Anyone purchased one? I'm looking at these two:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-320GB-320G- ... 51a61322aa

I don't know if it's of any quality, but I don't know the maker of the $120 + dollar one in the stores either. I like that it actually says "xbox 360" It doesn't say that it isn't the actual picture.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/NEW-320GB-320G- ... 3f15149fb0

This one will get to me much sooner, but I don't like the generic packaging, looks less reliable to me.

It's just a SATA 2.5'' drive with bulky packaging...same as the old format ones. Screw the overpriced ones and buy your own drive, slap it in the case, and you're set. Heck...unlike the old ones it even uses the standard SATA connectors. Forget the case. Just plug it into the console and go. Google around for compatibility before you buy, though: I know the Xbox only agrees with drives of certain capacities and manufacture.

Even the old ones were just a SATA drive with an adapter. I took mine apart and slid it into my new Xbox until I could get a thumb drive to transfer my crap with. Good thing is the new Xbox has direct SATA attachment. However, if you're using an undersized HDD, use the Xbox in the vertical orientation, because laying it down will put a ton of stress on the SATA connector in the Xbox. I'm sure someone is gonna come out with a caddy for the drives soon. (that is, if you don't want to disassemble your current HDD)

MinisterofDOOM wrote:It's just a SATA 2.5'' drive with bulky packaging...same as the old format ones. Screw the overpriced ones and buy your own drive, slap it in the case, and you're set. Heck...unlike the old ones it even uses the standard SATA connectors. Forget the case. Just plug it into the console and go. Google around for compatibility before you buy, though: I know the Xbox only agrees with drives of certain capacities and manufacture.

I searched some 2.5in sata drives at best buy and haven't come up with anything better priced than the links I provided. Equally priced though, and common names hitachi and toshiba and 320gb.
Should I get one from best buy or buy from ebay? Sounds like they might be the same, just bulky packaging like you stated.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145584

It's ~$65 but it's 1TB. More memory.

I don't think you can stick just any size HDD in a 360. Unless these latest versions have changed something (and I don't think they have, as firmware is still the same across the board to my knowledge) the console only accepts hard drives in sizes that officially exist. This frustrated modders early on, since they couldn't just drop a 500GB drive in one and call it a day. When the 250GB special editions finally started hitting, everyone was overjoyed because they could finally mod halfway-decent-sized drives into their 360s.

2TB is the max tested successfully. The new ones don't have limits TMK.

EDIT:

Just did a little more digging, and I think that guy was modded in some way. Oh well. I think it has to be Western Digital and a size that Microsoft originally offered, unless you want to hack some stuff.

NICE! Kinda makes me almost consider picking up a 4GB with their current pricing. The 4GB ones have the nicer matte finish, so even if I wasn't replacing my hard drive right off the bat, I'd go with the cheap model.

Edited other post.

I agree that the 4GB has a better finish, because it won't show damned fingerprints.

RCA wrote:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6822145584

It's ~$65 but it's 1TB. More memory.

Ordered the former last night before this post, been so long since I've ordered from newegg I forgot about them. Thanks anyway guys.

Arrived today, Just as described (no foreign language on the packaging or any reason to believe it's a knock off). Only took a week, pretty impressive coming from China