What Does the Hard Drive Do?

One of my friends is interested in getting a 360, neither of us knows a lot about the hard drive functions (I'm Nintendo, he's Sony :P)

This is what i've come up with so far:

Download XBLA games/content

Backwards compatibility

Music/movies

Anything else?

demos, gamertags, themes, movies, music, arcade games, original xbox games, and saved games. lots more too.

i think if you buy the arcade you also have to buy a memory card to save your games on it.

$100 extra for the 60gb is the best deal imo.

demos, gamertags, themes, movies, music, arcade games, original xbox games, and saved games. lots more too.

i think if you buy the arcade you also have to buy a memory card to save your games on it.

$100 extra for the 60gb is the best deal imo.

summer_star17x

The HDD is what stores all ur stuff u do.

it basically functions like your hardrive does for your compy :P Stores everything you save and download. :) Like a big memory card. ;)

The newer 360s come with 60 gigs now, and elites come with 120 gig space drives. Older 360s came with 20gig drives and arcade machines come with just a memory card.

What does any hard drive do?

The big difference with the xbox one is that it is horribly over priced and that it is nowhere near 20gb - I think mine can with 12gb

Also in order to play certain games online you need a hard drive due to various updates that are downloaded onto your hard drive. If thats what you were going do and only do, then a 20G HD would be fine, but if youre into downloading movies and demos, then you'd probably need a bigger drive.

What does any hard drive do?

The big difference with the xbox one is that it is horribly over priced and that it is nowhere near 20gb - I think mine can with 12gb

angryfodder

After the system files, you're left with less than what the HDD is labeled. I think it's about 5 to 10% of the HDD is used for system data.

What does any hard drive do?

The big difference with the xbox one is that it is horribly over priced and that it is nowhere near 20gb - I think mine can with 12gb

angryfodder

basically, it's like a memory card on steroids. Oh yeah and angry is right, the 20 gb is really only 14 gb, I'll bet that the 60 gb is only like 52 gb and the 120 is maybe 114 or something.

oh and you can put full retail games on there as well:

Xbox: Can only do this by purchasing select titles under the Xbox Originals section of the Games store.

Xbox 360: After the New Xbox Experience (the next big (system) update - which actually is stored on the console itself, NOT the hard drive (that only stores game updates)) is installed, you can install any retail game to the hard disk. This results in a decrese in load times, less overheating, the DVD drive won't spin, among other things. You must have the disc in the drive to play, though.

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What does any hard drive do?

The big difference with the xbox one is that it is horribly over priced and that it is nowhere near 20gb - I think mine can with 12gb

grafkhun

basically, it's like a memory card on steroids. Oh yeah and angry is right, the 20 gb is really only 14 gb, I'll bet that the 60 gb is only like 52 gb and the 120 is maybe 114 or something.

all hard drives are like that. a 500gb hard drive isn't really 500gigs, may be like 460gb or somethin