Note to Aaron Greenberg: 120GB drive aint a good deal
April 4th, 2007 | by Justin Nolan |Dear Aaron,
You must think the gaming community is idiots, since you keep trying to justify the price of the 120GB by comparing it to external self powered PC drives.
If you compare what we are offering with a real plug-and-play drive the closest thing would be to take a 120 gig self-powered external PC drive and in that case we are seeing those retail at anywhere from $160 to $200 for comparable laptop sized external hard drives.
Well, for the sake of argument I did a quick search on Newegg for “120GB external” and the first match is this drive. It is 5400RPM (same as the 360 HDD), self powered, “pre-formatted,” and even has a one-touch OS backup feature. There goes your “you have to format those and figure out how you are going to move your content over” argument.
Oh, and did I mention this drive is HALF the price of the Xbox 360 120GB drive?
Seriously, anyway you try to spin it, the 120GB drive is a ripoff. Just because there are other overpriced drives on the market, doesn’t mean we are dumb enough to buy one. If you want to throw us a bone, how about release a drive bay in the form factor of the current drive, and allow us to swap in our own internal 2.5″ drive (ala PS3).
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5 Responses to “Note to Aaron Greenberg: 120GB drive aint a good deal”
By Dr Dmoney on Apr 4, 2007 | Reply
Justin has a point but he left one thing out. Computer parts are cheaper because they are meant for computers. Hard drives are something that both can use however the brand name has a good something to do with it and they way it was designed. Aaron also said it was a notebook external sized. That is ruffly a 500gb hard drive for a regularly 3.5 sized one. (It is because they have to micro size it.) Also one more thing is that the price of the 180gb hard drive is fare compared to the 20gb. You really have to think about that.
I really have to say:
All externally hard drives are is internal drives with a converting cord from serial ata to usb 2.0. It is a shame that it is that way.
By Justin Nolan on Apr 4, 2007 | Reply
The external drive I linked to IS an external 2.5″ notebook drive!
By Dr Dmoney on Apr 5, 2007 | Reply
Yeah, I see… I thought it could be. But I wouldn’t blame the xbox department at all. Blame M$. Just look at vista and how expensive that is. $400 for the good version. You see what I am doing is selling my XBox 360 for $300 so I can get the Elite. I think it is worth it, getting a new blck Xbox (also hdmi) plus the 120gb hardrive. I really don’t know how to tell you M4 wants money. It is really hard to say what expense is the Harddrive, but 120gb will be a good trhing to have is you play alot online. Unlike you justin I acutally get online. Not to be mean, becasue you have alot to do beside play games. Sorry for all the sp errors, On a crappy school pc and don’t feally like taking an hour.
By Christipher on Apr 5, 2007 | Reply
Is there a external hard drive that will work with the usb hookup?
By Cueil on May 3, 2007 | Reply
to be fair there is content on the drive as well so that cost money as well and lets not forget that Microsoft has to pay Nvidia for the license on their emulation technology and I’m sure that’s passed on witht he HDD since only those with a HDD can play Xbox 1 games.