New Xbox 360 Model Possibly Revealed

[greenmedic88]

adajio said:

greenmedic88 said:
1TB 2.5" SATA drives don't even exist yet. This is whimsical castle building in the sky at its best. The 1TB WD drive listed in the Overstock link is a 3.5" drive being marketed as a "laptop drive."

Well, a 1 TB drive isn't completely out of the question...
http://www.engadget.com/2009/07/27/wd-ships-industrys-first-2-5-inch-1tb-hard-drive/

I still don't think it'd happen though.

The 1TB 2.5" x 12.5mm drives list for $249, not including the obligatory MS peripheral tax if such a drive were used (over $299 minimum). Again this is wishful thinking to say that they'll be used by the Xbox.

While MS could easily design a new HDD caddy thanks to the clip on design to accomodate the three platter, non 9.5mm standard drive size (developer kits have a larger clip on unit), unless the price of those drives can be cut in half by next year and MS decides to equally axe their Xbox peripheral tax, I don't see 1TB peripheral drives being sold at a bare minimum $199 even by late 2010. Considering that the base 360 may well be priced at $150 by late 2010, pricing a drive well above the console itself goes beyond unlikely; more like between highly improbable and impossible.

You may as well say that because $700 250GB SSD drives are being manufactured that they will or should be used in the Xbox too.