Xbox 360 USB storage support now live

[JoPh]

i want to say this is a great idea. but i fear once this happens and its on usb hacked games will increase.....

 

[Queasy]

i want to say this is a great idea. but i fear once this happens and its on usb hacked games will increase.....

Games already get hacked through easily accessible modded hard drives and memory card readers. Probably not going to change much.

 

[purbeast0]

Games already get hacked through easily accessible modded hard drives and memory card readers. Probably not going to change much.

yea and you can already play pirated games off of hard drives on some modded 360s.

 

[Narmer]

There was nothing stopping MS from doing this when the 360 was launched, so I'll believe it when I see it. They have a history of screwing us on accessories.

Yep. MS is going the way of Apple. They're locking everything down and raping their customers. Even their new phones are locked down. I still have my 20GB HDD but everything I buy now is for PS3.

 

[flashbacck]

Sweet, I need to order myself a usb hard drive enclosure because I've got a few laptop hard drives laying around that would be perfect for this.

sounds like they cap usable space at 16gb though.

 

[Queasy]

sounds like they cap usable space at 16gb though.

I think this change is aimed more at replacing the memory cards with USB thumbsticks than using hard drives. Though, HDDs can be used too.

 

[herkulease]

Yep. MS is going the way of Apple. They're locking everything down and raping their customers. Even their new phones are locked down. I still have my 20GB HDD but everything I buy now is for PS3.

Microsoft saw what sony was doing with the ps2 on accessories and figure hell why not.

Not sure how they are locking down the windows 7 phones.

are you unhappy they are not giving updates from 6.5 to 7? Dropping copying and paste?

the only "lock down" MS is doing with their phones is a strict hardware requirement. baseline specs and how the phone is laid out. the reality was with 6 and 6.5 it was all over the place. a simple generalize standard will allow microsoft to market it much better than having essentially a fragmented mobile OS.

 

[trmiv]

sounds like they cap usable space at 16gb though.

Better than nothing I guess. These 40 gig drives I have laying around aren't doing anything though, so I may as well use them.

 

[Narmer]

Microsoft saw what sony was doing with the ps2 on accessories and figure hell why not.

Not sure how they are locking down the windows 7 phones.

are you unhappy they are not giving updates from 6.5 to 7? Dropping copying and paste?

the only "lock down" MS is doing with their phones is a strict hardware requirement. baseline specs and how the phone is laid out. the reality was with 6 and 6.5 it was all over the place. a simple generalize standard will allow microsoft to market it much better than having essentially a fragmented mobile OS.

You can only install software from their marketplace, like apple. I don't think the corporate world will like this. Also, I don't remember SONY excluding other manufacturers from making accessories for their PS2 console.

 

[Queasy]

Confirmed for an April 6 release date.

 

[Kabob]

TeamXbox says the same.

 

[TrueBlueLS]

I'm curious... what's the reliability of USB flash drives? I wonder if you can even back up so to speak to your own hard drive in case the USB drive goes bad.

 

[yllus]

Does anyone have official confirmation that you can install disc-based titles onto a USB drive? I refuse to pay for another Xbox 360 HDD (I've got the 20GB) but I want to have more than one game installed at any one time.

 

[Queasy]

Does anyone have official confirmation that you can install disc-based titles onto a USB drive? I refuse to pay for another Xbox 360 HDD (I've got the 20GB) but I want to have more than one game installed at any one time.

Yes, you can install games to the USB drive. It's in the link to Major Nelson's site I posted earlier.

 

[R Nilla]

Yes, you can install games to the USB drive. It's in the link to Major Nelson's site I posted earlier.

I suppose I should update the thread since USB support isn't really a question anymore.

EDIT: Done. Shame about the thread title...

 

[Queasy]

EDIT: Done. Shame about the thread title...

What's wrong with the thread title?

 

[R Nilla]

What's wrong with the thread title?

I just meant I wish I could edit the thread title (like you could in Fusetalk). The topic is no longer a question. No biggie.

 

[flashbacck]

I was looking at some USB stick prices... and what's really lame, is that the official xbox HD's are a better deal. The Xbox HD at least sells for 2gb/$1. USB flash drives sell for, at best, 0.6GB/$1.

 

[Kromis]

I just meant I wish I could edit the thread title (like you could in Fusetalk). The topic is no longer a question. No biggie.

No, no. You can still edit the thread title

 

[Patrick Wolf]

I was looking at some USB stick prices... and what's really lame, is that the official xbox HD's are a better deal. The Xbox HD at least sells for 2gb/$1. USB flash drives sell for, at best, 0.6GB/$1.

USB sticks aren't meant to replace the main HDD... They replace M$'s ridiculously overpirced, archaic memory units. 512MB Card for $28 (.019GB/$1)? Ooook. But this is M$ and they still need to be greedy a-holes somehow. So to that extent they make a 250GB HDD available for $130 when you can get a standard 3.5in 500GB HDD for ~$60, or a 2.5in for ~$80.

 

[Queasy]

I just meant I wish I could edit the thread title (like you could in Fusetalk). The topic is no longer a question. No biggie.

You can still edit the thread title. Just click "Edit" then click "Go Advanced". The thread title will be editable then.

 

[Queasy]

Surprise, GameStop lists the "Official" Xbox 360 USB Flash Drives and they are over priced.

After letting slip the date and price of the stand-alone Xbox 360 250GB hard drive, GameStop has once again come out ahead of Microsoft to let the public know when and how much a new product is coming out. This time, it is the Xbox 360 branded USB flash drives.

GameStop has listings for both an 8GB and a 16GB Xbox 360 USB flash drives. The 8GB has a $39.99 price and the 16GB has a $69.90 price. Both are listed with a ship date of April 6 which runs counter to Microsoft's claims that they won't be coming until May.

A quick search at online retailers NewEgg and Amazon reveals 16GB USB flash drives going as cheap as $28.50 without a rebate. So why the big price difference? The GameStop listing says that the Xbox 360 branded USB flash drive is pre-configured to work with the Xbox 360 and comes with one month free of Xbox Live Gold. The Gold subscription is worth $4.17 while the steps documented to configure USB flash drives with the Xbox 360 look like a no-brainer.

Our suggestion (barring this being incorrect information from GameStop), skip the Xbox 360 branded USB flash drives and just find the cheapest quality drive you can get if you don't have one already when the update comes on April 6. Any USB storage device 1GB or larger is supposed to work and is easily configured in Xbox 360 menus. Just remember that you can configure only a maximum of 16GB for use with the Xbox 360 and can use only two USB storage devices at the same time.

 

[R Nilla]

You can still edit the thread title. Just click "Edit" then click "Go Advanced". The thread title will be editable then.

Well boy am I a n00b.

 

[Queasy]

Well boy am I a n00b.

 

[Kabob]

Turned on the 360 this morning and what seemed to be a largeish update was downloaded. Actually froze while downloading the first time, I restarted and it finished completely the second time. Anyone know what it was for?