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Why I'll never buy the 120GB HDD.

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Shared on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 18:43


So the only downfall to this is that you can't put downloaded content on the drive, but, honestly, what takes up the bulk of space on hard drives? Existing music and video libraries. I don't download movies so the only things taking up space on my X360's HDD are game saves, gamer profiles, backwards compatibility downloads, select DLC for various games and gamer pictures. All told, my HDD still has 11.3gb left.

If I put music on my HDD, it would be full. So that's where this little fun trick comes in. This way I can have all my music, I can play it in the background while I play, and it's taking up zero space. And since I can just swap it over to my PC, I can update my music and add video to the portable drive and play that on the 360, too. Fragging things while listening to Freezepop? You know it!

There's only one catch. The X360 will only recognize external drives as Portable Devices if they are formatted with FAT32. This means to do this trick, you either need a running copy of legacy Windows (or a good Linux disk partitioner) or you need partition magic.

Comments

SpecialEDsauce's picture
Submitted by SpecialEDsauce on Sat, 08/11/2007 - 23:27
The media center works fine while I am playing. Just go to the guide and start your music off the HDD from your PC. You need to make sure all of your music files are set to share and anything you don't want the 360 to confuse for music and videos set to not share. I have been using mine without any hitches since a month after Vistas came out. You can also play it through the dashboard and set up a slide show of your photos. Just turn off the ones of you being naughty before th in laws come over.
TANK's picture
Submitted by TANK on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 19:59
Demoes take up a huge amount of space. BUt as long as you delete them when you're done playing, you can save a lot of space. ANd if you're not into video marketplace, the next biggest space eater would be game DLC.
nomodifier's picture
Submitted by nomodifier on Tue, 08/07/2007 - 21:24
Or... just stream music and videos from your PC.
Captiosus's picture
Submitted by Captiosus on Wed, 08/08/2007 - 00:30
@nomodifier: Have you used Media Center? It's a bloated piece of DRM laden shit. Setting up Vista Ultimate to use my library of music and video, the computer took over an hour creating a master index and then wouldn't even show half of it on the media center extender, the X360. What it did show was completely out of order. And while you're in media center mode on the X360, can you even do anything else? Since it's no longer the dashboard, every time I'd try to leave media center to do something else, streaming comes to an abrupt stop. This method is just like plugging in an iPod to the system. It doesn't require media center, it doesn't enforce buggy DRM, it lets you control how the files are displayed (by allowing you to set up your own structure on the FAT32 drive), and it'll let you play music all the time, not just when you're in media center mode or if the media center server is offline.

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