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Microsoft's Xbox 360 HDD workaround: buy another
>> From gamersreports.com in an interview with Aaron Greenberg, Xbox's Group Product Marketing Manager:
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* GR: So this is a tough question, but you've got 13 gigs on that drive, how are users going to manage that?
* Greenberg: The way the drive works today, you can store about 15 hours of standard definition content and about 5 hours of hi-def content. And hey, we realize that for some users that's going to fill up pretty quickly. The movies are designed so that you watch them and then delete them, so we figure those aren't really something that's going to take up space. With TV shows, if you ever have to delete one, you can always re-download it again. So as much as we can, we're trying to work within the space confinements. With that said, we realize that the XBOX 360, because it is the only console on the market with a removable hard drive, gives us some flexibility over time. Right now we're obviously not announcing anything, but in the future we do have the ability to grow and expand in that area.
* GR: I know you guys can't talk about future products, but are you guys working on something so that existing users can get a bigger drive without having to get rid of any game saves, demos or other content?
* Greenberg: You know what, I don't know. At this point we're not ready yet to roll out a bigger hard drive. I can tell you what people tell me they do to get around this. What they do is they put their Live account on a memory unit and then they have one hard drive that they put their games or related content on, and then they have another drive that they put their movies and TV on. So you know, this isn't ideal, but there's some ways to work around that today. If you download the content on one hard drive, and save your Live account on the memory unit, you can still have your hard drives hold all the content. That's not a perfect workaround, but there's some flexibility that people can do.
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Read the whole interview on gamersreports.com.
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