greenmedic88 said:
Vetteman94 said:
greenmedic88 said:
Vetteman94 said:
I dont see how is it that expensive? it comes with a data transfer kit, which makes transfering data easy. Its not easy to do this on a PS3, I know, I've done it 3 times already. The small addtional cost for, the hassle free experience of the data transfer, alone makes it worth it. Plus it literally takes 5 seconds to uninstall the old one and install the new one. Again hassle free.
Stop making a big deal out of nothing. Microsoft made it easy on the everyday consumer to swap out HDs, and for that convienence you will pay a little more for it. I for one see no problem with that |
And there you have it: a logical reason for paying a premium for a proprietary HDD.
Personally, I'd rather pay a lot less for twice the storage space, even at the cost of a chunk of idle time required to back up and restore data, but the MS method is the least painless for its premium cost.
Maybe the only complaint should be why MS didn't just skip selling the same size drive available in bundles and just sell 500GB drives instead. Of course that would only reduce the perceived value of 250GB SKU bundles and a lot more consumers would likely do the "build your own" $199 Arcade + $129 500GB HDD.
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Exactly, plus there is a hidden cost for the PS3 way of doing it. The cost of the backup source. My 8GB flash drive was not big enough for my back file the last 2 times I swapped out a PS3 HDD. I had to go buy an external HDD, that cost me about $80. Otherwise I would have had to delete everything on my hard drive and re download everything.
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The PS3 option is for those who can use a screwdriver and have an external HDD, assuming they want to back up their entire drive, which isn't necessary.
If you go off the minimum, game saves are the only thing you'd need to back up. PSN games would be the second thing, which can always be downloaded again. Backing up demos seems a bit anal, and as for media; you'd generally have to do that for any media stored on any computer if you didn't want to risk losing it. Beyond that, the only real headache you save yourself with a full back up is the process of reinstalling any of your games.
But the external HDD can be used for other things when you're done transferring. The only value left in an Xbox 360 HDD after it's been upgraded is whatever you can sell it for on Ebay.
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Its not necessary, that is true, but for someone like myself that has bought about 40 PSN games and all 20+ episodes of Qore, plus all of the DLC I have bought for each of my 75+ bluray games. Being able to transfer everything easily can be bliss. Because it saves the hassle of spending the next 3-5 days re downloading and reinstalling everything again.
And just having an external HDD isnt good enough, it needs to be the correct format, the PS3 wont read it otherwise. So if you have been using it for other things, and its not in the correct format, you will either have to reformat the external HDD or setup a partition. The latter is pretty easy but probably not that easy to do for the average consumer who "knows how to use a screwdriver".
