Questions about 360 Slim HDD

[ZenErik]

How about one of these?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-250GB ... 291wt_1066

Much cheaper than first party, and they work great in my experience. Mine is a year old now. I paid about $40 new for it. They're $50 now. Still worth it.

[KDub]

Only slightly sketchy since it shows a regular microsoft drive but says later it is a third party.

[ZenErik]

Only slightly sketchy since it shows a regular microsoft drive but says later it is a third party.

They are most definitely 3rd party. Mine came in knock off packaging, but it works great. In the end it's still a 250GB laptop HDD inside a little enclosure. With the right firmware to work with a Xbox 360

[Stark]

@Stark: did you find a good guide with pics or anything to help you through it? What size drive did you use? And you can confirm it's worked with oXbox games?

So, I did it with out a guide, you can use one to figure out what size of screw the enclosure uses (I just manhandled it), other than that you don't need a guide. The drive literally just plugs into a daughterboard at the bottom of the HDD opening. I used a 20GB drive like the one that CCFJR is offering to sell ya. I admit I haven't tried any oXbox games on this setup, but it should be no different then a Slim drive in this respect. I believe I have Breakdown I can try when I get a moment though.

[noiseredux]

How about one of these?

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Brand-New-250GB ... 291wt_1066

Much cheaper than first party, and they work great in my experience. Mine is a year old now. I paid about $40 new for it. They're $50 now. Still worth it.

from what I've read, 3rd party drives do not work with oXbox games Erik. Only the real MS drives have the proper partition on them needed to run Xbox games.

At any rate, I'm on the fence on whether I should get an old HDD and do the extra steps and probably need to upgrade it not too far down the road, or if I should just get a nice big new HDD...

[ZenErik]

from what I've read, 3rd party drives do not work with oXbox games Erik. Only the real MS drives have the proper partition on them needed to run Xbox games.

At any rate, I'm on the fence on whether I should get an old HDD and do the extra steps and probably need to upgrade it not too far down the road, or if I should just get a nice big new HDD...

Interesting. I guess I never paid attention to that part because I have a Japanese console. So I would probably have to import Japanese versions of any oXbox games I were interested in... Not happening.

I would try to find a used one then. $130 doesn't seem worth it to me for a brand new slim HDD

[isiolia]

so I need an HDD for my Slim in order to run oXbox games on it. I've heard you can somehow take the older (cheaper) fat model HDD's out of their enclosure and use them in a Slim. Questions:

1. Has anyone done this?
2. It works for running original Xbox games?
3. How easy is it to do this?

I haven't, but the comments on the knock-off Slim HDD enclosures you can get for a few bucks on Amazon indicate that plenty of people have.

AFAIK, the Slim just has a standard SATA connector in the bay, and the case just serves as a brace to keep the thing steady.

[ZenErik]

AFAIK, the Slim just has a standard SATA connector in the bay, and the case just serves as a brace to keep the thing steady.

This is correct.

[noiseredux]

AFAIK, the Slim just has a standard SATA connector in the bay, and the case just serves as a brace to keep the thing steady.

This is correct.

right, but you need an official MS 360 HDD in order to make oXbox games work on it.

[ZenErik]

Yea. You mentioned that. So I suggested getting a used slim HDD. Unless you don't think you'll need the space. I use over 100GB on my HDD because I install all disc releases. Plus I have quite a few XBLA releases and some iDOLM@STER DLC.

If you don't install any games even a small 20GB might be fine. Unless some games require an install? I have no idea. May just be a PS3 thing.