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360 hard drive - a third smaller than advertised? - console|
| (hx) 03:40 AM CET - Dec,09 2005 | GamesRadar is reporting that Xbox 360's owners can never access more than
13GB of storage space - just two thirds of the stated size. Obviously some space
will always be required by the operating system, as true of everything from
iPods to desktop computers, but it's rarely such a high proportion. While
there's no doubt that 360s hard drive is indeed the claimed size, its effective,
usable capacity is actually only 65% of that. This could become more problematic
as large files, such as high-definition movies, become more common. Out of the
box, Xbox 360 has only 12GB of free space, but it's possible to free another
gigabyte by deleting the demo movies and music.
In Xbox 360 related news,
TeamXbox has directions on "How to Avoid Your Xbox 360 From Scratching Your
Discs.":
After many Xbox 360 owners reported scratched discs as a result of tilting
their consoles between the horizontal and vertical positions, the guys at
Llama.com decided to run an investigation.
They painted the whole black laser assembly housing with a silver grey pen,
reassembled the drive and did the tilt-the-console-while-it-is-working trick
using a copy of Quake 4. After hearing that spooky scratching sound, they once
again disassembled the drive to find out what causes the scratches. The
following picture shows exactly the areas that produce the scratches.
So there you have it. Switch your Xbox 360 between vertical and horizontal
position while playing a disc and rest assured that disc won't work again. As
Llama points out, Microsoft does indeed warn about this in the Volume 1: Setup
of the manual that comes with the Xbox 360: "Remove discs before moving the
console or tilting it between the horizontal and vertical positions."
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