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cunger on 06 May 2013

Hi all,

I am a Wiiu owner who loves his wiiu and looking forward to more games but I'm gonna be picking up an xbox to fill in the gaps right now.  Just wondering if there is anything majorly wrong with buying a TypeS 4gb Xbox 360?  I mean..  if i need more space i can add usb thumb drives.  Is there anything I can't store on the usb thumb drive like games or dlc? And if I can put games or dlc on a thumbdrive am i able to actually play games of the thumb drive or just store the games there?

Thanks so much!



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ironmanDX on 06 May 2013

You can add A 16gb USB Flash drive, not sure if it has to be official or not though. I doubt it so after a quick google I found this official on Amazon. If you decided to dig deeper you'd find out more for less prices I'm sure.

http://www.amazon.com/Xbox-360-Flash-SanDisk-SDCZGXB-016G-A11/dp/B003EV7ED8



cunger on 06 May 2013

Thanks! I'm really looking forward to playing bioshock infinite and Metal Gear Rising.



smroadkill15 on 06 May 2013

What I would do is buy a cheap 4gb Xbox online then buy a hard drive for it separately. Much cheaper that way. You can get a 250gb harddrive for under $50 easy. Or you can wait a little bit for a price drop that will probably be within the next few months.



snyps on 06 May 2013

nothing wrong with that. i had to google to make sure type S wasnt the white model.



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cunger on 06 May 2013
smroadkill15 said:
What I would do is buy a cheap 4gb Xbox online then buy a hard drive for it separately. Much cheaper that way. You can get a 250gb harddrive for under $50 easy. Or you can wait a little bit for a price drop that will probably be within the next few months.


Is the right harddrive easy to find and install?



cunger on 06 May 2013

BTW.. I found some sucker locally who is selling his 4gb xbox 360 with a bunch of sellable games like blops2, nhl 13, and skyrim for just $200 OBO.. If i can get it for 180 and sell the games that come with it for $100 dollars I get an $80 xbox.. nah mean?



Stinky on 06 May 2013

Any USB drive can have the limited size xbox section on it, 32G per drive, two drives at once. It's worth having the HDD for installs. You can play video and music from any size HDD, or ipod for that matter.



Mr Puggsly on 06 May 2013
cunger said:
smroadkill15 said:
What I would do is buy a cheap 4gb Xbox online then buy a hard drive for it separately. Much cheaper that way. You can get a 250gb harddrive for under $50 easy. Or you can wait a little bit for a price drop that will probably be within the next few months.


Is the right harddrive easy to find and install?

You can find a 360 hard drive on Amazon for about $50.

Personally, I just use two 32GB USB sticks for stroage. They were $20 a piece and plenty of space to work with unless you're installing a bunch of disc games at once.



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JimmyDanger on 06 May 2013

News Flash (drive) - 32 GB USB sticks also compatible for installs/dlc now!

re: restrictions too USB stick use - No hard or fast ones. Most everything dlc/installs will run from a USB stick, there's no limit to how many you can have, although the system will only recognize two plugged in at any one time (and a USB hub may count as one). I know some titles have restrictions as to how you can transfer the data, eg I remember some of the save data (DOAX2 for example, as they don't want "patches" from mods "embarrassing" their girls, so to speak) - but those are few and far between - I only know of that one.

That said, a 320gb hdd runs pretty cheap compared to the cost of USB sticks - but if you don't plan on heavy downloading a ton of stuff, USB sticks do fine! Most of my installs run off USB and I don't have any problems. Though make sure you use high speed ones, as performance increases greatly.