scenes. Read more...

$75 for a plastic casing and some adapters? That seems quite a bit steep, especially since they've have ordered multiple millions. I know the site says they're just estimates, but it seems to be an estimate that's a ways off. I can't see it even costing Microsoft $75 to have it in stores.

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It's massively overpriced. They could have easily opted for a system similar to that of a PS3 or PC with the HDD internal and hot-swappable.

No, they really couldn't. It's not just a hard drive. Unless they were to allow users to bring their own HDD and then have the console download the necessary files/modifications/whatever from the Marketplace but I'm not sure how practical that really is. It also poses a security risk.

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No, they really couldn't. It's not just a hard drive. Unless they were to allow users to bring their own HDD and then have the console download the necessary files/modifications/whatever from the Marketplace but I'm not sure how practical that really is. It also poses a security risk.

What security risk?

The content you have bought online is tied to your XBL username.

The hard drive itself when put into a 360 would be formatted to the 360's proprietary file system before the system could be used, so anything on it would be wiped.

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