Are hard drives avaliable?

S7rider · 23 Jan 2006 at 02:28

Are they still in short supply?

NokkonWud · 23 Jan 2006 at 02:40

Short Supply.

uk_viper · 23 Jan 2006 at 06:44

you would be dead lucky to find one, ive been searching for weeks and have had no luck what so ever

LoadsaMoney · 23 Jan 2006 at 10:52

Someone had them a few days ago.

EDIT: Thought i better edit that just in case, can't be to carefull these days.

Thesnipergecko · 23 Jan 2006 at 10:53

LoadsaMoney said:
The unmentionable had them a few days ago.

You just mentioned the unmentionable :eek:

Paul ...

LoadsaMoney · 23 Jan 2006 at 10:54

LoL, they aint got any now though.

da_mic_1530 · 23 Jan 2006 at 11:24

i ordered from the unmentionables the other day when it clearly said in stock, now its pending replen stock, i.e they dont have any

FrankJH · 23 Jan 2006 at 13:20

There arent even that many memory cards available either

Thats the most frustrating thing, M$ could have easily implemented the use of usb keys to keep their early implementers happy after obvious short supply of hdd etc ( and this could have been taken out at a later date by a ROM update of somekind)?

Obviously this would have stopped people buying a 360 memory card, and probably bought another game instead ( so no real loss for m$)

just my opinion

Maniac618 · 23 Jan 2006 at 13:32

guys, buy a cheap laptop drive and follow the instructions on numerous sites out there, it's VERY easy to do, as far as i know it's not illegal, but would probably invalidate your warranty. It'd save you LOTS of money though and you could get a bigger drive space.

JimmyEatWorms · 23 Jan 2006 at 13:54

Maniac618 said:
guys, buy a cheap laptop drive and follow the instructions on numerous sites out there, it's VERY easy to do, as far as i know it's not illegal, but would probably invalidate your warranty. It'd save you LOTS of money though and you could get a bigger drive space.

Ummm...as far as 'm aware doing that will just give you a USB mass storage device that you can't use for game saves, live profiles or marketplace downloads. Pretty pointless.

Maniac618 · 23 Jan 2006 at 14:12

JimmyEatWorms said:
Ummm...as far as 'm aware doing that will just give you a USB mass storage device that you can't use for game saves, live profiles or marketplace downloads. Pretty pointless.

nah, you're thinking of the simple usb connecting way, The way I've seen includes connecting via usb and then via one of those drive cable things, can't remember what they're called.

JimmyEatWorms · 23 Jan 2006 at 14:36

I'd be suprised if that worked considering you couldn't even do that with the original xbox without chipping or softmodding.

Jabbs · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:04

Well if somone knows how its done just post a link or send it via email plz.

Oakesy2001uk · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:40

same here I would love to know how that is done.

Maniac618 · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:54

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/mods/USB Hard Drive Mod.htm

uk_viper · 23 Jan 2006 at 15:55

FrankJH said:
There arent even that many memory cards available either

Thats the most frustrating thing, M$ could have easily implemented the use of usb keys to keep their early implementers happy after obvious short supply of hdd etc ( and this could have been taken out at a later date by a ROM update of somekind)?

Obviously this would have stopped people buying a 360 memory card, and probably bought another game instead ( so no real loss for m$)

just my opinion

unfortauntely if they did that they wouldnt get their money, plus this is microsoft were talking about here, anyway, memory cards in berkshire area are not a problem to get hold of, its just the HDs and VGA cables that are the hard ones to get

LoadsaMoney · 23 Jan 2006 at 16:07

Maniac618 said:
guys, buy a cheap laptop drive and follow the instructions on numerous sites out there, it's VERY easy to do, as far as i know it's not illegal, but would probably invalidate your warranty. It'd save you LOTS of money though and you could get a bigger drive space.

Hows it gona save you lots of money though if it invalidates your warranty, if your 360 goes **** up your gona be £280 down the pan, is it gona save you that much.

JimmyEatWorms · 23 Jan 2006 at 16:19

Maniac618 said:
http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/mods/USB Hard Drive Mod.htm

That looks like what I said above to me. It will let you store music, images and videos but won't act as a replacement drive. It's just a USB mass storage device which the 360 will use...but you still can't store game saves etc on it.

da_mic_1530 · 23 Jan 2006 at 16:29

iirc the xbox can only read data from external drives, it can write to the 360 harddrive thou

leetabix · 23 Jan 2006 at 16:33

I've yet to see any anywhere around here. Altho, I'm not in a rush for one.