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512MB memory unit coming to XBOX 360

Submitted by rapture on Tue, 03/06/2007 - 9:28am.

Just when our 20GB hard drives are near full of game demos, HD movies and TV shows, music, and gamesaves, Microsoft goes out an makes a 512MB memory unit for the XBOX 360. It costs $50, comes with Geometry Wars pre-loaded, and will plug into one of the memory unit slots on the front of the XBOX 360.

What's the selling point for this 512MB device? Who would buy it?

Is this geared for Core system users that think $100 for a 20GB hard drive is too much money?

Where are our mass storage devices for the XBOX360? How big is that free HD episode of SouthPark going to be? How many demos am I going to have to delete just to have room for this 30-minute episode?

And why can't Microsoft allow us to use network storage devices with our XBOX 360. We can already do it for sharing music, movies, and pictures from our PCs to our XBOX 360s. Why can't we do it with gamesaves and demos?

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The only thing that excites

The only thing that excites me about the new MU is the drop in price of the old MU. I'd like to have one for LANs to load my XBL profile onto and save myself from recovering my gamertag and re-entering my settings.

BTW, the gamer profile setting that automatically inverts/non-inverts your profile is uber-sweet. Has probably saved me a few hours over the past 1.5 years.

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What I'm still concerned

What I'm still concerned about is how we're going to transfer stuff from our 20GB HDDs to our (unannounced) 100GB HDDs. I've already devised a system in my head where you are able to upload everything from your 20GB HDD to servers on XBL, then re-download it all back onto your 100GB HDD.

I'm unaffected by a new MU. I need a new HDD.

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If they put an external USB

If they put an external USB port on the bigger HDD you could copy the data via USB.

I can't forsee MS committing to the bandwidth and storage requirements of potentially allowing every XBL Gold account to store 20 GB of data on their servers at an unknown time.

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There are other ways to cope.

The XSATA device allows you store memory on your PC as well as on your Xbox 360. Not only does that, it's aesthetically attractive, compatible with Xplorer 360, and you can send any file you want over the internet that isn't attached to your Live account to your friends so they can use it, too. In my opinion, that's awesometastic.

Although it's a shame Microsoft didn't allow people to store memory on their PCs from the 360, I'd be more upset about the fact that twenty gigabytes is worthy of being disrespected compared to some PC hard drives that store over 300 GB.

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