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Hard Drive Price is Fair Says Microsoft
>> From next-gen.biz:
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Microsoft's Aaron Greenberg has been defending the price of its $180 120 Gig hard drive for Xbox 360, from consumer criticism that it is too expensive.
Speaking to weekly podcast Game Theory he said, "We know it is expensive and we have definitely heard that feedback but it is a little apples and oranges to compare it to internal PC hard drives because those are off the shelf drives that you have to install yourself. You have to format those and figure out how you are going to move your content over. There is a lot of work there for your average consumer it is not a plug in and play experience for them."
"What we have done is release a smaller laptop size drive. If you compare what we are offering with a real plug-and-play drive the closest thing would be to take a 120 gig self-powered external PC drive and in that case we are seeing those retail at anywhere from $160 to $200 for comparable laptop sized external hard drives."
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Anyway, those who don't want to pay Microsoft's 'premium' price will probably be able to install their own 120gb Western Digital SATA BEVS HDD using TheSpecialists HDDHackr(info) tool with the 'sector 16' taken from an original 120GB Xbox360 HDD.
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