250gb Xbox 360 hard drive now available

Brian Ambrozy 23 Mar, 2010 at 2:19pm ET Article published in Gaming

While PS3 owners have long been able to enjoy whatever space they could afford due to the use of standard off-the-shelf hard drives for their consoles, Microsoft Xbox 360 owners have been stuck in the dark ages of insanely overpriced 120gb disks, which fill rapidly in today’s world of massive DLC, digital HD movie storage, and modern games’ propensity to store content on the hard drive.

Today, Microsoft finally unleashed 250gb hard drives that are now available at retail for $129.99.

250gb, while a positive step in the right direction, is still a pretty tiny drive when you consider how big everything is becoming. Still, those Xbox 360 owners stuck in the year 2006 with 120gb storage or (gasp!) even worse—those with 20gb drives, now have some options to alleviate that “drive is getting full” pressure.

Comments

23 Mar 2010 ~ 4:26pm Tim My Xbox 360 has the 60 GB hard drive, and about 44 GB of it is unused.
23 Mar 2010 ~ 4:33pm primesuspect Tim, you're not exactly a "power user"....
23 Mar 2010 ~ 5:11pm djshowdown Tim, if we are going to brag about the shortcomings of our hard drives, I still have the 20gb lol

I only have a couple GB left but its all good as I pretty much play Street Fighter 4 exclusively
23 Mar 2010 ~ 5:26pm primesuspect My 360 also has a 20gb drive in it. Sigh.
23 Mar 2010 ~ 5:40pm GnomeWizardd I got a 12gb drive, blah
23 Mar 2010 ~ 5:44pm djshowdown I think we have a winner, dude I didn't know they did a 12GB!
23 Mar 2010 ~ 5:46pm GnomeWizardd NM i checked its a 20
23 Mar 2010 ~ 5:47pm Cyclonite There isn't. It's the 20GB drive, but it starts with about 12GB of usable space.
23 Mar 2010 ~ 7:07pm AD Nice they're at least offering the option, but it's still way too expensive for 250GB though - you can get a standard off the shelf 3.5" 1TB or 2.5" 500GB HDD for much less than that. The margin MS are giving themselves on that is enormous.
24 Mar 2010 ~ 3:08am Tim Isn't it a regular hard drive inside that plastic case? I'll bet there's a way to crack it open, swap in a big hard drive, and save money. AND get the satisfaction of screwing Microsoft out of some obscene profits!