(Tips & tutorial on upgrading the Xbox 360 Slim 4G with a cheap 2.5 laptop drive – particularly to those who bought the 4G console in Singapore)
note: this is not for the faint of heart. it will get quite technical.
oh! and use at your own risk)
Out of a whim, i just got myself a new Xbox 360-Slim 4G Kinect bundle!
(And yes, that just killed what ever budget i have planned for my supposed small-form-factor PC gaming rig i have been daydreaming about)
Anyhow, i got the 4G version, not the 250G bundle. 4 Gigabytes (actually just around 3Gb) is fine for game saves and all but once you start downloading apps and game demos on the Xbox (like i did, the very day i got the console) – you’d know that it’s just not enough.
The official Xbox drive sells at around S$150~200. You can get it at 250 or 320Gb versions. That’s quite a hefty price for me. Thankfully, i found 2 alternatives: buy a cheaper ‘compatible’ Xbox drive (not the official Microsoft drive) or buy a much cheaper 2.5 (laptop) drive and set it up as an Xbox drive. We’ll we know which route i took.
(this post will probably be moot soon enough with the new Xbox coming out, but a friend ask me for details)
