I recently got a 360 basically for free since it had RRoD. But tonight, I followed some guides, did the penny trick, and got it fully working . Now the problem arises that I need some storage. I'm keeping this one because my brother has to be allowed to play at his own will in another room in my house, so I now have one specifically for my room. I have a HDD for it already, but it probably has to stay with the other system. I need a hard drive because I basically have every car pack for Forza 3. Micro Center has some refurb drives decently cheap, and Game Stop has the same drive for the same price. And a little off topic, I don't need that grey mesh panel on top for the drive to connect fine right? Cus I don't have it

 

I would say, get the smallest, cheapest refurb drive you can, and then do the DIY upgrade to increase the capacity.

I did this: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=660096
And it worked just fine to move me up from 20 to 120.
The 120 Gb drive we used is discontinued, though.

This page: http://www.diy-guides.com/upgrade-yo...inexpensively/
has similar instructions to install a 250gb drive.

Side note: if/when your Xbox RRods, you don't send in your hard drive. So this doesn't void any warranties.
I had to send mine in post-hard drive swap.

- Frank

 

Amamzon.com has generic HDs for cheap! A 120g can be had for about $50! or cheaper!

The only downside is they don't work with backward compatible games. Obvious that some company is doing what ChodTheWacko did; buying the WD HD and flashing it.

Thinking about getting one! I got the 20g, but keep telling myself that its enough for me.

 

I just went to Micro Center and got the 20GB refurb. I have a few 160GB laptop HDDs layin around, but i think 20GB is fine. now all i need is a little trim piece and a new disc drive (wont open on its own) and I got a working xbox for next to nothing

 

I just got a refurb last night, $110 after tax. So far so good and it's an 08' model with the hdmi output.

 

Side note - You can't use any hard drive.

The xbox is programmed to only recognize certain drive models.
The process basically takes a similar hard drive, and flashes the 'correct' firmware over it so the xbox can't tell you have a different drive.

Hard drives are relatively cheap. 20Gb isn't that much to be honest. Formatted it's a fair amount less. Add DLC and copying discs to play off the hard disk (which I recommend - the dvd drive is NOISY), and it fills up fast.

- Frank