If you've filled your hard drive to the rafters (as we have), news of a beefier 320GB hard drive, will come as a pleasant surprise in time for your Christmas haul/wishlist. Priced at £79.99 ($129.99 in the US), the drive comes with a download code for Lego Star Wars 3: The Clone Wars, too.
The announcement is a further reminder of this console generation's protracted cycle, which has seen a rise in multimedia downloads and content, and a move towards bigger XBLA game downloads. It's set to debut in the US late October, with no date pinned down - yet - for other territories.
Source: CVG
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3Looking at Microsoft's HDD pricing strategy so far, I was afraid it was going to cost like eight thousand dollars.
$130US is still too high though.
I don't think they would have sold it for eight thousand. Something tells me they'd sell no units.
And seeing as you can buy a couple terrabytes external memory for the same price, I agree with you there.
Considering I spent less than that for 2TB drives *last summer*, that's definitely overpriced.
I haven't kept track of their latest offerings, but if they stick with WD drives, Newegg has WD Scorpios (Black & Blue) for as little as $54.99. Add another ~$10 for the case & packaging, and you're at at a whopping $65. That's one hell of a markup for a special "security sector", which is the only thing that differentiates a Microsoft drive from an OEM drive.