Would a 500GB drive be supported and for all intents and purposes work well? I've had a 200GB drive for a while now and need more space as it's filled to bursting. If any of you have this setup, I'd also be interested in knowing about how many gigs E,F, and G format to. Do F and G just expand to forever, or do you have to create an H or something?
Oh yeah, and I don't think there are but--ARE there any internal HD's over 500GB? That's the largest I was able to find on Newegg, but if any larger exist, it'd be nice to know now...
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Anonymous2006-03-23 2:49
Why in the hell would you use a perfect 500GB hard drive on a fucking xbox?
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Anonymous2006-03-23 4:59
It's a hell of a Media Center. It's convenient to be able to bring damn near my entire collection of shows, movies, games, emus and music with me wherever I go. Simple as that. Yeah, I hated on the Xbox harder than anyone back in the day, but I can't deny it, it's become a staple of my living room.
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Anonymous2006-03-23 5:20
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Seconded. It's like portable fucking VLC. Once mine even played a video that VLC itself refused to handle properly. Good shit.
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Anonymous2006-03-23 5:23
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Plus, damn near everything I download nowadays goes stright to my Xbox anyway--I'd much rather watch my shit, listen to my mp3's, and play my roms on a huge TV with soundsystem than a tiny computer monitor and crapass speakers. There is simply no reason for me to have a 500GB drive in my computer nowadays. It'd be feasible to stream media from it, I guess, but that kinda ruins the whole portability aspect. I stand by my decision :/
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Anonymous2006-03-23 11:26
Most big TVs are low rez. And most computer speakers are crap ass indeed because they are made of huge subwoofer, tiny joke satellites, and unbalance. People hears them at stores with shitty music and they think they sound good. Then you bring them home, play some real music or a movie, and they're lame.
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Anonymous2006-03-23 14:45
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I don't have an HDTV, but I've got a pretty nice flatscreen. I'd say the slight hit it takes in quality is worth it. I hate crouching over my monitor to watch shit, I'd rather sit back and relax on the couch. I rarely notice with videos; the only annoyance really is roms, which look blurrier than I'd like (I'm a Simple2x kinda guy--I love pixel-perfect emulation).
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Anonymous2006-03-23 16:03
>>7 I've got a pretty nice flatscreen
But that's 640×480... I don't really understand people. I'm the 800×600 / 1024×768 middle ground bastard. Some gamers won't give a damn about resolution when playing on a TV. Some other gamers will want the game run at 1600×1200 even though they can't possibly notice jaggies at much less like 1280×960, just because it's l33t, and this forces them to play with low detail settings. Never understood either extremes, although I'm more leaning towards lower res with antialiasing and more impressive effects.
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Anonymous2006-03-23 16:19
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Indeed. And the other upshot to using my TV instead is that I don't want to shell out ~$80 or so for the X2VGA adapter, and I *do* like to play the occasional Xbox game. Also, my computer is far too shitty to handle most modern PC games as well so I subsist mostly on Xbox ports of them. It's how I got to play games like Half Life 2, Doom 3, and Max Payne 2.